Canada faces calls to rescind planned cuts to refugee healthcare scheme
Health workers and rights advocates say co-payments, set to take effect on May 1, amount to ‘de facto denial of care’.
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Canada’s Bill C-12 an ‘attack on refugee, migrant rights’: Advocates
Rights groups say new law restricting asylum will put thousands ‘at risk of persecution, violence and precarity’.
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What’s happened in Gaza and the West Bank since the start of the Iran war?
Israel has closed the Rafah border crossing and Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have continued.
South Africa summons new US ambassador over ‘undiplomatic remarks’
US President Trump has claimed South Africa is engaged in a campaign of white persecution, which Pretoria denies.
At least 14 dead after migrant boat crashes into Turkish coastguard vessel
Collision involving inflatable boat carrying migrants or refugees occurs off southwestern Turkiye’s Antalya province.
At least 217 killed in Israel’s Lebanon attacks as Beirut, south, east hit
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group urges Israelis to evacuate border areas as Israel continues to bomb the country.
UK to end study visas for Myanmar, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Sudan students
The ban on students from the four countries comes amid a rise in anti-immigration sentiment in the UK.
Deadly journeys: Refugees, migrants risk everything to reach Europe
Crossing to Europe offers hope but exposes refugees to peril, as militia abuse persists in unsafe Libya.
Near-blind Rohingya refugee dies after US agents left him far from home
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, was a nearly blind Rohingya refugee from Rakhine state in Myanmar, family members said.
Displaced Sudanese women caught up in war suffer wretched Ramadan
Women in Sudan’s Al-Sarraf camp face hunger and disease during a desperate holy month.
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Yemen’s ‘Mogadishu’: Somali refugees face poverty, instability in Aden
Generations of refugees in Aden endure poverty, lack identity, and cling to fading memories of Somalia’s distant shores.
