Petra László is the Hungarian camera operator fired by local television channel N1TV for having deliberately tripped over a man, a fleeing refugee, who was holding a child. Hundreds of refugees were trying to escape the police’s grip near the Hungarian village of Rőszke, close to the border with Serbia, after having remained confined
The picture that will go down in history The image we hope will change history The picture that shows we are not humane anymore The image that forces us to be humane Humanity is dead in that picture A strike to our conscience A death that make our conscience bleed A heart
People who fled the Syrian civil war, which started over 4 years ago, exceeded 4 million. Of them, 1.8 million went to Turkey, which is now the country that hosts the highest number of refugees in the world. These data have been released by latest report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
The Hungarian government decided to build a 4-metre-high fence along its border with Serbia, in order to stop the unauthorised entry of migrants coming from the Balkans. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Szijjarto announced the plan to the international community, talking about a possible border fence up to 175 km long. The measure
L’obiettivo della giornata è di sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica sui diritti dei migranti, persone in fuga dalla guerra e dalla povertà.
The tragedy of people fleeing their lands in order to survive, have a future, and hope for a better life doesn’t involve only the Mediterranean Sea. On the other side of the world there are the Rohingya people, which are officially recognised by the United Nations as the world’s most persecuted and segregated population. The
On 22th April the NGO Amnesty International staged a demonstration, a flashmob on Brighton’s beach, UK. The humanitarian organisation scattered two hundred body bags on the shores to highlight the UK’s little response to the plight of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Then volunteers zipped themselves into the body bags to make their protest more disquieting.
The number of migrants who tried to abandon their birthplace by boat in 2014 was the highest ever. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), since January, 348 thousand people have tried to undertake sea routes worldwide. Europe. It has seen the largest number of sea arrivals,
Germany, United States, Turkey and Italy. These are the countries that every year reiceive the greatest amount of asylum applications from migrants who leave their country in search for a better place where to rebuild their lives. But there are four destinations pointed out by Quartz that are experiencing an uncommon increase in the number of refugees
The status of refugees should be updated to include all those people who are forced to migrate because of climate change.
