Tag: Refugees

• Monday, September 30th 2024 - 08:54 UTC

  Brazilian FM asks Venezuelan colleague to let refugees go to Argentina

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira asked his Venezuelan counterpart Yván Gil for a safe-conduct for the six opposition leaders staying at the premises of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas but has been left up to Itamaraty after the expulsion of Buenos Aires' mission.

• Friday, June 14th 2024 - 09:56 UTC

  Hundreds of asylum seekers stranded at Sao Paulo's main airport

  

  São Paulo's Guarulhos Airport has 291 asylum seekers held in a restricted area pending the approval of their applications, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. Most of the travelers stemmed from India, it was also explained.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Rwanda bill finally approved in Parliament; ex-minister reveals she preferred the Falklands option

  

  Westminster finally passed on Monday night the controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, following a marathon scuffle between the Lords and the House of Commons.

• Monday, February 12th 2024 - 09:24 UTC

  Brazilian refugees from Gaza arrive in Sao Paulo

  

  Brazilian authorities Sunday confirmed the landing in Sao Paulo on a commercial flight of a 30-year-old woman and her children, aged 4, 2, and a baby born on Dec. 24 last year, who fled the war-torn Gaza Strip through Cairo, Agencia Brasil reported.

• 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.