Solving the world’s refugee crisis
The EU takes one step forward, with a long way left to go. EU leaders have taken a positive step forward by agreeing to share responsibility for 120,000 asylum-seekers. But […]
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Volunteers help refugees survive while Europe’s leaders still search for solutions
By Eliza Goroya in Kos, Greece and Khairunissa Dhala and Lorna Hayes in Berlin, Germany. From Greece to Germany, volunteers are joining forces to help newly-arrived refugees and migrants get […]
Canada takes small but disappointing steps forward for Syrian Refugees
By Gloria Nafziger, Amnesty Canada’s Refugee Coordinator. , The recent announcement to bring 10,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to Canada by September 2016 has the appearance of being a step […]
Syria’s refugee crisis in numbers: the latest
Refugees in the region More than 4 million refugees from Syria (95%) are in just five countries Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt: Lebanon hosts approximately 1.2 million refugees from […]
Time for Europe to end the refugee shame
By Gauri van Gulik, Deputy Europe Director at Amnesty International. Follow Gauri on Twitter @GaurivanGulik. A solemn moment of silence. The world over, this is the traditional response when lives […]
Chilling reminders of Syria for refugees trapped on Macedonia’s border
By Giorgos Kosmopoulos, Director of Amnesty International Greece , The view was staggering upon my arrival in the village of Idomeni, near Greece’s border with the former Yugoslav Republic of […]
Untold Stories of Syria’s Most Vulnerable Refugees
By Geoffrey Mock, orginally published on Amnesty USA blog What happens when a crisis so prolongs that the world tires of it? You get 3.7 million Syrian refugees. You get […]
My Door is Open for Refugees
by Gloria Nafziger, Campaigner, Refugees & Migrants, Amnesty International Canada On June 14, under the banner of ‘My Door is Open for Refugees,’ Amnesty members and friends walked in support […]
Syrians struggling to begin new lives in Istanbul
By Anna Shea, Legal Adviser on Refugee and Migrant Rights at Amnesty International. What struck me most when I met Zeinah (not her real name), a 29-year-old Syrian refugee in […]
Gay Syrian refugees struggle to survive in Lebanon
By Khairunissa Dhala, Refugee Researcher at Amnesty International When Khalil, 26, entered Lebanon having escaped the conflict and humanitarian crisis in Syria, he thought his life would finally improve. But […]
North-East Syria
People detained following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) armed group are facing systematic violations and dying in large numbers due to inhumane conditions in north-east Syria. The […]
Say No To A Bad Deal With Turkey
By Salil Shetty (Amnesty International @SalilShetty), Ken Roth (Human Rights Watch @Ken Roth), and Catherine Woollard (ECRE @ecre) , Let’s not confuse desperation for legality when it comes to Europe’s […]