Tag: Refugees

• Saturday, May 20th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Asylum requests on the rise in Uruguay

  

  According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of asylum requests in Uruguay has increased to 16,000 from 13,113 in mid-2022, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  First family of Afghan refugees arriving in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay is to welcome Thursday the first family of Afghan refugees, Así Nos Va from Montevideo's Radio Carve reported.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Asylum seekers who arrive in UK on small boats will be sent to Rwanda, BBC

  

  Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans, report BBC. Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to sign a deal for a £120m trial involving mostly single men arriving in Britain via boat crossings.

• Monday, March 28th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Yet another group of Ukrainian refugees makes it to Brazil

  

  A group of 47 Ukrainian refugees has arrived in Brazil Saturday after being assisted by the South American country's Embassy in Warsaw with travel documents and notes to Polish authorities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) announced.

• Tuesday, December 14th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  UN launches US$ 1,79 billion Refugee Response Plan to support six million Venezuelans

  

  The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, have launched a US$ 1.79 billion regional plan to support the increasing needs of refugees and migrants from Venezuela and their host communities across 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Wednesday, November 24th 2021 - 19:11 UTC

  Over 20 irregular migrants fear dead as boat capsize in English Channel

  

  More than 20 people are feared to have died after their boat capsized while trying to cross the English Channel. These are the asylum seekers some Britons have considered sending over to the Falkland Islands earlier this week as scores of mostly Iranians, Iraqis, Eritreans and Syrians keep rafting in.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  UK MPs suggest asylum seekers crossing the English Channel be sent to Falklands

  

  According to UK news reports, the British government is becoming quite desperate about the asylum seekers braving the English Channel, a record 25,000 so far this year, and all sorts of radical measures to contain the increase in arrivals are being considered, including sending the refugees south to the Falkland Islands.

• Sunday, August 8th 2021 - 13:02 UTC

  Migration crisis in Ecuadorian border town: Clandestine crossings and lack of government support

  

  By Sebastián Astorga (*) – A border town divided between two countries, where before the Covid-19 pandemic people passed through without custom controls, is now divided by fences on the two bridges that cross from Ecuador to Peru in its vicinity, cutting off almost completely the only commercial activity on which it survived and further burdening the situation of the more than ten thousand migrants who are passing through, many of them on foot.

• Monday, November 25th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  A US$ 1.35 billion appeal fund launched to meet Venezuelan migrants humanitarian needs

  

  A US$1.35 billion appeal has been launched to meet the increasing humanitarian needs of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Latin America and the Caribbean and to support the communities hosting them. The ongoing political and economic crisis in Venezuela has forced more than 4.6 million citizens to flee, nearly 80% of whom are sheltering in the region.

• Thursday, October 24th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Venezuela exodus on track to reach 5 million, says UN; 5.000 leave every day

  

  The exodus of Venezuelans is on track to reach 5 million people, as pressure grows on neighboring countries to provide them with long-term support, United Nations and European Union officials said on Wednesday.