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CAA won't be implemented in Kerala, reiterates Vijayan after Amit Shah's r
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kasargod (Kerala) [India], February 14 (ANI): Days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the process of granting citizenship to refugees under the CAA would start as soon as COVID-19 vaccination concludes, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has reiterated that the Citizenship Amendmen
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Refugees from West Pakistan, PoK given domicile certificates in J-K: Amit
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 13 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said refugees from West Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have been provided domicile certificates in Jammu and Kashmir.
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More than 90 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], February 13 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said that more than 90 illegal migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast.
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A ride for humanity by Kiran Chukkapalli
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], February 12 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Every year, thousands of people from South Asian countries are forced to flee their homes because of persecution and conflict and enter India in search of a safe life.
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Guterres to donate USD 500,000 prize from Human Fraternity Award to UN Ref
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], February 4 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that he will donate the prize of USD 500,000 he received upon acceptance of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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Blinken says US should accept refugees fleeing Hong Kong amid draconian la
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 2 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday (local time) lambasted China over its imposition of the draconian National Security Law in Hong Kong saying it acted "egregiously" to undermine the city.
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Some 27,000 children stranded in Al-Hawl camp in Syria
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [US], January 30 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov said on Friday that some 27,000 children remain stranded in the Al-Hawl refugee camp in northeastern Syria, despite the efforts undertaken over the past years to repatriate them.
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Bangladesh relocates 1,778 Rohingya refugees from Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Ch
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 29 (ANI): The Bangladesh government on Friday relocated 1,778 Rohingya refugees from Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Char.
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Uyghur refugee shares her 3-year of harrowing ordeal in Chinese 're-educat
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Paris [France], January 18 (ANI): As reports confirming the human rights abuses on Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang region continue to surface, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, an Uyghur woman who was lured back to Beijing from France only to be arrested, has recounted her harrowing experience in the "re-educ
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Massive fire at Bangladesh's Rohingya camp leaves hundreds of refugees hom
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 14 (ANI): A massive fire broke out at the Nayapara Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, leaving hundreds of people homeless.
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West Pakistan Refugees from J-K meets Jitendra Singh, thank PM Modi for gr
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 7 (ANI): West Pakistan Refugees Action Committee from Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday met Union Minister Jitendra Singh and thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for granting them citizenship rights "after a long wait of over seven decades", according to the Ministry
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Court okays Trump administration auctioning oil drilling rights in Alaska
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Alaska [US], January 6 (ANI/Sputnik): A US federal judge has turned down requests by conservation and indigenous groups to prevent the outgoing administration from selling oil and gas leases to drilling companies in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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