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28 July Jul 2016 1237 28 July 2016 EU giving €1.4 billion to support refugees in Turkey
The European Commission has adopted a Special Measure worth over €1.4 billion in support of refugees who have fled the war in Syria and their host communities. The money will go towards education, health, municipal and social infrastructure, and socio-economic support. In addition, a further €79 million of previously allocated funds for humanitarian aid projects has been contracted to a number of partners, including UN agencies, international organizations as well as international NGOs.
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27 July Jul 2016 1102 27 July 2016 Extreme poverty affects 1 in 8 people in the world
According to the first progress report on Goals for a Sustainable World released by the UN,nearly 800 million people suffer from hunger, 5.9 million children die before they reach the age of five. The report provides the most up-to-date statistics on poverty, hunger, education and sanitation, among others, so that the world can address urgent global challenges over the next 15 years.
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27 July Jul 2016 1012 27 July 2016 Amnesty: National self-interests risk scuppering UN Global Compact
Amnesty International is warning that with just under a week to go, a group of unlikely bedfellows including Australia, China, Egypt, India, Russia, Pakistan and the UK, among others, risk bulldozing through the only worldwide effort under way to provide concrete action to deal with the global refugee crisis affecting 20 million people.
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20 July Jul 2016 1120 20 July 2016 What remains of the agreement on refugees ?
Four months have passed since the entry into force of the agreement between the EU and Turkey. This deal received widespread criticism with some claiming that it will remain unimplemented or, worse still, ignored by Turkey. Vita Int analyzes the state of the art with Professor Chiara Favilli from the University of Florence, a lecturer in European Union law.
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14 July Jul 2016 1036 14 July 2016 No more space for refugees? Think again Europe
According to data from the censuses conducted across Europe, there are at least 15.8 million verified empty homes in Europe. In other words, there are enough empty homes in Europe to house all the asylum seekers that arrived in Europe last year, and all of Europe’s 4 million homeless people, several times over.
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13 July Jul 2016 1533 13 July 2016 Ventimiglia refugee crisis: "Protect people, not borders" says Caritas Europa
Caritas Europa, together with its members Secours Catholique-Caritas France and Caritas Italy, is calling on the EU and in particular on the French and Italian governments to take action to respect the human dignity and fundamental rights of migrants stuck in Ventimiglia, Italy. “There are no services at all apart from what is provided by civil society” says Caritas Europa's Policy and Advocacy Officer Marie Tempesta.
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6 July Jul 2016 1150 06 July 2016 Mediterranean migrant arrivals in 2016 reach 227,316
OIM reports an estimated 227,316 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2016 through 3 July, arriving in Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain.
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5 July Jul 2016 1506 05 July 2016 Getting refugees to work is a win-win
Allowing refugees and asylum seekers to work in their host countries not only helps to restore their human dignity, but also reduces strain on public budgets by turning them into taxpayers, says a non-binding resolution voted this Tuesday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
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1 July Jul 2016 1459 01 July 2016 Salvaged boat wreckage in the Mediterranean "fundamental for both living and dead"
The boat that carried over 700 migrants to their deaths in one of the greatest refugee tragedies in the Mediterranean is now being salvaged, and the bodies of those who lost their lives are finally being laid to rest.
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30 June Jun 2016 1515 30 June 2016 The EU agenda behind the Migration Partnership Framework
Bob van Dillen, a migration and development expert, exposes the weaknesses of the European Commission's Migration Partnership Framework and questions its capacity to really serve the purpose of helping people in need.