Archive for the ‘Migration’ Category
About 40 migrants drown (75 rescued) after their boat sinks off Turkey’s western coast
Sunday, January 31st, 2016
If Europe isn’t going to welcome more than 1 million people a year, it will have to deport large numbers of them to countries plagued by social unrest and abject poverty.
Friday, January 29th, 2016** Sweden could send back 60,000-80,000 asylum seekers in the coming years.
** Under U.N. rules, countries are supposed to offer protection to refugees fleeing war and persecution. But some European countries also offer protection to people deemed at risk of torture or the death penalty or who are suffering from an exceptionally serious disease.
24 people attempting to cross to Europe from Turkey drowned when their boat sank off a Greek island, the Greek coast raising to at least 80 the number of migrants and refugees to have died at sea in the past week.
Friday, January 29th, 2016
A snowstorm engulfed Lebanon on the first day of the new year, cutting off mountain roads, isolating villages and worsening living conditions for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees.
Friday, January 1st, 2016
EU Migrant, Refugee Arrivals by Land and Sea Approach 1 000 000 in 2015
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015
European Refugee Migration: Security is as much of a priority as humanitarian relief
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
** “…..some of the Paris attackers whose Nov. 13 assaults killed 130 people entered Europe by infiltrating the throngs of migrants who have inundated Greek islands……”