1,000 Children Face Uncertain Future In Destroyed Calais Jungle

Volunteer refugee aid organizations report that children being housed in a shipping container park have inadequate access to food and water.

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A migrant stands next to his tent burnt in the makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle" near Calais, northern France, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. France began the mass evacuation Monday of the makeshift migrant camp known as "the jungle," a mammoth project to erase the humanitarian blight on its northern border, where thousands fleeing war or poverty have lived in squalor, most hoping to sneak into Britain.

As French authorities finished demolishing Monday the embattled Calais refugee camp, known as the “Jungle,” the fate of over 1,000 children reportedly living in dismal conditions in shipping containers in the cleared camp remained unclear, while thousands of others have been forced into precarious living in the streets of Paris. French

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Norway’s Oil Fund Makes Killing On ‘Prison-Like’ Refugee Camps

Horrendous as it may sound, for many people the migrant crisis is all about making money.

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By Sputnik News
In this Sept. 19, 2001, file photo, refugees, right, gather on one side of a fence to talk with international journalists about their journey that brought them to the Island of Nauru. Human rights groups accused Australia on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016, of deliberately ignoring the abuse of asylum seekers being held at the remote Pacific island detention camp in a bid to deter future refugees from trying to reach the country by boat.

The Norwegian Oil Fund has recently come under fire for being a major shareholder in the company who runs Australia's notorious detention camps on Pacific islands, where violence, child abuse and self-mutilation flourish amid poor living conditions. Earlier this year, Australia came under international criticism for keeping thousands

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US-Backed Saudi Forces In Yemen Have Created Almost 180,000 Refugees

In 2015, the UNHCR classified over 2,800,000 Yemenis as asylum seekers, refugees, or other vulnerable ‘people of concern,’ and 500,000 children could be at risk of starvation as a result of the Saudi-led conflict.

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By MintPress News Desk
Young refugee girls, skip rope near their tents at an informal tented settlement on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.

UNITED NATIONS --- The U.N. agency tasked with tracking and protecting displaced people reports that the war in Yemen has created 179,654 refugees since March 2015. According to the July 31 report from the U.N. Refugee Agency, or UNHCR, the refugees fled their homes in Yemen to take shelter in surrounding countries in the Middle East and North

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A Look At Trump’s Claims At The RNC And How They Compare With Reality

WASHINGTON — Despite promising “the truth, and nothing else” in his convention speech, Donald Trump presented the nation with a series of previously debunked claims and some new ones Thursday night — about the U.S. tax burden, the perils facing police, Hillary Clinton’s record and more.

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Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Thursday, July 21, 2016.

TRUMP: "Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this administration's rollback of criminal enforcement. Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in America's 50 largest cities. That's the largest increase in 25 years." THE FACTS: A rollback? President Barack Obama has actually achieved some big increases in

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‘They’re Just People Like You And Me’: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actors Condemn Treatment Of Syrian Refugees

The people in refugee camps are ‘successful people who have had everything taken away from them,’ said an actor from the hit HBO TV series, adding that Syrians are suffering ‘because people in offices in capitals around the world have decided to visit them with cruelty.’

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In this Thursday, June 30, 2016 handout photo provided by the International Rescue Committee, Lena Headey, right, talks with young Syrian children at Cherso refugee camp in northern Greece. Game of Thrones star Lena Headey traveled to Greece with co-stars in the TV fantasy drama Liam Cunningham and Maisie Williams to visit refugee camps with the relief organization, the International Rescue Committee.

MINNEAPOLIS --- Three actors from the HBO hit series “Game of Thrones” demanded better treatment for refugees after visiting some of the camps where victims of the Syrian civil war have found shelter. On June 30, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams and Liam Cunningham visited camps in Greece operated by the International Rescue Committee to raise

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Doctors Without Borders Rejects $63M In Funding Over EU’s ‘Shameful’ Treatment Of Refugees

‘There is nothing remotely humanitarian about these policies. It cannot become the norm and must be challenged,’ declared a representative of the renowned medical NGO which recently rejected millions in funding from the European Union.

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A migrant is detained after the train they were traveling in from Budapest arrived in Bicske, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Over 150,000 migrants have reached Hungary this year, most coming through the southern border with Serbia. Many apply for asylum but quickly try to leave for richer EU countries. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

BRUSSELS --- Doctors Without Borders condemned the European Union’s treatment of refugees arriving on its borders and will reject millions in funding in protest of the EU’s policies. The NGO, renowned for its life-saving services in war zones and countries facing humanitarian crisis, will turn away about $63 million in annual aid from EU member

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