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Families spread across rich and poor countries are acutely aware of relatives’ lack of access to vaccineFor months she had been dreaming of it and finally Susheela Moonsamy was able to do it: get together with her relatives and give them a big hug. Throughout the pandemic she had only seen her siblings, nieces and nephews fully “masked up” at socially distanced gatherings. But...

Boat carrying migrants from Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Bangladesh was heading towards Italy from Libya when it sankAt least 43 people have drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, while another 84 were rescued, humanitarian organisation the Tunisian Red Crescent has said.The boat had set off from Zuwara, on Libya’s north-west coast, carrying migrants...

German rescue group issues video of Libyans’ ‘brutal attack’ on boat of migrant families in MediterraneanFootage has emerged that appears to show the Libyan coastguard firing on a boat in distress carrying migrant families in the Mediterranean Sea.Rescue workers from the German organisation Sea-Watch recorded the coastguard patrol vessel apparently trying to ram the small wooden boat and firing shots in an attempt to...

Camara Fantamadi died after picking tomatoes in scorching sun – critics question if ban will be respectedAuthorities in southern Italy have prohibited outdoor farm work during the hottest hours of the day after the death of a Malian farm worker, but a representative of the African community in Puglia says the ban does not go far enough.Officials in the region have banned farm work...

Recent arrivals find themselves choosing between their fairytale life in Australia and desperation to see familyCovid travel restrictions in AustraliaNSW Covid restrictions; NSW exposure sites and cases mapVaccine rollout tracker; Download the free Guardian app; Get our morning email briefing“We need to decide how long we can live like this,” says Jennie Edeleanu.Fifteen months after the coronavirus pandemic brought international travel to a standstill,...

When a 72-year-old man fell unconscious into the Nervión River in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, Senegalese migrant Mouhammad Diouf did not hesitate. Diouf jumped into the river and for 15 minutes kept the man afloat. The 27-year-old arrived in Spain four years ago after a 20-month journey. After the video of the rescue went viral, a request was opened on Change.org to reward...

More than 1,800 people sign petition to help Mouhammad Diouf, from Senegal, who jumped into Bilbao river to stop drowningsMore than 1,800 people have backed a call for Spanish officials to regularise the immigration status of an undocumented Senegalese man after his second rescue of a stranger from drowning in the main river in Bilbao.Mouhammad Diouf was out with a friend on Sunday afternoon...

Ingeborg Beugel was detained for ‘facilitating the illegal stay of a foreigner’ and faces up to a year in jailA Dutch journalist based in Greece has been arrested on the Greek island of Hydra for hosting an Afghan asylum seeker in her home and could face up to a year in prison if charged and convicted.Ingeborg Beugel, 61, a freelance correspondent for Dutch media...

Judge says Gaiyathiri Murugayan was mentally ill but understood what she was doing in abusing Piang Ngaih Don from MyanmarSingapore’s high court has sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison for killing her Burmese maid after more than a year of abuse that included starving, torture and beatings.Singaporean Gaiyathiri Murugayan pleaded guilty in February to culpable homicide among 28 charges related to her...

Country at a ‘tipping point’ that could affect wider region, experts warn, as ‘donor fatigue’ causes aid shortfallThe continuing exodus of millions of Venezuelans is reaching “a tipping point” as the response to the crisis remains critically underfunded.More than 5.6 million have left the country since 2015, when it had a population of 30 million, escaping political, economic and social hardships. It has become...

In One Thousand Dreams, award-winning photographer Robin Hammond hands the camera to refugees. Often reduced by the media’s toxic or well-meaning narratives, the portraits and interviews capture a different and more complex tale‘Never stop dreaming’: refugees get behind the camera – in picturesRobin Hammond has spent two decades crisscrossing the developing world and telling other people’s stories. From photographing the Rohingya forced out of...

Coalition of rights groups demanding Frontex be defunded claim EU policies have ‘killed over 40,555 people since 1993’Activists, captains of rescue ships and about 80 human rights organisations across the world have launched an international campaign calling for the European border agency to be defunded and dismantled.In an open letter sent last week to the European Commission, the Council of the EU and the...

Gil Arias Fernández says EU border agency, which is under investigation for illegal migrant pushbacks, cannot stop far-right infiltrating its ranksThe former deputy head of Europe’s border and coastguard agency has said the state of the beleaguered force “pains” him and that it is vulnerable to the “alarming” rise of populism across the continent.In his first interview since leaving office, Gil Arias Fernández, former...

Three-year-old and her family held in immigration facility for years as government fights to deport themThe plight of a three-year old girl who has spent nearly her entire life in Australian immigration detention facilities has galvanised opposition to the country’s offshore detention system.Tharnicaa Murugappan was evacuated to a children’s hospital on Monday where she was diagnosed with a blood infection and pneumonia, which she...

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UN opposed bill for fear it would erode refugees’ rights and encourage other EU states to follow suitDenmark has passed a law enabling it to process asylum seekers outside Europe, drawing anger from human rights advocates, the UN and European Commission.Politicians in the wealthy Scandinavian nation, which has gained notoriety for its hardline immigration policies over the last decade, passed the law with 70...

Dr Cristina Catteneo made it her mission to put a name to each man, woman and child found in the overcrowded hulls of sunken boats bound for EuropeAt a glance, Dr Cristina Cattaneo assessed the lifeless body on the floor of an abandoned Sicilian hospital – a thin, young Eritrean refugee about 180cm tall. While most of the corpse was intact, his face and...

In 2016, the US state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral – but all was not as it seemed. By Yepoka Yeebo Continue reading...