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Ovec launches skills drive for Myanmar refugees
News, Post Reporters, Published on 18/12/2020
» The Office of the Vocational Education Commission (Ovec) has launched a programme to train migrants at refugee camps along the border with Myanmar to help them earn a living.
Toward global compacts on refugees and migrants
Asia focus, Vitit Muntarbhorn, Published on 29/01/2018
» 2018 is a significant year for the global community to converge on two commitments: the Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The seeds for these agreements were sown in 2016 when leaders adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants which called for an international framework for cooperation by 2018. The current momentum is to adopt such compacts in the latter half of 2018, and Thailand has been completing a round of discussions as potential inputs.
Theatre of white refugees from South Africa
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/05/2025
» As my flight landed in South Africa on Sunday, I looked in vain for the plane that was due to take off with the first 49 white, Afrikaans-speaking "refugees" of the many thousands who are supposedly going to find safety from racist persecution in Donald Trump's United States.
Shock, fear and sadness grip 'bushfire refugees'
AFP, Published on 04/01/2020
» BATEMANS BAY, Australia: Thousands of Australians forced from their homes by rampaging bushfires now find themselves stuck in makeshift camps, fearful for the future and turned refugees in their own country.
Thais deny army forcing back Myanmar refugees
Reuters, Published on 29/03/2021
» CHIANG MAI: About 2,000 refugees fleeing Myanmar to Thailand had been pushed back despite ongoing aerial bombardment, two activist groups said on Monday, but Thai authorities said the army was taking care of them on the border.
Dozens of Myanmar refugees make 'voluntary return’
AFP, Published on 31/03/2021
» Some 50 Myanmar refugees who fled air strikes to neighbouring Mae Hong Son province "voluntarily" returned across the border Wednesday, Thai authorities said, despite reports of continued bombings in their home state.
PM insists Thailand has helped Myanmar refugees
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 08/04/2021
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday insisted that Thailand has provided humanitarian assistance to Myanmar refugees along the Thai-Myanmar border.
Palestinian refugees hope Gaza solidarity boosts cause
AFP, Published on 26/05/2021
» SHATILA CAMP, Lebanon: From marching in rallies to posting live updates on social media, Palestinian refugee Mira Krayem has barely slept since conflict gripped her ancestral homeland earlier this month.
No quick fixes for plight of refugees
News, Editorial, Published on 20/06/2021
» Today marks World Refugee Day, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), along with the US and British embassies in Bangkok, Chao Phraya Express Boat and Tha Maharaj Lifestyle Mall are holding a series of understandably modest but well-intentioned activities to commemorate the lives and achievements of those often forcefully displaced from their home nations.
War refugees returning across border to Myanmar
Wassana Nanuam, Published on 19/12/2021
» Karen refugees in a temporary shelter at a school in Mae Sot district of Tak province are voluntarily returning across the border to Myanmar after fighting between the government and rebels died down, a military source said.