Georgios Giannopoulos
European leaders are confident that sending migrants back is legal – but is it?
Syrians seeking protection.
UNHCR/I Prickett
Refugees will continue to flee the war-torn country and Europe must do more to help.
He’s off, and he’s burning bridges.
EPA/Larry W. Smith
Speaking to The Atlantic, the president didn’t leave anything out – except the bit where thousands died and millions lost their homes.
Refugees rescued off the coast of Greece.
EPA/Kay Nietfeld
How EU leaders have sidestepped the UN Refugee Convention to make a very difficult problem disappear.
Andreas Fusser
Deported as soon as they become legal adults, young refugees wander the globe in search of safety.
EU leaders are to send refugees back to Turkey.
EPA/Yannis Kolesidis
If this cruel proposal is all EU leaders can produce in response to mass human suffering, perhaps it’s not a union worth saving.
A Syrian child sleeps on the street in Kos.
EPA/Yannis Kolesidis
In-depth research with refugees and migrants reveals that deterrent measures will not solve the crisis.
EPA/Orestis Panagiotou
Old grudges and European aspirations are driving this narrative – never mind how many people die in the process.
Asylum seekers are held at the Macedonian border.
EPA/Georgi Licovski
As the philosopher once described, states obsessed with the health of their own people often create the conditions for others to die.
The Free Syrian Army standing lookout.
Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters
On February 11 a Syrian ceasefire was signed in Munich. Few are optimistic it will hold. Why? Because, argues one Middle Eastern scholar, world leaders are ignoring key realities.
They’re out there somewhere.
Reuters/Yannis Behrakis
NATO has announced a new mission to monitor people-smugglers in the Aegean – but something smells fishy.
Hope for the future?
Reuters/Pascal Rossignol
Conditions are getting worse at the migrant camps in France, which is leading to protest.
Waiting to escape.
Reuters/Osman Orsal
While the world struggles to even get to the negotiating table, the Syrian refugee crisis is still getting worse.
New arrivals will be searched and told to give up items of value.
EPA/Claus Hansen
For many, it evokes memories of the Holocaust. So how can the government justify it?
“Oh, not that one. Surely?”
Reuters
Even though it’s often a matter of life or death, the asylum process is often obstructed by bureaucratic hurdles.
There’s no end in sight to the wave of refugees seeking solace in Europe.
Reuters
Europe’s biggest achievements, such as open borders and human rights, are at risk as government responses to the refugee crisis fall short.
News Oresund
People crossing the famous bridge from Denmark can expect to have their papers checked in a landmark change to border policy.
Pushing back against the backlash.
Reuters/Wolfgang Rattay
Germany has been a world leader in taking in refugees, but a xenophobic outcry at a wave of sexual assaults puts the government in a tight spot.
Muzaffar Salman/Reuters
The collapse of Syria’s health system is helping spread leishmaniasis but not in the way some media outlets have reported.
Wants to make Czech Rep great again, thinks xenophobia is the perfect way to do it.
Reuters/David W Cerny
He’s been a prime minister and a president but he’s best-known now for his xenophobic interventions.