The Balkan Route, despite the claims of EU officials, remains very much ope for business. Wait in the barren wasteland for an asylum hearing, or pay [ ... ]
Syria
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AL JAZEERA: Is Albania the next stop for stranded refugees? As the 'Balkan Route' was officially closed to refugees on March 9th, tens of thousands amassed on the Macedonian border, their dreams of continuing t [ ... ] -
IRIN NEWS: Refugees defy Eu-funded crackdown in Turkey Dispatch from one of the key smuggling hubs in Turkey, where refugees buy their lifejackets and organise their perilous trip in the rubber boats to re [ ... ] -
GLOBAL POST: Inside the city where half the UK’s Syrian refugees live My findings from Bradford - the British city that has (at time of writing) received the most resettled Syrian refugees. Far more Syrians enter Britain [ ... ] -
THE INDEPENDENT: UN secretary urges compassion after Hungary fires tear gas at refugees The most violent scenes I have witnessed so far throughout the refugee exodus into Europe. Stones, gas canisters, helicopters. It could have been lift [ ... ] -
INDEPENDENT: A century after the 'genocide', Armenians flee war and return to land of their ancestors April 14, 2015 In the run-up to the commemoration of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, I met the ancestors of survivors who had been forced fro [ ... ]
