InfoMigrants speaks to journalist Gabriela Ramírez about the detention of refugees in Lithuania and a creative project that seeks to help them cope with their situation.
A group of Syrian refugees in Turkey is planning to form a caravan to reach the European Union. Organizers say Syrians are faced with discrimination and racism in Turkey and appealed to international organizations to facilitate the crossing.
Forty-eight people landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Friday, January 28 with a flight from Athens via a humanitarian corridor promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio.
InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/06/09
New concrete walls are being built around migrant camps in mainland Greece. The project is part of a government plan to modernize facilities, but there is strong opposition to the changes.
16-year-old Parwana Amiri fled Afghanistan and arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos in September 2019. Today she lives in the Ritsona migrant camp near Athens. Until a few weeks ago, she had no idea that she was soon to be cut off from the world by a three-meter-high concrete perimeter wall. I woke up as usual and got ready to go to my class, says a May 4 entry on Amiri s blog post, Letters from Ritsona . As I walked along, I noticed some bulldozers and many workers working by the back gate, constructing something… They told me that they were going to build a wall all around the camp.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/02/16
The UN refugee agency UNHCR says Jordan has opened a coronavirus vaccination center in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees. The facility is supposedly the first of its kind. It s the first vaccination center in the world to open in a refugee camp, Mohammed Hawari, spokesperson for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, told news agency
AFP on Monday (February 15).
According to
AFP, some 2,000 of the 80,000 inhabitants of the Zaatari camp on the border with Syria had signed up to receive the vaccination.
UNHCR spokesperson Hawari said that 1,200 refugees met the necessary criteria to be vaccinated preferentially. In Jordan, people older than 65, those with pre-existing conditions as well as health workers are vaccinated first.