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A new beginning for Ukrainian refugees in Prague

   

March 10, 2022 - Romina Vinci
Ukrainians are the largest foreign community in the Czech Republic, with almost 197,000 legally resident at the end of 2021. The Czech people have rallied around them and immediately mobilised to help the people at war and those fleeing the country. Romina Vinci reports from Prague.

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Millions of lives changed forever

March 9, 2022 - Elira Kadriu
On Tuesday 8 March, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, claimed that more than 2 million people have fled Ukraine, which makes the current crisis "the fastest growing crisis since World War II". Dramatic numbers, behind which lie the stories of so many women and men whose lives have changed forever. Elira Kadriu spoke to a few of them.

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Lviv is a Transit Point to Flee Ukraine

March 8, 2022 - Ilaria Romano
All the refugees fleeing Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mariupol, Kherson, and other cities assaulted by the Russian Army stream through Lviv, where they wait for hours to board a train to a safe destination. How is the city preparing to help them?

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Medyka and Przemyśl, the last frontier

March 5, 2022 - Ilaria Romano
With Ilaria Romano we travel to the villages of Medyka and Przemyśl, along the Polish-Ukrainian border, to continue our report both on the drama of those fleeing the war, and also on how solidarity is responding to the emergency.

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A tragedy within a tragedy: the racial discrimination suffered by non-Ukrainian refugees

March 1, 2022 - Oiza Q. Obasuyi
Since the breakout of war in Ukraine, more than 600,000 people have left the country, and many others are currently attempting to do so. Among these are people - mainly from Africa and South Asia - who are not Ukrainian but who live in Ukraine and who, just like the others, wanted to escape as quickly as possible. However, a growing number of pictures and videos show how unequal their treatment has been.

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The Djokovic Saga: Australia’s cruel immigration policies attract criticism after affecting a wealthy international star

January 28, 2022 - Fabi Fugazza
The Serbian champion's willingness to compete in the Australian Open has clashed with Australian immigration rules - and with the almost divine power of the minister who oversees them. Assisted by the best lawyers and supported by an important slice of public opinion, he had to give up the pursuit of yet another slam title and was expelled from the country. For many others, however, attempting to enter Australia without the right title can mean years of imprisonment and deportation to remote islands. Fabi Fugazza* explains why.

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The shameful topicality of the Khlaifia case

November 29, 2021 - Gennaro Santoro
From 30 November to 2 December, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe will convene in order to assess whether Italy has implemented the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)’s compliance requests as expressed in the Khlaifia judgment. Italian Civil Society has been following, and participating in this procedure, as explained by Gennaro Santoro in this contribution.

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