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Refugees and migrants face rising dangers

Agence France-PresseMay 22, 2013 23:45
The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said Thursday, as it highlighted the plight of millions of Syrians forced to flee their homes in its yearly report on global human rights. The London-based rights group said millions of people who have fled conflict or persecution, and migrants who have left home in search of work, have suffered abuses at the hands of state authorities or employers.

Fourteen Iran exiles head for new life in Albania

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 22:30
Fourteen Iranian opposition members have left a former US military base in Iraq heading for Albania as part of UN attempts to resettle hundreds of exiles, a US official said Thursday. Tirana has offered to resettle some 210 members of the People's Muhajedeen of Iran, or Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) currently housed among about 3,000 people in Camp Liberty, near Baghdad. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the first 14 residents had left Wednesday "for permanent relocation in Albania."

Ogata seeks greater international support for human security at U.N.

Kyodo News InternationalMay 8, 2013 21:45
Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata at a high-level meeting Wednesday called for greater support from the international community for some of the world's most vulnerable people, including those threatened by internal violence, health pandemics and climate change.

Australian gov't to investigate asylum seeker boat arrival

April 10, 2013 16:48
Australian government will investigate how a boat full of asylum seekers from Sri Lanka managed to make it to the West Australian port of Geraldton without being detected by border patrol authorities, Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said Wednesday.A boat carrying more than 60 asylum seekers has arrived in the port city of Geraldton in the Mid West region of Western Australia, local media reported Tuesday.Geraldton is the usual destination of asylum seekers heading for Australia, located 2,240 kilometers south of an offshore detention center for asylum seekers in Christmas I

Myanmar Muslims kill 8 Buddhists in Indonesian centre

April 5, 2013 02:00
A group of Myanmar Muslims beat eight Buddhists to death at an Indonesian detention centre Friday after they heard about communal violence in their homeland, police said. The Muslims attacked the Buddhists, also from Myanmar, in the early hours at the Belawan Port immigration detention centre in North Sumatra province, said local police chief Endro Kiswanto. It began after the detainees learnt of recent Buddhist-Muslim violence in Myanmar which has left at least 43 people dead and many Muslim homes and mosques destroyed, he said.

URGENT ¥¥¥ 42 die in fire at Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand: official

March 23, 2013 00:00
At least 42 people died and dozens were injured in a fire at a camp for Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand, the provincial governor said Saturday giving an updated toll. "The latest death toll we can confirm through military walkie-talkies is 42," Mae Hong Son provincial governor Narumol Paravat told AFP by telephone, adding the toll from Friday's blaze was likely to rise further as rescue workers search the area. ask-dla/mtp/jms

March 22, 2013 23:45
Death toll rises to 42 in fire at Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand: official ask-dla/mtp/jms

March 22, 2013 10:31
30 dead in fire at camp for Myanmar refugees in Thailand: officials ask/dr/jms

March 21, 2013 04:15
Death toll in Pakistan refugee camp bombing rises to 12: officials str-mmg/ac

Thousands of Malians return to liberated city: NGO

March 14, 2013 14:01
Thousands of people who fled when Islamists attacked the largest city in Mali's war-torn north have returned, a survey by a local charity working to resettle refugees told AFP on Thursday. Tassaght said a study of returning refugees and internally displaced people indicated that 5,800 residents who fled the occupation by Al Qaeda-linked Islamists had come home, most after Gao was liberated in late January. The survey, which took the form of a questionnaire to returning residents, showed that "their primary needs are food", Tassaght head Almahadi Ag Akeratane told AFP.
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