Latest facts (Updated June 19, 2023) • Out of the 108 million displaced people estimated by UNHCR, over 62.5 million are IDPs. • There are over 35.3 million refugees around the world. • There are approximately 5.4 million asylum seekers, people whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined. • Lower-income nations host 76 per cent of the […]
Category: People on the move
Greece: MSF concerned about pushbacks, arbitrary detention, and violence towards migrants
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses its serious concerns on the continuous deterioration of the situation of migrants and refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos, where there have been numerous and various allegations/reports of exposure to violence, such as alleged abductions and alleged pushbacks, detention and deprivation of food and shelter. MSF calls […]
Malaysia: Lack of access to maternal healthcare services puts refugee women at risk
Pregnant women from refugee communities in Malaysia have limited access to adequate maternal healthcare services, such as antenatal and postnatal care, skilled birth attendants, emergency obstetric care, and family planning services, which results in the high rate of maternal mortality among refugees. According to a study by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]
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Testimonies of survivors fleeing across the central Mediterranean
“The minute I was alone, they would have raped me.” Adanya, 34 years old, from Cameroon. “In Libya, I was sleeping under trucks and buses as I did not have any money.” Afia, 24 years old, from Ghana. “I know if I tell my mother I am in Libya, she will be crying every […]
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Bangladesh: Cuts to refugees’ food rations will have serious health impact, warns MSF
Cuts to the food rations received by around one million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, will increase their risk of malnutrition and have a serious impact on their health, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Citing lack of funding, yesterday, the World Food Program (WFP) cut rations by 17 per cent, bringing the number […]
Geo Barents: all 572 survivors disembarked after unjustified delay at Catania port
After 10 days at sea and three days of waiting at the Catania port, finally all survivors on board of the Geo Barents could touch land in a safe place, away from the violence and suffering they fled in Libya. Italian authorities first allowed only the disembarkation of 357 people, leaving 215 on board, as […]
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Libya: “I’m terrified that something bad will happen to my son”
Today, Nov. 2, the agreement on migration between the Italian and Libyan governments will automatically renew for three years. The EU-sponsored agreement has seen millions of dollars of financial and technical support given to the Libya Coast Guard, who have intercepted more than 100,000 people at sea since it was first signed in 2017, forcibly […]
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Geo Barents: Tragic rescue includes 22 people missing and one deceased
At least 22 people are missing, and a pregnant woman died despite desperate efforts to resuscitate her, following the partial sinking of a rubber boat in the central Mediterranean Sea yesterday. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Search and Rescue team has brought 71 survivors from the flimsy sinking rubber boat on board our search and […]
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Bangladesh: Unprecedented increase of scabies cases in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps
The number of people attending Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s services in Cox’s Bazar with scabies is the highest we have seen in three years. Cases of skin diseases in 2021 were more than double those of 2019, with 73,000 people treated, and infections are continuing to climb in 2022. Almost 90 percent of […]
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Poland: MSF team leaves border region after aid agencies blocked from assisting migrants and refugees
MSF has withdrawn its team after being repeatedly blocked by Polish authorities from accessing the forested border region.
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