by T. Craig Murphy, IOM-Kenya and Dayib Askar, IOM-Somalia Fathia Mubarik is a 21-year-old Somali refugee who was born in Hargeisa, Somaliland. In 2012, she was granted prima-facie refugee status in Yemen as a Somali national. At the end of May 2015, Fathia decided...
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How the U.S. ‘Solved’ the Central American Migrant Crisis
By getting Mexico to do its dirty work—and making migrants more vulnerable to rape, kidnapping, and murder. By Joseph Sorrentino / In These Times La Bestia is running empty now. For years, the freight trains collectively known as “The Beast” carried Central American...
ICE frees some migrant women & children
by Franco Ordoñez June 12, 2015 WASHINGTON — Federal officials have released at least a half-dozen detained mothers and their children from a south Texas detention center as scrutiny of the Obama administration’s family detention program escalates. On Friday,...
Rohingya women used as sex slaves by camp guards
By Bernama June 1, 2015 Rohingya women migrants detained at a human trafficking syndicate transit camp in Padang Besar, Thailand, were treated like sex slaves and subjected to gang rape by the camp guards, according to a woman migrant. Nur Khaidha Abdul Shukur,...