Vienna hotel a model project giving refugees hope
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Vienna hotel a model project giving refugees hope
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#Ukraine : World’s unseen refugee crisis
More than two million people are now refugees or internally displaced due to war but their plight is little reported.
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Half of some 200 refugees living in Athens park are children, says NGO | News | ekathimerini.com
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There are a total of 43 families living in tents in Pedion tou Areos park in central Athens, according to the Greek Refugee Forum.
The non-governmental organization said on Friday that a total of 202 refugees are living in the park. Of those, 103 are children.
Afghan refugees find safety and shelter in Athens park
Athens, Greece - Pedion tou Areos, one of the largest public parks in Athens, has become a makeshift campground for refugees. Nearly 450 Afghan refugees, most of them women and children, are sheltering in the park, having set up tents among the lush green bushes and thick-trunked palms.
Migrants en Grèce : Athènes, dernière escale avant la route des Balkans
Des centaines de Syriens arrivent tous les jours à Athènes depuis les îles grecques, en route vers l’Europe. Jeunes diplômés, familles, hommes seuls, ils viennent de Syrie, mais aussi d’Irak ou d’Afghanistan. De leur chambre d’hôtel jusqu’à la place #Omonia, récits d’exil en texte et en images.
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Philippines’ generation of sex tourism children
Weekends are busy on Fields Avenue in Balibago. Young women greet meandering men and invite them into the bars that line the street. Known as the “supermarket of sex”, Angeles City’s red light district has fast become a top destination for sex tourism.
Male travellers from Asia, Australia, the US, Europe and the Middle East constitute the bulk of the arrivals at Clark Airport, a former US military airbase. From there, many flock to the bars and clubs of Fields Avenue - and to the impoverished young women who work there.
Acquiring their company for the night is straightforward. For a small fee, the men obtain what is known as an “early work release” that permits them to take the woman of their choice back to their hotel.
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The battle for Beirut’s skyline
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Civil activists have long lamented the government’s lack of concern over preserving Beirut’s architectural heritage, accusing it of prioritising lucrative real estate deals over the more expensive task of conserving the remaining Ottoman and French mandate-era buildings across the city.
The most recent statistic from 2013 showed that 80 percent of the buildings, originally listed as historical landmarks after the war ended in 1990, have since been destroyed.
Yet calls by NGOs such as Save Beirut Heritage and the Association for the Protection of Lebanese Heritage for the state to spend more money and time on the issue have largely fallen on deaf ears.
Instead, the task of keeping such houses from ruin and demolition has fallen to individuals and non-state actors.
#Photoreportage : Les déplacés oubliés de #Libye
Deux chars marquent l’entrée du camp, qui accueille plus de 300 personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays (PDIP) dans une région montagneuse isolée du nord-ouest de la Libye. Au bord de la route, des barbelés doublés de bâches au logo du Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) apportent aux abris de fortune un semblant d’intimité.
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Libya’s coasts continue to be packed with migrants trying to leave the country for passage across the Mediterranean Sea.
On May 18 European Union ministers, in response to large scale emergencies, decided to launch an air and sea mission in Libya that could destroy the human traffickers’ boats that transport people across the Mediterranean to Europe.
Just last week the Libyan Coastguard rescued 700 migrants from five rafts with unsafe standards. These migrants have been detained in the Alguaiha detention centre, that currently holds 400 men, women, and children, many of whom are from Eritrea, Somalia and Niger.
The men are held in group cells, each containing up to 60 people. They are allowed to exit their cells only to eat a meagre meal, always under the watchful eye of guards armed with plastic and metal batons.
Al-Zawiyha detention centre, meanwhile, is located near Tripoli and houses 821 adult men and adolescent boys. They are also locked in large and unclean cells, each with as many as 100 people, without enough space to lay down at night.
Many of the men are sick with scabies and malaria. Due to the war in Libya, it has become too risky for doctors to reach this isolated facility.
Some of the detainees said they were held by the traffickers for three months in a cave, before they were able to depart for Europe.
The raft broke shortly after they left the coast, they say. Though they lost everything during their initial attempt to reach Europe, many say they are planning to ask their families for money to try to cross the sea again.
One detained migrant said that every attempt to cross the sea is a gamble with their lives; a gamble they are willing to make.
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Afghan refugees stranded in freezing Serbian conditions
Escaping continuing violence, many Afghans have fled their war-torn country looking for a better life in the EU.
Hundreds of refugees have ended up in the town of Subotica, northern Serbia, as they wait for human traffickers to smuggle them across the border into Hungary, an EU member state.
Once over the border, the refugees will have entered the Schengen zone, which allows EU citizens to cross into member countries without border checks - making the onward journey of the migrants much easier.
Hungarian authorities patrol the frontier region permanently to prevent migrants crossing into the EU.
On a daily basis, dozens of would-be immigrants are caught by border police and a voluntary organisation of civil guards in a narrow border region south of Szeged, 170km south of Budapest, the Hungarian capital.
With temperatures dropping to -20 degrees celcius during the winter, circumstances are becoming dire for the migrants as they wait in their makeshift tents and temporary shelters to cross the border.