EU refugee crisis

A funeral procession in Lviv, Ukraine, in March ends at grave sites where soldiers Viktor Dudar, 44, and Ivan Koverznev, 24, will be buried, as priests say their blessings and mourners look on.

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6 key numbers that reveal the staggering impact of Russia's war in Ukraine

3:53pm August 24, 2022

Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago. In that time, thousands of people have been killed, cities destroyed, millions of people displaced and the Ukrainian economy has been battered.

Mayor Wojciech Bakun of Przemysl, Poland, estimates that 350,000 refugees have arrived in his Polish border town since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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This Polish mayor has become a hero for Ukrainians in crisis. But what of his past?

6:09pm March 11, 2022

Wojciech Bakun admits he was ill-prepared to become a front-line humanitarian worker dealing with the rush of refugees from Ukraine. And some onlookers have been surprised by his response too.

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A migrant who scaled a border fence from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla shows their injured hands, in March 2014. Spain is seeing a record of largely sub-Saharan African migrants and asylum-seekers making risky journeys to enter the country.

As Spain's Immigration Rises, More Women Arrive With Experiences Of Sex Abuse

1:45pm November 02, 2018

by Lucia Benavides

Experts say nearly every woman migrating to Spain from Africa is sexually abused along the way. They sometimes arrive pregnant or with infants conceived on their journey, often a result of rape.

A Spanish government relief worker plays with a young migrant child at a sports center in San Roque, southern Spain, after the child was rescued by Spain's Maritime Rescue Service in the Strait of Gibraltar on Aug. 1.

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Spain Now Sees More Migrant Arrivals Than Any Other European Country

9:01am September 20, 2018

by Lucia Benavides

Far more immigrants and asylum-seekers are crossing the Spanish border than those entering other usual Mediterranean entry points Greece and Italy.

African migrants climb over a metal fence that divides Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Since the early 1990s, Spain has built 20-foot-tall, layered border fences around its two North African enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, to help dissuade migran

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Opinion: The EU Looks To Offshore Its Migrant Crisis. That's A Horrifying Prospect

8:02am July 29, 2018

by Isabella Alexander

European leaders are looking to set up migrant holding sites outside the EU, following a controversial Australian precedent, writes an anthropologist who researches migration in North Africa.

The MV Lifeline, a vessel for the German charity Mission Lifeline, arrives with 234 migrants onboard in the harbour of Valletta, Malta, on Wednesday.

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EU Leaders Reach A Deal To Limit Migrant Travel

4:40pm June 29, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The deal calls for processing centers to be established on a "voluntary basis" to restrict migrants from moving within the European Union while asylum claims are being considered.

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Ibrar Hussein Mirzai, an 18-year-old Afghan, has received asylum in Hungary and hopes to eventually gain Hungarian citizenship. He is aware that Hungarians don't like refugees. "I am a normal person just like them," he says.

Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem

5:59am April 27, 2018

by Joanna Kakissis

Just 10 percent of Hungarians polled say they feel totally comfortable making friends with an immigrant. In a survey, Hungarians even rejected a group that doesn't exist.

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Outgoing European human rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks (L) shares a joke with the Dalai Lama at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, in 2016.

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'It's A Very Different World Now,' Says Outgoing Human Rights Commissioner

7:00pm April 19, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

Nils Muiznieks has worked with the Council of Europe for the last six years. He shares his thoughts on the state of human rights, cultural racism, and the threat of war, genocide, and dictatorship.

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Detainees stand in a hall at a detention center for migrants in Al Kararim, Libya. The North African country is a key transit spot and destination for migrants seeking employment or a path to Europe.

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Migrants Captured In Libya Say They End Up Sold As Slaves

8:18pm March 21, 2018

by Ruth Sherlock

Men detained en route to Europe in Libya tell NPR that guards held them for ransom and sold them off to other detention centers and ultimately into forced labor.

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