Executive Summary for June 30, 2016
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the first seizure of valuables from migrants in Denmark, U.S. calls for 1 million jobs for refugees and a Pakistani climbdown on Afghan refugees.
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We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the first seizure of valuables from migrants in Denmark, U.S. calls for 1 million jobs for refugees and a Pakistani climbdown on Afghan refugees.
We review the latest issues, including a poll that says Australians don’t support their government’s asylum policy, reports of Egypt becoming a popular departure country for E.U.-bound migrants, and the release of U.N. emergency funds for displaced Nigerians.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the displacement of thousands in South Sudan, Kenya’s new plan to repatriate half of the population of Dadaab and the condemnation of the E.U.’s newest migration proposal.
We review the latest issues related to forced migration, including Pakistan’s pleas for aid for its Afghan refugees, the French calling for Calais migrants to be moved to the U.K. and fears over rising right-wing views in Europe.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the rescue of about 4,500 migrants in the Mediterranean in one day, a U.N. warning that 2.3 million Iraqis face displacement and Kenya’s intention to begin closing Dadaab refugee camp in July.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Syrians stranded on Jordan’s border and running out of water, Nigerians starving to death to escape Boko Haram, and migrants turning to sealed trucks to enter the E.U.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Sweden tightening its asylum laws, Hungarian police being investigated over a migrant drowning and Jordan sealing its last entry point for Syrian refugees.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a row over the total number of refugees, reports that Somalis in urban Kenya have been ordered into camps and the sacking of a whistleblower who revealed conditions in Australia’s offshore detention regime.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including reports of Turkish border guards killing 11 Syrian refugees, a UNHCR report claiming worldwide displacement of 1 in every 113 people and MSF’s decision to reject E.U. funding.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Texas’ failure to block the resettlement of Syrian refugees in a test case for U.S. refugee policy and shots being fired to prevent Tamil boat people from disembarking in Indonesia.
We review recent issues related to refugees, including a survey suggesting a rise in Islamophobia in Germany, reports of 34 migrant deaths in the Niger desert and the E.U. Commission’s latest progress report on the E.U.-Turkey deal.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including the displacement of 14,000 Iraqis southeast of Mosul, a UNICEF report on unaccompanied children traveling to Europe from Africa and UNHCR’s warning at the London refugee conference of a ‘‘collective failure.’’
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including a UNICEF report on child abuse in French refugee camps, the need for resettlement of more than 1.9 million people and the U.N.’s plea to extend the deadline for closing the Dadaab camp in Kenya.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Nigeria’s agreement to repatriate 80,000 of its refugees from Cameroon, the rise in Colombia’s internally displaced persons and the closure of a refugee camp at the Greek-Macedonian border.
We review recent issues related to refugees, including growing tension in migrant camps on Lesbos, suspicion that the wrong man may have been extradited to Italy on trafficking charges and the rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean by an American company.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees, including a top African migrant trafficker extradited to Italy, the plight of unaccompanied refugee minors in Sweden and an increase in attacks on Austria’s migrant centers this year.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees, including a historic record for refugee arrivals in Africa, Boko Haram attacks that force thousands to flee their homes in Niger and male migrants forced into prostitution in Greece.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees, including the E.U. relaunch of a migrant work permit program, an attack at a Jordanian refugee camp that left at least five dead and the Parisian police’s 23rd migrant camp eviction of the year.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees, including Germany speeding up refugee returns to Turkey, Iraqi civilians drowning as they attempt to flee anti-ISIS operations in Fallujah and more than 130 migrant bodies washing up on Libya’s shores.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including the rising migrant death toll on the Mediterranean, Austria being on the verge of reaching its self-imposed refugee quota and Amnesty’s condemnation of the E.U.’s plan to return refugees to Turkey.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including President Obama’s plan to step up refugee resettlement in the U.S., refugees stranded in a South Korean airport and Austria’s newest refugee center destroyed in an arson attack.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including France’s plan to open a center for migrants, a wealthy Swiss village preferring to pay a hefty fine instead of housing 10 refugees and Kenya’s announcement of a closing date for its largest migrant camp.
We review the most recent refugee-related issues, including thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Iraq, the latest numbers on migrants using the sea route from Libya to Italy and figures showing that more than 1 million Afghans have been displaced by war.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees, including thousands of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean over the last week, clashes at the migrant camp in Calais and more than 150,000 Syrians stranded at the Turkish border.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including Europe’s use of migrant testimonies to build war crime cases, plans for further refugee camp evictions in Greece, and condemnation for the E.U. over unaccompanied minor detentions.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including crackdowns from Sudan and Eritrea on migrants en route to Europe, a branch of the Red Crescent shutting down search and rescue operations in Libya, and another migrant shipwreck on the Mediterranean.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including a record number of Syrian refugees resettled in the U.S. this week, Germany’s new migration integration law and Somalia’s warning to Kenya about closing the world’s largest refugee camp.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including Greece evacuating thousands from the country’s largest informal refugee camp, the drop in migrant deaths crossing the Mediterranean and the latest from the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees, including the Turkish president’s call for Europe to take more Syrian refugees, Iraq’s decision to reopen its border with Jordan and the start in Istanbul, Turkey, of the first World Humanitarian Summit.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including the drop in refugee registration in Germany, reports of children being forced into prostitution at Greek migrant reception centers and U.S. Senate Democrats urging Obama to speed up refugee resettlement.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including global statistics on the world’s willingness to welcome refugees, the hundreds of refugee children missing in Sweden and Turkey’s response to an E.U. head’s remarks on the unraveling refugee deal.
We review the most recent refugee-related issues, including the latest developments on the crumbling deal between the E.U. and Turkey, smugglers making billions from displaced people and Doctors Without Borders criticizing Europe’s response to the migrant crisis.
We review recent refugee issues, including the U.N. push to help millions of refugee children who are missing out on an education, a new E.U. pilot program to teach local languages to displaced populations and Rwanda’s expulsion of more than 1,500 Burundian refugees.
We review the most recent issues related to refugees including the latest numbers on migrants returned from Greece to Turkey, Germany’s plans to spend 93.6 billion euros on refugees by 2020 and protests at Australia’s offshore migrant detention center.
We review the latest issues related to refugees including the 90 percent drop in migrant arrivals to Greece in April, the attack at Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camp and Turkey’s plan to address the claims of increasing sexual assault cases in border refugee camps.
We review the latest issues related to refugees including the floundering E.U.–Turkey refugee deal, the go-ahead for some E.U. member states to extend their border controls and the increasingly desperate living situation in Greece’s migrant camps.
We review the recent issues related to refugees including the latest statistics on IDPs and migrant crossings, accusations that Turkish border guards have killed five refugees in the past two months and the E.U.’s decision to begin migrant-return talks with Nigeria.
We review the latest issues related to refugees including an uptick in violence against refugees in Slovakia, France and Germany, Panama’s decision to close its border with Colombia to stem migrant flow and the U.N.’s call to reframe the refugee crisis.
We review the latest issues related to refugees, including Kenya’s decision to close down all refugee camps, how Brexit could unravel the E.U.-Turkey refugee deal and Italy’s rescue of nearly 1,800 migrants in the Mediterranean.
We review the latest developments on refugee issues, including airstrikes killing scores of internally displaced people in Syria, the coming together of Italy and Germany on refugee policies and officials trying to placate distressed asylum seekers on Nauru, Micronesia.
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