We cannot stand by as people drown in European waters simply to escape conflict in Libya and Syria.
An unprecedented 670,000 people, large numbers of them seeking to escape conflict in the Middle East, Africa and Afghanistan, have arrived in Europe this year.
To prepare: The U.N. Refugee Agency is stockpiling tents, blankets, and other supplies along the Iraqi-Syrian border in case some of the more than four hundred thousand Iraqis who fled to Syria to escape conflict in Iraq decide to return home to escape the conflict in Syria.
"Afghans are angry because Syrians can get asylum in Europe, and they can't," said Mr. Alkhalaf, who left the Syrian capital, Damascus, to escape conflict, only to find himself facing violence after making a perilous journey to Europe.
The number of migrants camping at Calais has swelled from hundreds last year to thousands this year as pressures force many from the global south to migrant northwards to escape conflict.
GENEVA — The number of refugees crossing borders to escape conflict and persecution increased last year, and threatens to continue to grow because of factors like climate change and scarce resources, the United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday.
For a story that will make all readers think about attitudes to outsiders, Gillian Cross's After Tomorrow takes an English family across the channel to escape conflict at home.
"However, it's also grim news for the majority of other refugees who are desperately trying to escape conflict and persecution, who the government is trying to contain in Turkey and other, poorer countries.
The 'Borderless Higher Education for Refugees' programme has set up the world's first camp-based university in the Dadaab camp in Kenya, where over 500,000 fled to escape conflict in Somalia.
But between the time the visas were requested and when they were issued in 1985, Pedro and Salvacion, hoping to escape conflicting parental demands, secretly married in the Philippines.
