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Home Office must process asylum claim ‘every four minutes’ to hit backlog target, Refugee Council claims

The Refugee Council suggests the Prime Minister’s pledge to curb the backlog by the end of the year ‘is unlikely’

Evening Standard

Top charity calls out Tory minister's 'blatant falsehoods' over SNP and refugees

A TOP refugee charity has called out a Tory minister’s “wild inaccuracies” after he twice falsely claimed in parliament that Scotland does not…

The National (Scotland)

Many people think it's impossible to be LGBTQ+ and religious – this 'homosecularism' is dangerous for asylum seekers

The UK government’s plan to send refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda has been controversial from the start. For LGBTQ+ people seeking asylum in the UK, it remains a frightening prospect.

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Fury as Tory MP falsely claims 'SNP don't house refugees in Scotland'

A TORY Home Office minister triggered fury when he repeated a false claim that the “SNP don’t house refugees in Scotland”.

The National (Scotland)

‘We fear leaving the house’: Lebanon and Turkey step up deportations of Syrian refugees

Countries that once welcomed Syrians fleeing the civil war are now forcing them to return as Assad is feted by the Arab world

The Guardian - UK

Refugee Food Festival: How love of multicultural cuisine aids integration

While the right to asylum is enshrined in both European and international law, asylum seekers and refugees are confronted with a host of administrative and social challenges, with the recurring shipwrecks in the Mediterranean serving as a grim testament to these obstacles. In reaction, ordinary citizens have stepped up to…

France 24

After the Morrison government, we hoped for a new way on refugees. Instead it is a brutal business as usual

The last refugee is off Nauru, but Australians will still pay $350m a year to keep the island’s detention centre ready for future arrivals

The Guardian - AU

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Belfast charity helping refugee school children integrate into society

The charity held a number of workshops at St Mary's and Stranmillis University Colleges

Belfast Live

City could open as many as 5 migrant shelters

Potential sites for new shelters were identified in a memo distributed to Chicago City Council members before a meeting Wednesday of the Council’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Committee.

Chicago Sun-Times

How music therapy can help rebuild the lives of refugees

Over the past 20 years, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide due to conflict has reached a figure in excess of 90 million. This has more than doubled since the early 1990s, a time period labelled “the decade of displacement” by the United Nations Refugee Agency.…

The Conversation

The Mancunian Way: A cautionary tale?

Looming skyscrapers PLUS anti-social patrons AND a 'welcoming' city

Manchester Evening News

'I packed my bags and moved my family to Oldham for a better life'

Mum-of-two Kana Josée, who was born in Rwanda, moved to Oldham after fleeing domestic violence and said the UK has finally given her a 'sense of belonging'

Manchester Evening News

On World Refugee Day, cuisines from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Myanmar, came together in Chennai

Chennai got a taste of traditional dishes from Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Afganistan like Kabuli pulao, dhooi pila and sodhi cooked by refugees residing in Tamil Nadu at the Refugee Food Festival in Semmozhi Poonga.

The Hindu

Fighting for a life: The Afghan refugees finding hope in MMA

Afghan mixed martial arts fighters living abroad try to bridge gap between poverty and glory after Taliban bans sport.

Al Jazeera

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Australia brings its last refugee on the Pacific island of Nauru to its mainland

Australia's government, which announced earlier this month that it would be moving refugees off of Nauru, confirmed to media that it will pay $350 million annually to keep the Nauru facility open.

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners alarmed by rejection of refugees using ‘safe and legal routes’

Two-thirds of those seeking family reunion in the UK who are initially turned down succeed at appeal, says Ramfel charity

Manchester Evening News

Refugee sleeping at Piccadilly Station trekked through mountains and camped in Calais to get here

For Refugee Week, we spoke to five refugees living in Greater Manchester. They revealed why they moved, how they got here and what life is like for them in the place they now call home

Radio France Internationale

Turkey continues to host more refugees than anyone else, but for how long?

Turkey's re-elected president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is standing by his policy to give shelter to millions of refugees. Bordering Syria and spanning Europe and Asia, Turkey is the world's biggest host of people seeking international asylum – but public unease over the policy could threaten that.

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Daily Mirror

Refugee celebrates 'sense of stability at last' as UK offers hope and relief from suffering

Speaking to Mirror to mark the end of Refugee Week, mum-of-two Kana Josée, born in Rwanda, praised how "welcoming and warm" the UK has been since she fled domestic violence

The Guardian - UK

Happy endings: the Syrian refugee’s restaurant that you helped thrive

Ghofran Hamza was one of 15 immigrant chefs featured in a Guardian special last year. How is she doing now?

Al Jazeera

Last refugee held on Nauru arrives in Australia

While offshore policy is being wound down, campaigners say ‘dark chapter’ will not end until last refugees leave PNG.

The National (Scotland)

The Glasgow football club helping refugees to access sport

ANY football fan will likely be familiar with Italian manager Arrigo Sacchi’s iconic quote that it’s “the most important of the least…

The Guardian - AU

Last refugee on Nauru evacuated as Australian government says offshore processing policy remains

Decention centre on Pacific island ‘ready to receive and process’ any new unauthorised maritime arrivals at an annual cost of $350m

The Hindu

A ‘house’ away from home: Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu

Regardless of some economic progress that they may have experienced since they moved to Tamil Nadu in search of sanctuary, there remains a widespread feeling of discomfort among them about still being identified as refugees

Bangkok Post

Australia to spend millions on empty refugee hub

Australia will continue funding its controversial offshore detention processing centre on the Pacific island of Nauru even as the facility’s remaining refugees leave, in an effort to dissuade people-smugglers from sending boats to the country, according to local media.

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