Refugees

From June 16 to June 23, Americans participating in the challenge will be living off "ration packs" of rice, lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans and canned sardines in support of refugees.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex, works with Angelina Jolie's Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative.

"I cannot understand this way of thinking from White House advisor Jared Kushner," Sanders tweeted.

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s far-right deputy prime minister, decried the “bestiality” of the arson suspect, a minor from Morocco, in incendiary Facebook posts.

The far-right minister in charge of asylum for Lower Austria said refugees would be required to sign the pledge along with their official asylum applications.

A child defecting from North Korea to meet her parents, who had already escaped Kim Jong Un’s regime, was equipped with a GPS tracking device.

First daughter-in-law and 2020 Donald Trump campaign adviser Lara Trump said Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel allowing in refugees is one of "the worst things that has ever happened to Germany."

"Stripping these human rights protections from refugee claimants is callous, but doing so through an undemocratic process is even worse," said the litigation committee chair of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.

After nearly 18 years of continuous war, formal peace is now on the agenda, but so is meltdown.

Moscow and Damascus blame Washington for "the suffering of Syrian citizens forcibly held in the Rukban refugee camp by U.S.-controlled armed groups."

The Libyan coastguard has enjoyed all kind of support from European governments in exchange for preventing refugees and migrants from reaching European shores - even if such cooperation results in torture.

The U.S. and Russia have accused one another of blocking critical assistance to the dying population of the Rukban refugee camp located in a Pentagon-controlled stretch of southern Syria.

“Any time a refugee or immigrant committed a gruesome crime in the United States, for example, Stephen Miller would come down to the [communications] office demanding a press release about it,” wrote Cliff Sims.

I had a chance to witness the human stories behind this crisis first-hand. The U.S., governments across South America and international donors must step up to help.

World Health Organization dispels the falsehood that irregular migrants and refugees spread sickness among host communities in Europe.

“Congress declares that at this time there is no president of the republic," opposition legislator Jorge Milan said. "Let’s start the process to recover the constitutional order."

"We are the ones now to keep the light shining; we are the ones to keep the hope alive," said Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. "In the hardest of years, it becomes all the more important."

With the world conceding that Bashar al-Assad has won the war in Syria, refugees in Turkey are trapped. If they return home, their lives are in danger. If they stay, they face uncertainty and destitution.

Hungary was the only other country to reject the adoption of the UN Global Compact on Refugees.

“I urge [Trump] to be mindful of this proposed policy's impacts on thousands of families," said Democratic Representative Stephanie Murphy, who came to the U.S. as a Vietnam refugee.

William Barr "was a strong advocate for a policy that set the stage for the treatment of Guantanamo detainees during the war on terror," ACLU Legal Director David Cole said.

“It’s about practicing what we preach,” participating Pastor Jessa van der Vaart said.

The U.S. and Russia have blamed one another for letting conditions in the Rukban refugee camp get so bad.

The International Monetary Fund said inflation could top 10 million percent in 2019.

"We failed them. And for that we are sorry," the Canadian prime minister said.

Most of the museum's exhibits were removed and kept in secret locations for their protection.

Although figures are difficult to calculate amid the fog of Syria's war, refugees and displaced persons are rebuilding cities ravaged by conflict.

The Trump administration allowed just 20 Syrian Christian refugees into the United States in the 2018 fiscal year despite campaign promises to make the U.S. a refuge for Christians.

“His statements on social media shamed Malaysia,” the country’s immigration chief Mustafar Ali said. “[He] was arrested yesterday because he was in a restricted area without a boarding pass.”

“I know that the regime cannot be trusted,” Jude Ash, a Syrian activist who is now an asylum applicant in the U.S., told Newsweek. “Any attempt by the regime to facilitate any transition or resolution, the main problem there is trust,” he explained.