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Asylum: EU consolidates recovery from 2015-2016 migration crisis - Significant decrease in applications in 2017 has stabilised in early 2018

On 18 June 2018, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) released its 2017 Annual Report on the Situation of Asylum in the European Union. In 2017, there were 728,470 applications for international protection in the EU. This figure represents a...

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Save the Children CEO: 'We Have a Moral Obligation to Keep Families Together'

In response to continued reports of children being separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border, Carolyn Miles, President and CEO of Save the Children, issued the following statement on June 19

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‘Worst devastation I have seen,’ says UN refugee envoy Angelina Jolie, as she visits West Mosul

Women and children walk through the debris of buildings and vehicles destroyed during intense...

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Spain takes over from Italy Chairmanship of the Group of Friends of UNHRD

In a ceremony held at the annual session of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme, the Italian Government handed over the chairmanship of the Group of Friends of UNHRD to the Spanish Government on Jun 18, 2018. Also promoted by the...

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