Ukraine war: How can Ukrainians get UK visas – and why is it proving so difficult? The Ukraine Family Scheme and Local Sponsorship Scheme for Ukraine are two visa routes Ukrainians can take to escape the war with Russia and travel to the UK. But hundreds of refuge...
Two years after the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, images of refugees and ruins appear repeatedly in Western media. The West led by the United States accuse Russia of causing civilian casualties but itself keep adding fuel to the conflict. The information campaign and battle for hearts and mind...
How Is Ukraine Handling Its Refugees?Yuji Develle
Uganda hosts more refugees than any other African nation. It’s estimated that they currently hostover 1.7 million refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from theDemocratic Republic of the CongoandSouth Sudan. As a country with41% of its population living in poverty, the refugee crisis has stretched...
Diamond Middleton directed a heart-wrenchingshort filmfor Planet Classroom’s problem solvers series calledHow to Help Ukraine Refugees.Middleton highlights the tensions leading up to the war in Ukraine, the invasion itself and how we can help refugees. The outcome was concise, accurate and helpful...
A group of 15 UK charities have launched a joint fundraising appeal to help more than a million refugees fleeing Ukraine as the Russian invasion "turns lives upside down". The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) began the effort on Thursday, with one member executive describing the ...
As we move closer to the UN Summit of the Future scheduled for September, and with previously ‘unthinkable’ wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, it is time to reflect on the global transformations —geopolitical, technological and environmental— radically altering the multila...
The majority of Germans surveyed agree to help refugees from Ukraine in every way possible, yet the financial burden of accommodating and integrating them has largely been on municipal and state governments. This has pushed some smaller cities and states, such as Saarland in western Germany, to ...
This is why Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) publishes its service standards for processing applications. These service standards, which vary depending on a candidate’s application type (work permit, study permit etc.), outline the number of weeks (or months) that IR...
In the case of humanitarian emergencies such as the war in Ukraine or the impacts of health pandemics, crises tend to amplify what we already know. And persons with disabilities are among those at greatest risk.Footnote19For example in Chicago, 35 percent of persons with disabilities live below...