Migrant crisis: EU quota plan to take 20,000 refugees
Source: BBC
Summary: The European Commission has unveiled a new blueprint for dealing with the EU's migration crisis, including a controversial plan for national quotas.The EU aims to bring 20,000 refugees to Europe in the next two years, as part of the plan, at a cost of €50m.
Read more about the EU Migrant crisis in the NYTimes and the Guardian
Source: BBC
Summary: The European Commission has unveiled a new blueprint for dealing with the EU's migration crisis, including a controversial plan for national quotas.The EU aims to bring 20,000 refugees to Europe in the next two years, as part of the plan, at a cost of €50m.
Read more about the EU Migrant crisis in the NYTimes and the Guardian
Rohingya Refugees Denied By Malaysia As Humanitarian Crisis Deepens
Source: Huffington Post
Summary: Malaysia has turned away a boat with more than 500 Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis after providing them with fuel and provisions, a government official said Thursday.
View Marta Tucci's photographs of the Rohingya refugees here.
Source: Huffington Post
Summary: Malaysia has turned away a boat with more than 500 Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis after providing them with fuel and provisions, a government official said Thursday.
View Marta Tucci's photographs of the Rohingya refugees here.
Thousands of refugees pour into Rwanda from Burundi
Source: Washington Post
Summary: Two decades after Rwanda’s civil war, thousands of refugees are pouring in from neighboring Burundi, seeking refuge from their own volatile political situation.
Source: Washington Post
Summary: Two decades after Rwanda’s civil war, thousands of refugees are pouring in from neighboring Burundi, seeking refuge from their own volatile political situation.
Ukraine's refugees find solace in Poland, Europe's most homogenous society
Source: The Guardian
Summary: As sunlight streams through the windows of Warsaw’s Church of the Basilian Fathers, a priest in gold robes swings a clanking censer around the altar... The congregation is mostly made up of ethnic Ukrainians, members of a community that numbers hundreds of thousands and has been growing rapidly since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Source: The Guardian
Summary: As sunlight streams through the windows of Warsaw’s Church of the Basilian Fathers, a priest in gold robes swings a clanking censer around the altar... The congregation is mostly made up of ethnic Ukrainians, members of a community that numbers hundreds of thousands and has been growing rapidly since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
