Tag: Refugees and Displaced Persons
Bangladesh Shutters Dozens of Schools Set Up by Rohingya in Camps
KUTUPALONG CAMP, Bangladesh — Every morning, Mohammad Reyaz, a sixth grader, appears in uniform outside his school for…
Afghan Restaurateurs Provide Hope to Refugees Fleeing the Taliban
Hamasa Ebadi, 27, and her parents, Hamida, 58, and Atiq, 60, opened the tiny restaurant in the fall…
The World’s Broken Promise of Asylum
The U.S. policy of diverting Haitian refugees began in 1991. It was a kind of loophole: If the…
U.S. Offers Protection to People Who Fled War in Cameroon
The strife has displaced some two million people in Anglophone regions and has resulted in thousands of civilian…
On Poland-Ukraine Border, the Past Is Always Present. It’s Not Always Predictive.
LUBLIN, Poland — On a recent morning, I sat in the sun-filled dining room of a tidy house…
U.K. Plans to Send Some Asylum Seekers to Rwanda
As of Monday, 16,400 Ukrainian refugees had arrived in Britain under the programs, and 56,500 visas had been…
War in Ukraine Disrupts Education of Millions of Children
KRAKOW, Poland — Across Ukraine, kindergartens have been bombed, elementary schools have been converted into shelters and in…
Some Ukrainian Refugees Are Returning Home, Despite the Risks
LVIV, Ukraine — From her bearing and demeanor, the college instructor waiting at the Lviv bus station appeared…
Women Drive Germany’s Foreign Policy Shift Amid Ukraine War
BERLIN — It was Chancellor Olaf Scholz who, three days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, broke with Germany’s…
A Town on Ukraine’s Edge, Determined to Escape Its Past
PRZEMYSL, Poland — Since the war broke out in Ukraine, the elegant little city of Przemysl, less than…
How Lviv Has Been Transformed by War
LVIV, Ukraine — On the night before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a musician was singing on a…
For a Ukrainian Poet, Putin’s War Is All Too Familiar
LVIV, Ukraine — At 83, no longer a young poet, Ihor Kalynets knows something of life under Russia’s…