refugees
Most refugees who arrived in Germany thanks to Angela Merkel's "Open Door" policy have now found work, according to a recent study by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). For the cohort who arrived in 2015, the employment rate in 2022 was 64%, compared with 77% for the wider German population. Some 90% of employees in this group were subject to social security contributions, claimed IAB, and the median gross hourly wage for 2015 arrivals was €13.70. This is above the low-wage threshold of €12.50, despite the fact that the mean age of refugees is much lower than the national average. "D...
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European Union auditors said on Wednesday that they are unable to establish whether some of the billions of euros the bloc has given to Turkey to help it cope with Syrian refugees is actually having any impact. Under a deal concluded between EU leaders and Turkey in 2016, the bloc committed to provide at least €6 billion to Turkey to help it cope with migrants crossing in from Syria. Turkey in turn committed to stop migrants leaving its territory for Europe. In March 2016, a month after the deal came into effect, Turkey's government said the number of migrants crossing illegally into Greece ha...
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Good weather conditions and calm seas have resulted in the resumption of migrant landings on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Italy's Coast Guard rescued a boat with 45 people that was in trouble near Malta, an 18-year-old Gambian girl died in the shipwreck.
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Last weekend in Dublin, a distressing scene unfolded as numerous asylum seekers were obliged to sleep outside the government's International Protection Office in tents. They had no access to basic necessities – no electricity, no running water, no sanitation. The result could be described as a localised humanitarian disaster. According to Jed, an asylum seeker from Jordan, the recent conditions were deplorable. He described a lack of essential services, including toilets and showers, leaving people without proper hygiene facilities for weeks, enduring harsh weather conditions. Yet as we conduc...
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Children in northern Gaza are dying of starvation, according to the WHO. In a post on X, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported "grim findings" after the WHO visited two hospitals in northern Gaza. "Severe levels of malnutrition, children dying of starvation, serious shortages of fuel, food and medical supplies, hospital buildings destroyed," he wrote on the social media platform on Monday. At Kamal Adwan Hospital - the only paediatrics hospital in the north of Gaza - Ghebreyesus said a "lack of food" had resulted in the deaths of 10 children. The situat...
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The Polish government has extended the right to stay and assistance for more than one million Ukrainian refugees, but only until 30 June. There is growing concern that the budgets of international aid organisations might be reduced, but their support is still very much needed. "We help people with their taxes and declarations, a lot of pensioners come to us with requests for help, even small things, but they need it very much,” said Svitlana Kotova of the Polish Legal Help and Information Centre. “I think that this help is still important and should still be provided. The war is not over, it i...
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Since the war began in Ukraine two years ago, thousands of Ukrainian and Russian refugees have fled to Serbia. While some continued their journey toward Western Europe, others chose to stay in the Western Balkan country, seeking safety and stability away from the conflict. Zhenya arrived just a few weeks after the war started from the Sakhalin Oblast in the east of Russia and settled in the university city of Novi Sad in the northwest of Serbia. She is not proud of the war in Ukraine – in fact, quite the opposite. "When the war started, we felt very bad," she says of her situation in February ...
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Millions of Ukrainian refugees are still abroad or displaced within Ukraine, and the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Feb. 20 that U.S. funding is vital to maintain the UN's refugee support programs. The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated in January 2024 that some 14.6 million Ukrainians, approximately 40% of the population, need humanitarian assistance. This figure does not include the estimated 6.3 million Ukrainians forced to flee abroad. The UNHCR released a report on Feb. 20 detailing the situation regarding Ukrainian refugees and ...
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Millions of Ukrainian refugees are still abroad or displaced within Ukraine, and the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Feb. 20 that U.S. funding is vital to maintain the UN's refugee support programs. The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated in January 2024 that some 14.6 million Ukrainians, approximately 40% of the population, need humanitarian assistance. This figure does not include the estimated 6.3 million Ukrainians forced to flee abroad. The UNHCR released a report on Feb. 20 detailing the situation regarding Ukrainian refugees and ...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Millions of Ukrainian refugees are still abroad or displaced within Ukraine, and the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Feb. 20 that U.S. funding is vital to maintain the UN's refugee support programs. The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated in January 2024 that some 14.6 million Ukrainians, approximately 40% of the population, need humanitarian assistance. This figure does not include the estimated 6.3 million Ukrainians forced to flee abroad. The UNHCR released a report on Feb. 20 detailing the situation regarding Ukrainian refugees and ...
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