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Ai Weiwei's extraordinary film about refugees is a call to action we cannot ignore

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is showcasing a new film, Human Flow, about 21st century refugees

Dec 8, 2017

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Rohingya Muslims

Denmark could send failed asylum seekers to live on desert islands

Immigration minister Inger Stojberg open to plan that would move hundreds of foreigners to camps on Danish islands.

Dec 7, 2017

By Josh Robbins

Trump travel ban allowed to go ahead by US Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court ruled that the ban on seven countries can come into effect even as legal challenges continue through lower courts

Dec 4, 2017

By James Tennent

Donald Trump Iran Supreme Court

Pilots across Germany are blocking the deportation of asylum seekers

Lufthansa and Eurowings pilots in Germany are preventing planned deportations of asylum seekers and refugees.

Dec 4, 2017

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Can a curb on immigration stop the rise in Europe's Muslim population? Not likely, says new report

The Pew Research Centre report projects that the increase will take place in the future decades even if migration is brought to a standstill.

Nov 30, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Rohingya Muslim Buddhist Myanmar Bangladesh

The 100 most powerful images of the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis

Nov 23, 2017

By David Sim

Rohingya Muslims Human rights

Papua New Guinea police storm Manus Island detention centre and order asylum seekers to leave

Police urged asylum seekers to leave as their stay in the closed down centre, in an area used by the Papua New Guinea navy, was illegal.

Nov 23, 2017

By Ludovica Iaccino

Huddled masses: Haunting Rohingya refugee photos the world cannot ignore

Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer has returned to Bangladesh to document the hardships faced by the refugees, 60% of whom are children.

Nov 21, 2017

By David Sim

Rohingya Muslims Migration Pictures

Poignant portraits of Rohingya Muslim refugees injured while fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar

Rohingya Muslims who were injured while fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state showed their wounds to Reuters photographer Jorge Silva at refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

Nov 17, 2017

By David Sim

Rohingya Muslims

Starved, 'mutilated' and blackmailed migrants auctioned off as slaves by smugglers in Libya

Many of the migrants are forced into indentured service after their attempts to reach Europe are delayed or they run out of funds to pay the smugglers.

Nov 15, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Libya

Rohingya Muslim rafts Myanmar Bangladesh

Desperate Rohingya Muslims risk flimsy rafts or swim 2.5 miles from Myanmar to Bangladesh

Rohingya Muslims are so desperate to leave Myanmar they are willing to risk their lives by crossing a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) stretch of water on flimsy makeshift rafts or even swimming to Bangladesh.

Nov 13, 2017

By David Sim

Rohingya Muslims Migration Pictures

German newspaper publishes list of 33,293 people who have died crossing to Europe since 1993

Compiled by artist Banu Cennetoğlu, The List took up 48 pages of the daily newspaper's Thursday edition.

Nov 10, 2017

By James Tennent

Bodies of 26 teenage girls found in Mediterranean Sea as sexual assault and torture suspected

The victims' corpses were picked by a Spanish military ship and most of them are thought to be from either Niger or Nigeria.

Nov 7, 2017

By Vasudevan Sridharan

Nigeria

American child sex offenders will be identified on their passports

The move is in line with 'International Megan's Law', passed by Congress at the end of 2015 and signed into law by former President Obama.

Nov 2, 2017

By James Tennent

'Nation's shame... f**king disgraceful': Russell Crowe offers home and jobs to Manus Island refugees

The actor offered to take in six refugees after the Australian government's decision to shut the detention facility, leaving hundreds of people without food, water and basic facilities.

Nov 2, 2017

By Lara Rebello

Russell Crowe

More than 200 Rohingya Muslims have now drowned fleeing Mynamar

A small fishing boat carrying up to 45 Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar to Bangladesh capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday (31 October), leaving at least four dead.

Oct 31, 2017

By Paul Wright

Rohingya Muslims

French police 'beat refugee children, steal their shoes and soak sleeping bags in tear gas'

French police have been accused of "unprovoked and extreme" violence against refugees, including children, in the port of Calais.

Oct 30, 2017

By Paul Wright

Buddhists protest to urge Myanmar not to repatriate Rohingya

Protesters urge government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims.

Oct 22, 2017

By Associated Press

Rohingya Muslims

'Hell on Earth' for Rohingya children in refugee camps without enough food and clean water

One in five Rohingya children in Bangladesh's refugee camps are "acutely malnourished" and require medical attention, says Unicef report, Outcast and Desperate.

Oct 20, 2017

By David Sim

Rohingya Muslims Migration Pictures

'I saw Isis militants shoot a two-year-old': Syrian civilians recall horror scenes as they flee Raqqa

Hundreds of civilians fled the city last week as US-led airstrikes on Isis fighters intensified to drive them from one of their last Syrian strongholds.

Oct 16, 2017

By Isabelle Gerretsen

Isis

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