How Georgia argues about the influx of Russian migrants In early March, a wave of migration swept Tbilisi - taking advantage of the visa-free regime, thousands of Russians chose Georgia as a temporary or permanent residence. This is not the first, but the largest mass influx of Russians in recent years into a country which considers Russia an occupier of 20% of its territory. The BBC tells the story of
UN Helps Protect Ukrainian Refugees from Human Traffickers Photo UNHCR/Moscow Refugee Registration Center from Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland. Ninety percent of the refugees from Ukraine - millions of people - are women and children, including unaccompanied minors. UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Gillian Triggs warns that this group of internally displaced persons is the first to be targeted by traffickers and other abusers. The Office of
How German organizations save Holocaust victims from Russian shelling German organizations are removing Holocaust victims from Ukraine. Nearly 80 years ago, Nazi Germany exterminated about a million and a half Jews in this country. Those who survived are now forced to flee Russian shelling. It is extremely difficult to get people out of the war zones - the shelling makes it impossible for cars to reach their homes, and some
Lyudmyla Denisova: "They are not like us, do you understand? They will not fight for their own and their own people, as we do" Since the beginning of the war, the workload in the Office of the Ombudsman, headed by Lyudmyla Denisova, has multiplied. Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia, annihilation, torture, forced deportation. All of this is documented as a war crime - for future courts. Moreover, there is
European Research Council lists hundreds of jobs for Ukrainian researchers and support staff The European Research Council (ERC) has published a page of job offers for Ukrainians in ERC-funded research teams, following an appeal to its 5,600 grantees to provide temporary employment to refugee researchers and research support staff, such as technicians and lab managers. From jobs for PhD students in brain research, to lab assistants in the study of
Information for people fleeing the war in Ukraine If you are fleeing war in Ukraine and coming to the European Union, you will find key information about your rights regarding border crossing upon arrival in an EU country, temporary protection rights and application for international protection, as well as rights of movement in the European Union. Foto: Alexandru Chiriac Kiri. R. Moldova. Refugees from Ukraine board a train to
The Russian Justice Ministry ordered the closure of branches of German foundations The Ministry of Justice accused the branches of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and a number of German foundations operating in Russia of violating Russian law. On Friday, April 8, the Russian Ministry of Justice removed 15 of these offices from the registry of branches and representative offices of international organizations and foreign non-profit organizations. This includes branches
UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council The resolution received a two-thirds majority of those voting, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favour and 24 against. Fifty-eight abstained from the process. Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Vietnam, were among those who voted against. Those abstaining, included India, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,
UKRAINE - News on aid campaign "Help with medicines", April 2022 The war in Ukraine has been going on for five weeks now, i.e. since 24.02.2022. Although Ukrainian forces are apparently managing to retake small areas, the scale of the destruction is enormous. Where Russian troops are retreating, they are leaving minefields. The video, which you can find on our homepage, shows a highway littered with mines in the city
STAY WITH IGFM UKRAINE 4. April 2022. Hier die neuen Berichte des Informations- und Analysezentrums (IAZ) der IGFM Ukraine über unsere humanitären Aktivitäten der letzten Woche. Informationen über unsere humanitäre Mission in der Ukraine werden auch auf einer der UN-Websites Power BI veröffentlicht. Hier kann man das IAZ IGFM Ukraine aus der Liste der Organisationen auswählen. ROVNO Dank der gemeinsamen Bemühungen des IGFM Zentrums und Europlus Bari konnten wir
