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[Link] Maya Assad's family has been stateless for generations, but that could soon change
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
For more than a year the engineer and her businessman husband had been jobless, as the economy in the country in which she was born and raised, Lebanon, imploded.
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[Link] People Are Worried About Russian Saboteurs at the Poland-Ukraine Border
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
PRZEMYŚL, Poland — For Vladimir, a Ukrainian taxicab driver who was recently ferrying foreign fighters and refugees to and from the Poland-Ukraine border, the threat of Russian saboteurs is real.
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[Link] Ukraine and Russia end second round of peace talks in regret, as reports dispute port city's fall
Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine says that a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia had not yielded the results Kyiv hoped for, but the sides had discussed humanitarian corridors and agreed to speak again. Both sides said they wanted a possible ceasefire for evacuating civilians through humanitarian corridors.
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[Link] 27 People Drowned Trying to Reach the UK
Read: 27/11/2021 www.vice.com
At least 27 people drowned crossing the Channel in an attempt to reach the UK from France.
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[Link] The deadly new risk Afghan women face: It starts with a strange phone call and can end with murder
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Her body was found riddled with bullets alongside three other women who had also been killed. Ms Ayoubi is a journalist and activist who left Afghanistan over concerns for her own safety.
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[Link] The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the U.S.
Read: 7/11/2021 theintercept.com
Before the Taliban took control of Kabul in August, the U.S.-backed Afghan commandos known as Zero units were the ghosts of the Afghan battlefield. Along with their CIA advisers, they were feared and, in recent years, virtually invisible.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours gather in Tehran to discuss its future
Read: 4/11/2021 www.aljazeera.com
Iran says the main goal of the event is to emphasise the call for the formation of an ‘inclusive’ government in Afghanistan.
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[Link] Afghan refugee stabbed to death in London in front of schoolchildren
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A teenage Afghan refugee was stabbed to death on a sports field in south-west London in front of schoolchildren playing rugby.The victim, named by the Evening Standard as 18-year-old Hazrat Wali, was attacked at about 4.
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[Link] Australia to stop processing asylum seekers in PNG
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
After that, PNG will assume full responsibility for refugees and asylum seekers in the country.
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[Link] Didar is losing his sight, so relies on the customers in his shop for their honesty
Read: 14/9/2021 www.sbs.com.au
He was among 40 people at sea for 12 days before the boat broke down and began to sink. The area where Didar lives has a growing multicultural community and he says some customers drive from more than 100 kilometres away to buy hard to find ingredients in his shop.
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[Link] Mexico Embraces Afghan Refugees As Its Soldiers Beat Asylum Seekers Traveling by Caravan
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY — In southern Mexico, a Central American migrant crumpled to the ground as a senior official with the national immigration agency stomped on the man’s face wearing a military-style boot.
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[Link] Afghanistan’s neighbours offered millions in aid to harbour refugees
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Countries neighbouring Afghanistan have been offered millions in aid if they are prepared to temporarily harbour tens of thousands of refugees, prior to security checks clearing them for transit to Europe and the US, but Pakistan and other bordering states have warned they will not take more refugee
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[Link] Expected Afghan influx reopens divisions over refugees in Europe
Read: 17/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The fall of Kabul has reopened divisions over immigration in European countries as government leaders brace themselves for an inevitable surge in refugees.
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[Link] Afghan refugee may lose permanent residency in Australia – for supplying identity document
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Apermanent resident of Australia – an Afghan refugee who has lived in Brisbane for a decade – has been threatened with having his visa cancelled, and possible deportation, over an identity document the Australian government asked him to produce.
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[Link] Home affairs minister ordered into mediation with Afghan refugee detained in Australia
Read: 4/8/2021 theguardian.com
The Australian home affairs minister has been ordered into mediation with an Afghan refugee who assisted coalition forces during the Afghanistan conflict and remains in detention in Australia after eight years.
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