The Disillusioning Record of 2016’s World Refugee Day
While this year’s World Refugee Day highlights people fleeing their country as a major humanitarian issue that needs to be addressed urgently, church representatives and NGOs argue that political measures of improvement are not sufficient and are even counterproductive.
“Church should support Eritreans”
European Churches should urge the European Union and the United Nations to help Eritrean refugees. A new flow of refugees from this country looms. Dutch media outlet ‘Reformatorisch Dagblad’ reports.
Eritrean-Ethiopian Border Clashes Might Require UN Intervention
Brussels (IDN). Reinhardt Jacobsen. As border clashes between Eritrea and Ethiopia continued into the second day on June 13, observers recalled UN Secretary-General’s remarks in January 2008 that he was “worried about the growing militarization, on both side(s) of the boarder, which could lead to a war”.