Member states will be bound to take their share of 160,000 asylum seekers under a new plan unveiled by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. [caption id="attachment_4522" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EC addresses members of the...
Have you ever wondered how four decades of global movement sounds? Applying refugee data from the United Nations from 1975 to 2012, Brian Foo, going by the name of "Data Driven DJ", shows the development of people on the move, using sound. [embed]https://vimeo.com/132833445[/embed] His piece was inspired by The Refugee Project, an...
Germany can deal with half a million asylum seekers each year for some years, the country's Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said. [caption id="attachment_4503" align="alignnone" width="1005"] Germany's Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel[/caption] "I believe we could certainly deal with something in the order of a half-milllion for a few years," he...
One hundred and eighty thee bodies were recovered form the shores of the coastal town of Zuwara in the wake of a tragedy that saw a boat with some 450 people capsize around five miles off shore last week. [caption id="attachment_4499" align="aligncenter" width="1143"] Dozens of body bags...
Pope Francis has launched an appeal to all European parishes and religious communities to take in one family of refugees each in a gesture of solidarity. "I appeal to the parishes, the religious communities, the monasteries and sanctuaries of all Europe to ...
Search and rescue charity MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) has received more than €1 million in donations from all over the world in the past 48 hours. [caption id="attachment_4472" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Eritrean children rescued in MOAS's latest mission in the Mediterranean. Photo: MOAS[/caption] Since heartbreaking photos...
Munich gave a warm welcome to the first group of asylum seekers who challenged the Hungarian blockade and journeyed across Austria to reach their target destination. Photo: Hundreds of asylum seekers decided to set out to the Austrian border on foot forcing Hungarian authorities to reconsider their position...
Aylan Kurdi, the little Syrian-Kurdish boy who was found washed up on a Turkish beach has been laid to rest with his five-year-old brother Galip and his mother Rehan. [caption id="attachment_4479" align="alignnone" width="700"] Aylan Kurdi, 3, and his five-year-old brother Galip. The image of Aylan's body lying...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban let the cat out of the bag as he defended his recent treatment of asylum seekers at a testy news conference that included European Parliament president Martin Schulz, who happens to be German, and European Council leader Donald Tusk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7u0EWNkBc There’s just one...
Over the past 24 hours The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), a private-funded NGO borne out of the desire to stop the unnecessary deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean, received more than €250,000 in donations. The people who run it attribute the surge, which dwarfs anything...