News Selection – Migration

27/2/2019: How we treat Venezuelans in exile will shape the future trajectory of their country and the wider region. The international community has been slow to follow the Colombian government's progressive stance.

Source: IRIN

19/2/2019: New data released by the UN Refugee Agency shows that, despite record levels of worldwide forced displacement, just 4.7% of global refugee resettlement needs were met in 2018.

Source: UN Refugee Agency

11/2/2019: The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement were launched 21 years ago yet people displaced within their own countries – whether by conflict or disaster – often struggle for the same recognition and protections afforded to refugees. Source: IRIN

12/2/2019: A study has found that migrant labor from within the European Union will fall short of the economy's needs. To plug the gap, Germany will need 146,000 workers per year from non-EU countries. Source: DW

30/1/2019: Refugees and migrants attempting to reach Europe via the Mediterranean Sea lost their lives at an alarming rate in 2018, as cuts in search and rescue operations reinforced its position as the world’s deadliest sea crossing. Source: The UN Refugee Agency

25/1/2019: The UN's Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has accused the government of not working to create conditions suitable for the return of the Rohingya refugees. Source: UN News

24/1/2019: Even after living in Kenya's Dadaab complex for almost three decades, refugees are not allowed to work or live outside the camps. A Somali journalist who was brought up there recounts the recent history of Dadaab.

Source: IRIN

23/1/2019: Canada resettled just under 30,000 refugees in 2018 — slightly exceeding the number of those resettled by countries in the European Union, and a few thousand more than those resettled by the United States, putting Canada in a historic lead. Source: The Star Edmonton

21/1/2019: Support for Libya's Coast Guard by the EU and Italy contributes significantly to the interception of migrants and asylum seekers and their subsequent detention in arbitrary, abusive detention in Libya, according to a Human Rights Watch report.

Source: Human Rights Watch

18/1/2019: Amnesty has condemned the outsourcing of European border control to the Libyan authorities which, in combination with a system which fails to share responsibility for asylum-seekers fairly across Europe, has denied asylum-seekers their rights. Source: Amnesty International