Deaths by fire among migrants are being investigated as potential murders in Mexico

On Wednesday, Mexican prosecutors revealed a homicide investigation into the deaths of 39 migrants who perished in a detention center fire earlier this month. Since surveillance footage appeared to show guards fleeing as flames engulfed a cell with migrants locked inside, authorities came under i...

EU healthcare institutions are responding to the entrance of 2.5 million Ukrainian migrants

The EU's healthcare services, already overburdened by the COVID-19 epidemic, are scrambling to cope with the massive flood of new entrants from Ukraine — over 2.5 million as of Friday (11 March).

According to UNHCR figures, Poland has already welcomed almost 1.5 million indivi...

Migrants in Thailand Suffer from Covid

The pandemic has challenged everyone around the world but the migrants particularly those in Thailand have been pushed more than anyone.

In order to mark its 70th year of action, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) organized a film screening and photo exhibition on 14th De...

WHO’s Announcement for Healthcare of Migrants in Europe

Although refugees and migrants are not leading luxurious lives anyways, winters can be life-threatening.

In many regions across the world, refugees suffer because of geopolitical reasons. In the last few weeks, thousands of migrants have been forced into refugee camps at the border of B...

19,000 migrants gathered on the north coast of Colombia, near Panama border

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• 19,000 migrants gathered on the north coast of Colombia
• More than 50,000 people have crossed the Colombia-Panama border

Around 19,000 migrants, were gathered on the north coast of Colombia, on Wednesday. These people were ...

Major fire broke out at migrant camp on Greek island of Samos

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• Fire broke out at a migrant camp in Greek
• The fire broke out in abandoned sheds, no reports of injury

On Sunday, evening a major fire broke out at the Vathy migrant camp on the island of Samos. The Greek Ministry of Migrat...

MIGRANTS' TRADE UNION ASKS S. KOREAN GOVT. TO IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS

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• Migrants' Trade Union asks S. Korean govt. to improve working conditions.
• Foreigners are now allowed to land jobs of sorting and loading parcels.
• The Ministry of Justice has preannounced a revision of an enforcement d...

AUSTRALIA WITNESSED FIRST DECREASE IN POPULATION SINCE WORLD WAR I

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• Australia has experienced its first drop in the population since World War 1
• The Australian Bureau of Statistics said that, the population has been increased by less than one percent in the year 2020

According to the figu...

US PRESIDENT BIDEN URGES MIGRANTS NOT TO COME TO THE US AS CRITICISM GROWS

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• Talking in an interview with ABC News, addressing the migrants Biden said “Yes I can say quite clearly don’t come over. Don’t leave your town or city or community.”

• This statement from the US President Joe Biden comes after his ...

UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE SIGNED NEW AGREEMENT TO STOP THE CHANNEL MIGRANTS CROSSING

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• The United Kingdom and France have signed a new deal to try for stopping the illegal movement of the migrants or people across the English Channel
• The home secretary of the United Kingdom said that, under the deal, number pf police officer...

GREECE TO OFFER 50% TAX INCENTIVE FOR THE WORKERS AND DIGITAL MIGRANTS

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• Greece is preparing a law to offer 50 percent tax incentives to the workers returning to Greece
• The advisor of prime minister said, Greece is hoping to attract the digital migrants after the novel corona virus pandemic

An...

GREECE TO USE SOUNDWAVE GUNS NEAR THE BORDERS WITH TURKEY TO PREVENT MIGRANT CROSSING

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• The government of Greece will be using the soundwave guns near the Turkish Borders for preventing the crossings of the migrants
• Athens have also sent additional border guards, 10 armoured vehicles and other support near the Turkish Borders...

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AGREED TO TAKE MINOR MIGRANTS AFTER FIRE IN MORIA

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• Germany said that, 10 European Countries have agreed to take 400 un-accompanied minors from Greece
• Most of the migrants will be going to Germany and France as per the interior minister

Horst Seehofer, who is the interior ...

UNITED KINGDOM: MINISTER SAYS FRANCE MUST STOP CHANNEL MIGRANTS CROSSING

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• United Kingdom is facing problems due to the increase in the illegal migrants from France
• The United Kingdom ministers said that France must find a solution for this problem

United Kingdom is facing an unacceptable rise i...

HUNGARY: CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER SAID UNCONTROLLED MIGRATION CAN PUT PUBLIC HEALTH INTO ‘EXTREME DANGER’

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• The Chief Medical Officer, Celicia Muller said that uncontrolled migration can put the public health in Hungary into extreme danger.
• Around 18,000 migrants have tried to cross the Serbian-Hungarian border illegally.

On Thursday, Celicia M...

SC TO CENTRE, STATES: 15 DAYS ENOUGH TO TRANSPORT MIGRANTS HOME

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• The Indian Railways have operated more than 4,227 trains and have ferried more than 57 lakh migrants

• The Supreme Court stated that all states should present a record on the strategies made by them for employing all the migrants

• The Gov...

80 MIGRANTS LOST THEIR LIVES ON SHRAMIK SPECIAL TRAINS

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• Shramik special trains started operating from May 1 and have ferried lakhs of migrants home

• After the large-scale return of migrants, the states of Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar have reported significant increase in the number of coronavirus cases

VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS’ DEATHS – 26 SUSPECTS ARRESTED BY FRANCE AND BELGIUM

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• 26 suspects, all smugglers were arrested by France and Belgium for mass murder of 39 Vietnamese migrants.
• The Irish and British investigators were involved in the probe which also included raids i...

NRAI TO CHIP IN WITH FOOD TO THOUSAND’S OF MIGRANTS IN WAKE OF COVID-19

• NRAI will supply 10 million meals to feed the destitute during the lockdown.
• The gargantuan initiative will be crowd-funded.

National Restaurant Associations of India and Online restaurants and food aggregators including Swiggy and Zomato are putting their bes...

Saudi doors wide open for skilled Bangladeshi workers

After concluding the joint economic council, Dhaka stated that Saudi is keen on hiring more skilled workers from Bangladesh. Bangladesh has always been a key supplier of workers to the kingdom, last year 400,000 workers migrated from Bangladesh to the kingdom of Saudi. With 1.5 million employed i...