India and the Myanmar crisis: Death of Justice, Death of Morality After alienating the people of India’s north east, the BJP regime’s violative policy Myanmaar refugees threatens to alienate the country from neighbours to our east, apart from violating our time-tested, human rights and humanitarian driven approach towards asylum-seekers
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In 1939, M.S. St. Louis, a German ship carrying 937 Jews trying to flee Third Reich called at many ports in Cuba, the USA and Canada seeking refuge. They were turned down by immigration authorities in Cuba, the US and Canada. Twenty four days after it left the shores of Europe, M.S. St. Louis returned to Europe. The world’s refusal of the St. Louis’ desperate refugees was a death sentence for 254 refugees. Many that didn t die were interned in concentration camps. In 2012, the US Department of State formally apologised to the survivors of the ship. In 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trud
In its latest lurch to the far right, Denmark plans to send some refugees back to Syria kake.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kake.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It felt like paradise when Dania and Hussam first moved to Denmark.
They did not speak a word of Danish yet the Scandinavian country was an outpost of calm for the siblings, who fled the destruction and death that followed the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.
“I can hardly remember anything but war in Syria,” Dania, 22, told CNN of her time growing up on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Damascus. She said what drew her family of five to Denmark was its reputation for welcoming refugees being the first country in the world to sign the United Nations Refugee Convention in 1951.