Refugees

Hello سلام In 2009, when I arrived in France as a refugee, I spent hundreds of euros calling my family back home. Several weeks later, I realized that some services were 10 times cheaper.

This is a detailed story of Marina [the name has been changed] about what she lived through in Mariupol while the town was sieged. On the 15th of March Marina managed to escape from the siege. She is safe now. We are publishing this “letters of the war” series to…

Germany: 1in 3 negative asylum decisions handed down by BAMF end up being revised after initial court appeals // Hunger strike in Lesznowola // Embarrassing data breach in the Greek migration report // Calls for volunteers in France // How to support anti Rwanda deal efforts in the UK // + our team prepared some very interesting and highly useful articles, analysis, reports and personal stories — don’t miss them

Germany: 1in 3 negative asylum decisions handed down by BAMF end up being revised after initial court appeals / Hunger strike in Lesznowola / embarrassing data breach in the Greek migration report / calls for volunteers in France / how to support anti Rwanda deal efforts in the UK / + our team prepared some very interesting and highly useful articles, analysis, reports and personal stories — don’t miss it

How my grandmother escaped Odesa, Ukraine, in the middle of a war — I n the center of Odesa, the monument to the Duc de Richelieu — the 19th-century governor who transformed Odesa into a modern city — had been buried in sandbags. The only thing left visible was the top of his head. Derybasivska Street, which was usually teeming with pedestrians, musicians…

Today I was following my usual routine and had just logged onto one of the parrot owners’ Facebook pages I am a member of by the name of No Flocks Given. As the name implies, this group pushes the edges of Facebook “community standards” and Friday’s are designated “Freakout Friday”…