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Dumfries and Galloway councillor shocked at racist message after speech on Afghan refugees

Dougie Campbell, a former volunteer with the Scottish Refugee Council, helped secure a commitment 18 months ago for Dumfries and Galloway to resettle 20 families who were fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan

Daily Record

'People are worried about their children': Concerns over plight of Afghan refugees

SERIOUS concerns have been voiced over the plight of hundreds of Afghan refugees in Scottish hotels who are still waiting for homes.

The National (Scotland)

Grannies helping refugee children learn English form 'amazing' connection with Adelaide students

Blair Athol North Primary School successfully connects refugee students with grannies — who all have a background in education — to help them learn how to read and write in English.

ABC News

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Uighurs' plight a lesson for govt

The case of 63 members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church who were arrested for overstaying visas in Pattaya last week brings back memories of the notorious repatriation of another group of Uighur refugees back to China in 2014.

Bangkok Post

Manus Island and Nauru: previously unseen testimony and AI imagery reveal ‘unimaginable’ part of Australian history

The witness statements were collected during more than 300 hours of interviews with refugees as part of a now discontinued pro bono class action

The Guardian - AU

A Utah ice climber was killed by falling ice after saving her friend's life

Meg O'Neill, a mentor to young refugees, died after pushing a young woman into safety. They were ascending the frozen Raven Falls in Utah with another climber when the ice cracked, police said.

WEKU

Review: 'Transatlantic' is a clunky, quasi-historical melodrama about Varian Fry

The story of Varian Fry, the Emergency Rescue Committee (later to become today's International Rescue Committee) and its efforts to spirit refugee artists and intellectuals out of Vichy France in the early years of World War II has become a historical, ahistorical, quasi-historical romantic melodrama, "Transatlantic." Written by Anna Winger…

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Chinese Christians ‘to be sent to third country’

More than 60 self-exiled members of a Chinese Christian church who were arrested in Pattaya a week ago for overstaying their visas are expected to be sent to a third country next week, says a senior police official.

Bangkok Post

Lebanon: Army Finds Rocket Launcher in Marjayoun

The Lebanese army found on Friday a deserted rocket launcher in the southern town of Marjayoun that contained several unlaunched rockets. The army leadership said in a statement that efforts are underway to dismantle it. The encounter came following a flare-up in violence and major salvoes of rockets that were…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Palestinian Refugee Chief Warns over Lack of Donors

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Thursday that it faced growing challenges in running its operations as donors were set to contribute less money this year. Agency chief Philippe Lazzarini told The Associated Press in an interview that he plans to make a new appeal for donors after…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Transatlantic on Netflix review: a story of remarkable bravery gets lost in this glossy show

This Netflix series about refugees and political dissidents escpaing the Gestapo is simply too whimsical

Evening Standard

Pallas launch digital album to raise funds for former keyboard player Mike Stobbie

Watch a new video for the Pallas song Refugee below, released to raise money for founder member Mike Stobbie

Louder

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum: “We’re building a society on greed and selfishness”

‘I always pay attention to all the refugee situations, not because I’m a refugee, but I’m trying to see where our humanity is going to be... those boats carry our trust in humanity’

Evening Standard

Refugee claims she was ‘victim of racism’ after being denied boarding from Air Canada flight

Ketty Nivyabandi was left ‘simply stunned’ by the refusal to let her fly

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Reuters

Aid shortage leaves refugees in Uganda reliant on kitchen gardens

Watering the neat lines of green salad leaves outside her thatched home, Susan Konga, a South Sudanese woman living in a refugee camp in northern Uganda, is preparing her kitchen garden for the next harvest.

The Guardian - UK

Gary Lineker: it was factually accurate to call refugee policy cruel

Presenter stands by tweets likening home secretary’s language to 1930s Germany, after BBC impartiality row

Al Jazeera

Thai officials say Chinese church members to be deported soon

Members of Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church say they faced unbearable harassment in China and sought asylum in the US.

Reuters

Syrian refugee elected mayor of German village

Rayyan Alshebl made his first contact with Germany in 2009, watching Bayern Munich football matches on television in Syria. A few years later, he would seek refuge there after civil war in his home country forced him to flee.

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The Independent UK

Thai police say Chinese church members to be deported soon

Officials say more than 60 self-exiled members of a Chinese Christian church who were detained in Thailand after receiving U.N. refugee status will be deported by next week, probably to a third country

The Guardian - UK

Britain spends three times more aid on housing refugees than it sends to Africa

Foreign Office figures show aid to Africa fell to £1.1bn in 2022, compared with £3.7bn of budget spent on refugees in UK

Reuters

After immigrant deaths at border, calls to end U.S-Canada asylum pact grow louder

(This April 4 story has been corrected to fix the name to Hussan from Hassan, in paragraphs 4 and 5)

Dublin Live

Citywest refugee centre evacuated as Department clarify speculation

The incident at 2pm led to speculation locally and on social media as to the circumstances surrounding it

Dublin Live

Videos emerge online of alleged brawl outside East Wall refugee centre

The shocking clips show a vicious melee outside an old ESB building in East Wall

The Conversation

More than 650 refugees arrived in this regional town. Locals' welcoming attitudes flipped the stereotype

When we think of regional towns in Australia, some of us might think “close-knit”, “conservative”, or “resistant to change”.

The New Daily

‘We are not animals’: Refugees speak up about detention

More than 30 refugees have delivered testimony about the squalid conditions they endured in Australia's offshore detention centres.

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