Overcrowding, lack of basic health care services, and poor hygiene infrastructure in refugee camps make them danger spots for the coronavirus. By implementing discriminatory policies and closing borders to asylum seekers, governments endanger the health and rights of refugees around the world.
Sheltering refugees is not just a moral duty. All countries, including the United States and its fellow democracies in Europe, are also legally bound to assist those fleeing war and oppression.
Freedom House issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s executive order barring the arrival of refugees and all other citizens from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Freedom House issued the following statement in response to Congressional efforts to restrict the entry of Syrian refugees to the United States.
Thousands of Rohingya refugees are denied internet access because Bangladesh requires mobile users to register with their national identity documents.
Security forces of the Mozambican government are committing gross human rights abuses against civilians in central Mozambique, leading people to cross the border into Malawi as refugees, a report issued today by Freedom House finds.
This fifth edition of Freedom House’s weekly newsletter, Keeping Democracy Healthy in a Pandemic, looks at COVID-19’s impact on refugees; and crisis to come in Turkey.
The South African government should revise new laws limiting rights of refugees and asylum seekers.
