The Municipality of Tehran has announced a plan for rounding up and deporting Afghan child workers, including scavengers. An Iranian media outlet quoted Tehran Municipality spokesman Abdul Mutahir Mohammad Khani as saying that under the plan, Afghan child workers and drug addicts in the capital would be sent back to their homeland. Meanwhile, Iran’s National More
The Ministry of Refugee and Repatriation says more than 3,800 Afghan refugees have been deported or voluntarily returned to the country from Pakistan and Iran in the past seven days. MoRR wrote on its X handle that 301 people, comprising 58 families, deported from Pakistan through Torkham. On the other hand, 3,524 people voluntarily returned More
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says more than 63,000 people died during migration in last ten years. The IOM in a report “A Decade of Documenting Migrant Deaths” said more such deaths recorded in 2023 than in any prior year. As the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project marks its ten-year milestone, More
Amnesty International (AI) has asked Pakistan to immediately halt continued detentions, deportations and widespread harassment of Afghan refugees. From September 2023 to February 2024, Pakistan has deported 527, 981 Afghan refugees with little regard to international human rights law, particularly the principle of non-refoulement. “Thousands of Afghan refugees are being used as political pawns to More
Despite criticism from Kabul and human rights groups, Pakistan is gearing up for the second phase of repatriating Afghan refugees. Nearly one million registered Afghan citizens could be sent back to their homeland, with district authorities and police directed to map whereabouts of the refugees. Directives had been issued to district administrations and police to More
Another group of Afghans has been evacuated to Germany from Islamabad. The German Foreign Ministry said that the Afghans were sent from Islamabad on a special plane yesterday. The ministry said the lives of the group sent to Germany were in danger in Afghanistan. However, the German Foreign Ministry did not say how many men More
The White House and congressional leaders have agreed to grant 12,000 special immigrant visas for Afghan nationals. The SIV program, which was created in 2009 to give Afghans who served as interpreters for the US military a path to escape threats to their lives, has about 7,000 visas remaining of the 38,500 Congress has previously More
Eighty percent of school-age Afghan refugee children in Pakistan have no access to school, a non-governmental organisation says. Alif Ailaan, a non-profit organisation promoting education, It said around 570,000 Afghan refugee children between five and 16 years were not going to schools in Pakistan. It said the numbers were also registered with the United Nations More
Another 333 Afghan nationals have been evacuated on a charter flight from Pakistan to Calgary, says the Canadian government. The Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) wrote on its X handle: “Today (Friday), 333 Afghan nationals arrived in Calgary on a charter flight from Pakistan.” They will continue their journey to approximately 33 communities across More
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says at least 8,565 people have lost their lives on migration routes across the world in 2023, making it the deadliest year on record. According to data collected by IOM’s Missing Migrants Project, the 2023 death toll represents a tragic increase of 20 per cent compared to 2022, highlighting More
