Date of source: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Our students met on-line with Dr. Renee Hattar, since October 2016 the head of International Studies at the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies in Jordan, founded in 1994 by HRH Prince el-Hassan bin-Talal of Jordan. RIIFS describes itself as “a non-profit, non-governmental organization that...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2021
UNHCR commended Egypt for affirming its commitment to expand the services available to refugees and asylum seekers in the health sector and ensure sustained access to opportunities in the education sector at the High-Level Officials meeting on 14th and 15th December 2021.
Date of source: Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Date of source: Monday, June 28, 2021
Being a refugee in a country that is not one’s own is difficult. That person is neither equal to the citizens of the host country, nor are they able to return to their own country. The only effective way to support refugees in any country is through education, giving individual refugees the skills...
Date of source: Wednesday, November 11, 2020
It was a ten-day walk from the village of Erra in Eritrea to Sudan. Aman and Meron, are two students at the CAWU Learning center in Cairo. They left their family behind at age 14 and 17. Annually tens of thousands of Eritreans leave the country to escape the harsh compulsory military service. Just...
Date of source: Saturday, April 25, 2020
Ṣafāʾ Mūsā, a Sudanese refugee living in Egypt, says “We will die from starvation, not from Corona” thereby pointing at the problems she faces during the holy month of Ramadan. Like Mūsā, many other African refugees in Egypt are affected by the measures taken by the government to fight the...
Date of source: Thursday, May 2, 2019
The Delegation of Egypt affirmed in the meetings of the 64th Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, that Egypt is committed to the implementation of the international conventions for combating human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants.
Date of source: Thursday, August 15, 2019
Two interns visited the families of Eritrean students who will start their education at the CAWU-Learning Center on August 26, 2019. The families told them about the hardships in Eritrea and how they were able to travel overland to Egypt. All these families have UNHCR cards and are thus legally in...
Date of source: Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal said any citizen in any place all over the world who seeks asylum to the Netherlands must first be present on Dutch soil and then offer a convincing proof that he/she needs international protection. [Dīnā Darwīsh, al-Akhbār, Oct. 23, p. 7] Read text in Arabic
Date of source: Friday, April 18, 2014
UNHCR has stated that the Christian militias in CAR are attacking innocent people who are trying to escape from the sectarian violence in the country and are forcing them to take dangerous border routes