@glynmoody So a #refugee gets to NI, crosses the border to Eire, and applies for #asylum. Eire wants to push them back, but UK will send the refugee to Rwanda, which isn't safe. So now the refugee has a cast-iron case for claiming asylum in Eire.
This might decrease asylum claims in the UK, but it will do nothing to #stopTheBoats.
For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an ‘acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing project
The #UnitedStates has allowed >40k #refugees into the country in the first 5 months of the fiscal yr after they passed a rigorous, often yearslong, #screening process that includes #security & #medical#vetting & interviews w/ American officers overseas.
The figure represents a significant expansion of the #refugee program, which is at the heart of #US#laws that provide desperate people from around the world w/ a #legal way to find #SafeHaven in the #UnitedStates.
The US has not granted refugee status to so many people in such a short period of time in >7 yrs. The #Biden admin is now on target to allow in 125k #refugees this yr.…
By comparison, ~64k refugees were admitted during the last 3 yrs of the #Trump admin.
@DrALJONES This points out Israeli Gov’s “methodology”.
Gee, guess we shouldn’t have supported #netanyahu
“If the agency no longer exists, argues Israel, then the #refugee issue must no longer exist, & the legitimate right for #palestinian refugees to return to their land will be unnecessary. #israel has denied that right of return since the late 1940s, even though its own membership of the #un was made conditional upon Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to their homes & land.”
New instance, new #introduction: Hello! I'm Abdi 👋🏾 Software engineer/data scientist in NYC. Former #refugee. Lover of greenery/gardens, board games, #movies, #cycling, autumn, Japanese food, and #tea. Fortunate to have done a lot of #travel
"In Dnipro, we visited an apartment building where at least 64 people had died in an earlier #Russian missile strike. Eerily enough, we could still see clothes hanging in a top-floor closet — visible because the entire front wall of the building was gone. Other Russian missiles have struck #hospitals, #schools & shopping malls in the area. These are targets of no military value whose destruction amounts to #crimes against humanity" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/12/ukraine-united-states-aid/
"European countries are providing far more aid overall than the #UnitedStates. But #Europe can’t meet Ukraine’s urgent military needs without #US help.
@selzero people who believe that the God they worship literally WAS a #Palestinian#refugee, who fled from Judea via #Gaza into Egypt to escape persecutors who were massacring children, and yet who look at the current #massacre of Palestinian children in Gaza and think "hell yes! Let's give #Israel more weapons."
In this article for @medium I write the history of the millions of displaced persons left in DP camps for years as they waited for a country to take them in because they were afraid to go home to a totalitarian regime.
As Enver Solomon of the Refugee Council notes the UK's #refugee & migrant 'crisis' 'is about who we are as a country & who we want to be. It is about standing up for the right to asylum, giving people a fair hearing & treating them with the dignity & humanity they deserve'!
The #Tories are the worst of us, default to inhumanity for all except their chums & lack any compassion for those in danger (again unless its their chums).
'There are substantial grounds for believing that the removal of the claimants to Rwanda would expose them to a real risk of ill-treatment by reason of refoulement' [repatriation to the countries from which they fled].
Unfortunately for the #Tory right (but likely to be ignored by them) the ruling is not only based on our membership of the #ECHR, but on a range of international commitments & a decisive intervention by the UN Refugee Agency.
Escalating #violence across the #Darfur region in #Sudan has sparked fears that #atrocities committed two decades ago could be repeated, the #UN#refugee agency, #UNHCR , said on Friday, voicing grave concern over the development.
More than 4.8 million people have been #displaced inside Sudan since fighting broke out in April between the army & a #paramilitary group known as the #RapidSupportForces (RSF). 1.2 million have sought #refuge in neighbouring countries.
Bloodied, despondent, clutching a toy: the Ukrainian artists savaging refugee portrait stereotypes (www.theguardian.com)
For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an ‘acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing project