Tagged: humanitarian crisis
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling for an investigation into an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province that reportedly killed 22 children and six teachers at a school there on Wednesday. Download Audio The UK-based...
Last year’s epic flow of refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe transfixed the world and finally put the issue of migration at the top of the political agenda. To that end, the 71st General Assembly...
Greek authorities have emptied the Idomeni refugee camp near the Macedonian border. The operation to move thousands of refugees out of the camp began on Monday and involved hundreds of police. Journalists except for...
Researchers say suicide rates in Gaza are soaring to unprecedented highs as the humanitarian situation on the ground in the impoverished and blockaded coastal territory deteriorates over time. Abeer Ayyoub reports from Gaza City....
Since the closure of the Balkan borders, there has been a notable decline in the number of refugees arriving in Greece from Turkey, but what about the 54,000 that are left stranded all across the country?...
Italy is proposing another plan to deal with the migrant crisis, this one between the EU and African nations, as hundreds of would-be migrants drown while attempting to cross from Libya last week. FSRN’s...
The first boats filled with migrants being deported to Turkey set sail on the short trip from the Greek island of Lesbos today. These deportees are the first under a controversial scheme between the...
More than a week after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook the northern areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, relief work has barely started. The earthquake killed more than 250 people, injured another 1600 and damaged...
The humanitarian crisis unfolding across Europe deepens as record numbers of refugees continue to arrive by land and sea, fleeing violence and poverty in the war-torn Middle East, North Africa and humanitarian crises elsewhere....
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri continue; Michael Brown’s family prepares for his funeral From Ferguson to L.A., protests demand police accountability Journalist James Risen: will he be jailed for not revealing source? Iraq: ISIS beheads...