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Restaurant run by Sri Lankan refugees in Thoothukudi completes one year, wants to spread its wings

Olaiputtu, a restaurant run by Sri Lankan refugee women in Thoothukudi, has completed 1 year. With help from UNHCR, Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, Social Welfare Minister P. Geetha Jeevan, Thoothukudi Mayor N. P. Jagan and the Collector, the women have been able to make the restaurant self-reliant. The Thoothukudi Corporation…

The Hindu

Record 114 million people displaced globally, says UN

As wars rage from Ukraine to Gaza, the number of displaced people is at a record high, the UN estimates.

Al Jazeera

The petition challenging Rohingya refugees’ ‘illegal detention’ in India | Explained

The Hindu explains the writ petition in the Supreme Court alleging that India’s arrest and detention of the Rohingya refugees is illegal and unconstitutional.

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Refugee children's education in Rwanda under threat because of reduced UN funding

U.N. funding cuts to refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps

The Independent UK

South Sudan buckles from stream of refugees fleeing Sudanese war

South Sudan is struggling to cope with the increasing flow of refugees pouring from neighbouring Sudan, where a six-month conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands of people. Visiting the country this week to assess the situation, three French MPs met with President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar.

Radio France Internationale

‘We’re so fearful’: Pakistan rounds up Afghan refugees for deportation

Rewards offered for turning in ‘illegal Afghans’ as refugees pay price for tensions between Pakistani government and Taliban

The Guardian - UK

Promises over treatment of asylum seekers in Rwanda ‘aspirational’, court told

Lawyers for the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, made their legal arguments on Tuesday.

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Home Office accused of accepting Rwanda’s promises on UK asylum plan without scrutiny

The government is challenging a Court of Appeal ruling that Rwanda deportation plans are illegal

The Independent UK

Rwandan asylum system ‘woefully deficient’, Supreme Court told

The Government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to the east Africa nation is being considered by the UK’s highest court

The Independent UK

‘Trust us’ on Rwanda, says government in Supreme Court battle to save flagship immigration policy

A three-day hearing at the UK’s highest court began on Monday.

Evening Standard

Rwanda has ‘powerful incentives’ to stick to terms of deportation deal, Home Office tell Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is considering whether government plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda are lawful

The Independent UK

Rwanda ‘tortures and murders’, supreme court asylum plan hearing told

Home Office brings fresh legal challenge after court of appeal ruled UK’s deportation policy unlawful

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda safe but ‘less attractive’ than UK, Supreme Court told

A three-day hearing at the UK’s highest court began on Monday.

The Independent UK

Over 2500 dead, missing as 186,000 people cross Mediterranean to Europe in 2023

Over 2,500 people died or have gone missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year. Read further on Dynamite News:

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France 24

More than 2,500 migrants dead or missing in Mediterranean this year, UN says

The U.N. refugee agency said Thursday that some 186,000 migrants and refugees arrived in southern Europe so far this year, the vast majority in Italy.

Al Jazeera

More than 2,500 dead, missing as 186,000 cross Mediterranean in 2023

UN refugee agency says ‘no end in sight’ to the lives lost in Mediterranean and on land routes to sea departure points.

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak rejects Braverman claim multiculturalism has failed

Prime minister praises UK’s ‘fantastic multicultural democracy’ in contrast to comments made by home secretary

The Independent UK

UN refugee agency strongly rejects Braverman’s criticism of ‘crucial’ LGBT+ protections

Charities like ActionAid UK say her comments are ‘a direct affront to gender equality and human rights’

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The Independent UK

Elton John and Ian McKellen lead backlash over Braverman’s call to crack down on gay asylum seekers

Rocket Man issues rocket for home secretary as senior Tories warn Sunak: ‘Suella has lost us millions of pink votes’

The National (Scotland)

'Throwing refugees under bus': Humza Yousaf slams Suella Braverman's extreme speech

HUMZA Yousaf has slammed Suella Braverman off the back of a speech where she warned of the “existential threat” of uncontrolled migration.

The Guardian - UK

UN rebukes Suella Braverman over her attack on refugee convention

UNHCR defends 1951 convention after UK home secretary’s speech on ‘uncontrolled and illegal migration’

The Independent UK

Braverman refuses to rule out UK leaving Refugee Convention as UN hits back

The Home Secretary said uncontrolled migration poses an ‘existential’ threat to the West as she called for asylum rules to be tightened.

The Independent UK

UN refugee agency and charities reject Braverman asylum comments

The UNHCR said there is no a need for more restrictive interpretation on who qualifies for protection.

The Conversation

Environmental disasters and climate change force people to cross borders, but they're not recognised as refugees – they should be

As our planet warms, we’re experiencing more frequent and severe weather events, rising sea levels, prolonged droughts and altered ecosystems. These environmental shifts directly affect people’s livelihoods by destroying crops and depleting water sources. They make once-inhabitable areas uninhabitable.

The Guardian - UK

Braverman to ask world leaders to make refugee rules ‘fit for the modern age’

Home secretary’s address in Washington will urge reform of UN convention and has already prompted concern from charities

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