Human Rights Watch: At Kabul airport on Tuesday, I met a group of Afghans – three women and 10 men – who had just arrived from Turkey. It was not a joyous homecoming. They had joined the waves of several hundred thousand Afghans whose bid for safer lives abroad in the face of worsening insecurity at
Phil Mercer VOA News October 18, 2016 SYDNEY — Australia has rejected allegations by human rights campaigners that conditions on a small South Pacific Island where migrants are kept “amount to torture.” A new Amnesty International report claims that many asylum-seekers held at the Australian-run camp on Nauru have attempted suicide to escape indefinite detention. Amnesty
Ayaz Gul VOA News October 16, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations says around 370,000 registered and undocumented Afghan refugees have returned home from neighboring Pakistan this year, with a significant spike seen since mid-July. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Kabul issued the figures Sunday, saying nearly 52,000 Afghans crossed
AP: They have come a long way, spent most of their money on smugglers and camped out in the open for weeks. For Afghan migrants stranded in the Balkans there is no turning back, even as the most likely prospect many of them face in the European Union could be deportation back to their country.
Tolo News: The Italian branch of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Centro Astalli, raised concerns over an agreement between the Afghan government and the European Union (EU) to cooperate on deportations of Afghan migrants. Centro Astalli head called it the latest blow by the EU to the dignity of human life, aggravated by a disproportionate waste of
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 5, 2016 More than 100 migrants who set off on foot toward Hungary to protest the European Union’s closed borders and deteriorating conditions for migrants in Serbia ended their march and returned to Belgrade. The migrants, mostly Afghans and Pakistanis, on October 5 were bussed to Belgrade from the town
Marthe van der Wolf VOA News | October 5, 2016 BRUSSELS — The international community pledged 15.2 billion dollars for Afghanistan’s development on Tuesday for the coming four years. The pledge, at comes at a time when the United States military is conducting airstrikes to support Afghan forces fighting the Taliban. The pledge, at a donors’
Press TV October 5, 2016 The European Union (EU) is holding a fund-raising conference for the cash-strapped government in Afghanistan, which has to tackle with a host of issues, including rampant militancy in the country. Leaders from more than 70 countries and 20 international organizations and agencies have gathered in the EU’s de facto capital
VOA News October 4, 2016 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations says more than 200,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their war-torn country from Pakistan this year, more than half of them within the past five weeks, despite intensification in Taliban-led hostilities in Afghanistan. The overall figures represent the highest number since 2007 when more than 360,000
Masood Farivar VOA News October 3, 2016 Afghanistan is appealing to European donors to open their wallets at an international donors’ conference Wednesday, arguing that jobs created through development projects will help stem the tide of migrants that is destabilizing the European continent. High unemployment combined with growing insecurity drove nearly 200,000 Afghans to Europe