Category: Europe
File photo shows African migrants aboard the Red Cross boat “LS Hermes” in the port of Tarifa, southern Spain after being rescued on August 12, 2014 Almost 150 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift boats have been rescued off the coast of Spain in less than a week, officials said Sunday. In the […]
A senior United Nations refugee official today stressed the need for urgent action by European nations to protect migrants at sea following recent incidents involving hundreds of people stranded in the Mediterranean while attempting to reach the continent. Vincent Cochetel, Europe Bureau Director for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said in a statement […]
Amid continuing fighting and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Ukraine, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced it is launching an initiative aimed at ferrying aid to the country’s internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as other vulnerable citizens trapped by the ongoing hostilities. The latest figures from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, […]
According to the UN report, an average number of 36 people lose their lives everyday due to intense fighting in populated areas of eastern Ukraine. The report emphasizes that a lot of civilians are trapped in urban areas and seek the ways to escape the fighting in the region. The crisis inside the conflict zones […]
Estimations show that 10000 people have fled Crimea and restless eastern Ukraine to other parts of the country because of fear of insecurity and prosecution. Chaos and violation has affected many people, while in some parts shocked locals faced a mass outside their homes, broken windows, destroyed walls, and pools of blood. Everything is destroyed, […]
