Volunteer Story

25.09.2017 14:30:00

My name is David Jordan and I have been volunteering with migrants and refugees along the Balkan route for ten months. I have spent time in Greece, Serbia, and Macedonia volunteering both inside official camps and with those who prefer irregular migration outside official camps.

Unlawful death of refugees and migrants Note by the Secretary-General

22.09.2017 14:00:00

The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the report of the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, submitted in accordance with Assembly resolution 71/198.

Smugglers make test runs with migrants across even more deadly Black Sea route

13.09.2017 10:30:00

Rise in boats intercepted by Romanian coastguard fuels fears that smugglers are trying to reactivate dangerous transit passage to Europe

Human Suffering Inside Libya’s migrant detention centres

05.09.2017 14:00:00

For more than a year, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing medical care to refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants held inside Tripoli detention centres in conditions that are neither humane nor dignified.

Indonesia FM to urge Myanmar to halt Rohingya violence

04.09.2017 11:30:00

Foreign minister deployed to hold 'intensive communications' as anger grows in world's most populous Muslim nation.

1,190 new refugees arrive in 5 days. Does Erdogan let EU-Turkey deal go burst?

28.08.2017 17:00:00

Does President Recep Tayyip Erdogan let the EU-Turkey deal on migration go burst? A significant increase in the number of refugees and migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey has been recorded in the last six days.

Sweden rejects asylum application from world's oldest refugee aged 106

25.08.2017 16:00:00

Sweden rejects asylum application from world's oldest refugee aged 106. The 106-year-old has had her application for asylum rejected. Bibihal Uzbeki fled Afghanistan for Sweden via Iran, Turkey and Greece. If another country doesn't offer her refuge, she will have to return to Afghanistan.

To serve as a reminder: Legis - Declaring an emergency situation at the borders is unnecessary and inadequate

24.08.2017 14:00:00

Skopje, 21 August, 2015 - 11:39 (META) Declaring a crisis and ordering army soldiers to the southern and northern borders is too early for a situation that can be helped through a better organization by the government, comment experts on the decision of the government to heighten control at...

Do not use refugees for political purposes

23.08.2017 14:00:00

The refugee question is one of the many attempts to shift the focus of the Macedonian public from the real political issues.

Volunteer Story

19.08.2017 14:00:00

My name is Ema Pochat Križaj. I am half-Slovenian, half-French from Luxembourg. I am 18 years old and studying political science in France at Sciences Po Paris.

Refugee dubbed ‘the little Picasso’ to hold first art exhibition – to raise money for sick Serbian boy

14.08.2017 14:30:00

Having fled Afghanistan, Farhad Nouri has been living in a refugee camp for the past eight months. Drawing not only comforts him but has given him an opportunity to save a little boy's life, reports Emily Goddard

The parties should not abuse the refugee question

10.08.2017 14:30:00

In Macedonia, there used to be a fair policy regarding refugees, they were not used for political arguments and that level of ethics and policy should be maintained, representatives of CSOs say after the political parties have been accusing one another of the new Refugee Strategy.

Volunteer Story

08.08.2017 14:30:00

My name is Joshua Gordon, currently a postgraduate student at the University College London (UCL) in International Public Policy. I am passionate about all things political and making a difference in individual people’s lives. In my downtime, I enjoy the outdoors, traveling and experiencing...

No more separations of families!

03.08.2017 13:38:00

Refugees in Greece are waiting for indefinite periods for their family reunification to Germany. PRO ASYL and Refugee Support Aegean (RSA) are calling for an end to be put to the suffering of more than two thousand refugees who are stuck in Greece while waiting to be reunited with their family...

The happy end of another refugee story

25.07.2017 15:01:00

Some would say that it is against the principles to get attached to your clients, but they never were clients. They did not represent some work to us, but people whom we as people had to help, as we would expect the same if we found ourselves in the same situation, and that would continue in the...

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