Breaking with his predecessors from both parties, Trump has ratcheted down admissions of those fleeing persecution to their lowest levels in decades. SOURCE: THE ATLANTIC BY: CONOR FRIEDERSDORF Refugees are not simply impoverished migrants. A refugee is defined, by a 1951 international convention, as a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted … … Continued
SOURCE: THE ATLANTIC BY: PRISCILLA ALVAREZ If current trends hold, the United States could resettle fewer refugees in fiscal year 2018 than Canada, which has about one-tenth the population. During the first year of the Trump administration, the U.S. relinquished its role as the world’s leader in resettling refugees, accepting fewer refugees in 2017 than … Continued
SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST BY: ISHAAN THAROOR Historically, the United States has been the most welcoming nation on the planet for refugees. Since the adoption of the 1980 U.S. Refugee Act, it has taken in around 3 million of the more than 4 million refugees who have been resettled around the world. But President Trump … Continued
SOURCE: NBC NEWS BY: KELLY COBIELLLA AND GABE JOSELOW ALEPPO, Syria — In this city’s historic center, 63-year-old soap manufacturer Safwan Zenabili is back in business. The olive soap Aleppo is famous for was stacked high at his 400-year-old factory during a recent visit, the roof roughly patched after years of bombings and clashes among … Continued
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: MARTIN CHULOV Each day for as long as he can remember, Abu Ahmed, a Syrian merchant, has hawked Qur’anic pamphlets in central Beirut, one eye out for a buyer and another for the police. My town is filled with regime forces and thugs. How do they expect me to return? Abu … Continued
SOURCE: SHARE AMERICA BY: LEA TERHUNE Ahmad Ashkar is as enthusiastic about his business model as he is about the falafel he sells. It’s the latest development, he says, in “how business can serve humanity, as opposed to humanity serving business.” The falafel and hummus the Palestinian American serves up — based on his mother’s … Continued
SOURCE: THE DAILY STAR BY: GHINWA OBEID BEIRUT: Lebanese officials Thursday welcomed Russia’s proposal for the return of Syrian refugees, pledging to form a committee to oversee the return with General Security playing a key role, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions. Lebanon took its position during talks between high-level Lebanese and Russian … Continued
SOURCE: ILLLAWARA MERCURY Protests have been held across Australia to mark five years since the federal government reintroduced the policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers arriving by boat. Thousands of people rallied around the country with large crowds stopping traffic in both Sydney and Melbourne. Protesters on Saturday demanded that refugees still languishing on … Continued
SOURCE: NPR BY: JASON BEAUBIEN What are the international rules for dealing with foreign nationals who show up in a country often without any travel documents and definitely without a visa? It’s a timely question in this era of unprecedented refugee movement, as nations around the world struggle to deal with huge numbers of uninvited … Continued
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. SOURCE: UNHCR 20 July 2018 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has this week released its Annual Public Health Overview of new … Continued
SOURCE: NPR BY: DEBORAH AMOS In the world of adults, the Supreme Court has upheld a travel ban from some mostly Muslim nations, and refugee arrivals from Syria as well as other Middle East hot spots have slowed to a trickle. Political leaders claim refugees are a threat. But in the world of children’s literature, … Continued
At first glance, Baynatna — “between us” in Arabic — looks like just a few hundred books, artfully arranged in a sunny room on the ground floor of Berlin’s public library. It’s much more than that. The small collection is the first Arabic-language public library in Berlin and, according to its founders, the first-of-its-kind Arabic-language … Continued
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