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Image: In March 2017 Ai Weiwei launched  a massive sculpture featuring 70 metre long boat with 258 refugees (www.creativeboom.com) An overview of the definition of refugee status under the Refugee Convention, 1951. The language of a legislation or convention is significant since it is the basis for claiming rights and making significant decisions. Notably, the definition […]

Image: The Amadiyya community centre in Pasyala hosts refugees and asylum seekers forced to leave their homes since the April 21 attacks in Sri Lanka. Credit: UNHCR/Caroline Gluck. By Caroline Gluck NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 31 2019 (IPS) – Thirteen-year-old Bariea, a Pakistani asylum seeker in Sri Lanka, is taking shelter at a mosque in the city of […]

Image: Displaced Pakistani refugees in Sri Lanka. Statement by the Jaffna People’s Forum for Co-existence. As residents of Jaffna and people belonging to different faiths, we are deeply saddened and ashamed that a refugee family was forced to leave Jaffna due to concerns raised about possible threats to their safety by the police. The incident […]

Harassing and assaulting a group of Rohingya refugees who had arrived from Myanmar and are temporarily settled under the care of UNHRC by a gang lead by Buddhist priests at Mt. Lavinia on the 26th is an act that should not have occurred in a civilized society that could never be approved by anyone and […]

Image: The group that led the attack on UNHCR safe house where 31 Rohingya refugees were staying. Mangala amaraaweera. I would like to condemn in the strongest possible terms, the attack against Rohingya refugees – refugees who were under the care of UNHCR, yesterday in Mount Lavinia, by a group of thugs in robes. In fact […]

Image: These ware the refugees ( before sent to Mirihana camp, who came under attack on 26th Sep 2017 in  outskirts of Colombo. (UNHRC News) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is alarmed and concerned by yesterday’s incident at a refugee shelter housing mostly women and children on the outskirts of Colombo. On Tuesday, a group […]

(A boat filled with refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean floats off the coast of Italy.   © Italian Navy/Masimo Sestini) By: Adrian Edwards in Geneva and Medea Savary in Italy. GENEVA, May 31 (UNHCR) – At least 880 people are believed to have drowned last week in a spate of shipwrecks and boat capsizings on […]