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27/4/2022: The Nationality and Borders Bill approved by the UK Parliament will relegate the status of refugees, according to the head of the UN Refugee Agency. Filippo Grandi warns that the potential to deny refugees their right to seek asylum in the UK is potentially at variance with the Refugee Convention.

Source: UN Refugee Agency

UN Refugee Agency opposes UK-Rwanda plan to export asylum

14/4/2022: The UN Refugee Agency opposes the UK-Rwanda plan as shifting asylum responsibilities and evading international obligations of the Refugee Convention. The Agency maintains that developed countries host only a fraction of the world’s refugees and have the capacity to manage asylum claims themselves.

Source: UN Refugee Agency

Poland has worked a refugee miracle

6/4/2022: About one in 10 people in Poland is now Ukrainian. In six weeks, 2.5 million Ukrainians (along with thousands of pets) have arrived in the country. As war grinds on, some fear the ‘full’ sign must go up soon.

Source: The Guardian

UN Refugee Agency calls for sustained funding for Rohingya refugees

29/3/2022: As global displacement continues to rise, the UN Refugee Agency and partners are emphasizing the need to ensure that the Rohingya situation does not become a forgotten crisis. The 2022 appeal for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis seeks more than US$881 million to support approximately 1.4 million people.

Source: UN Refugee Agency

Refugees deserve language of humanity, not crisis

29/3/2022: The current outpouring of support for Ukrainian refugees may be jeopardised by the many human rights groups, aid organisations, and media outlets that are using inappropriate crisis headlines. The language of fear leaves the door open to divisive politicians who scapegoat refugees.

Source: The New Humanitarian

Bangladesh shuts largest private school in Rohingya camps

28/3/2022: Bangladesh has been sheltering about 850,000 Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar since a military offensive in 2017. Closure of the school is a further blow to the educational prospects of thousands of children stuck in the camps.

Source: CNA

Lessons to learn from EU’s generous response to Ukraine refugees

9/3/2022: The European Union as a bloc moved quickly to grant temporary protection to all Ukrainians without the delays and bureaucracy of the normal asylum procedure. Geopolitical considerations and proximity do not fully explain the contrast with Europe's harsh response to people fleeing other wars and crises.

Source: Human Rights Watch

UNHCR calls on UK to amend Nationality and Borders Bill

2/3/2022: The UN Refugee Agency calls on the UK government to back amendments made to the Nationality and Borders Bill which have been passed in the House of Lords. The Bill threatened to remove the rights of refugees claiming asylum in direct breach of the Refugee Convention.

Source: UN Refugee Agency

Ukraine exodus triggers refugee movement through Europe

1/3/2022: Around 660,000 refugees have now fled Ukraine to neighboring countries in the past six days according to the latest government data compiled by the UN Refugee Agency. At this rate the situation looks set to become Europe's largest refugee crisis this century.

Source: UN Refugee Agency

Standing with Ukrainian refugees should extend to all refugees

1/3/2022: European Union member states have relaxed cross-border controls in response to the movement of displaced Ukrainians. Why have borders not been opened or visas waived for Syrian and Kurdish refugees also victims of Russian military action? Why is solidarity reserved for white Europeans?

Source: African Arguments

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