Refugee Issues
15 Threads
No, Tommy Robinson is not in solitary confinement for telling the truth. Jamal, a 15-year-old Syrian refugee, was attacked by a 16-year-old at Almondbury Community School on Octobe...
🇩🇪#Germany: More than 500,000 new #Migrants could arrive in the country in 2024, experts warn. The country has already taken in a record number of #Refugees this year, including...
10) The choice to admit a significant number of Rohingya refugees was largely politically and religiously motivated. Politicians sought to portray themselves as champions of relig...
Maryam is an Afghan child who lives next to my local markaz - I give her a little money whenever I go by on my walks and we chat for a few minutes. Today, Maryam let me know that h...
1. A thread on how refugees might react in the real world to the Illegal Migration Bill when it becomes law. I'm interested in suggestions from others and might write it up into a...
A quick point about the Iran protests: Iranians make up the majority of people crossing the English Channel in small boats to get to the UK (51%, by far the largest group, from 201...
Muslims (Taliban) cheated us, they imprisoned us, butchered our hair in prison: #Sikhs thank Modi govt for rescuing them from Afghanistan. 55 more Refugees arrive in India from Af...
“To run an international film festival in a refugee camp in the Sahara is nothing short of a miracle” (Javier Bardem) One month til the screens of @FiSahara light up the dunes Th...
On Pakistan accepting Afghan refugees fleeing the same Taliban that was trained and armed by Pakistan, Germany’s FM: “it’s an enormous task that Pakistan is shouldering on behalf o...
There’s this rising class of Arabs, Asians, Africans who are all refugees/victims in some way, who think that their experience is going to help them gain good political careers Th...
When I was 3, soldiers evicted all families in the villages next to me. 700 people, from 14 villages, in the Southern West Bank. They became refugees. It happened in 99'. This evic...
Hierarchy. "This isn't a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan ... This is a relatively civilised, relatively European (I have to choose those words carefully too...
The refugees & IDPs camps coordination spokesperson issued a statement regarding @UNITAMS alleged meeting with IDPs representatives. He said they have never received an invitation...
"Americans like to imagine war stories featuring their heroic soldiers, sailors and pilots. The reality is that refugee stories are also war stories." -- @viet_t_nguyen https://t.c...
"Why are you leaving the UAE? After 27 years?" A colleague asked me. Story time.
