| Germany lifts pause on family reunification. Germany has resumed family reunifications , after suspending in 2016 the right to bring in immediate family members for asylum-seekers granted subsidiary protection. The halt was designed to ease the strain on social workers handling record numbers of new arrivals. Length of separation, the age of loved ones outside Germany, health considerations and safety are some of the criteria for reunification. While UNHCR welcomes that families with children are given special consideration in the law, the agency has also warned that the reunification application process lacks transparency and is unnecessarily complex. | | |
| EU to support Spain on migration. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, says that while the EU is willing to increase funding to Spain and Morocco to help the countries manage a rise in migration across the western Mediterranean, budget is limited. On Wednesday, Juncker tweeted a copy of a letter in which he told Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that the EU was willing to increase financial support to Spain and Morocco. | | |
| Fields Medal stolen from refugee mathematician in Rio. A Cambridge professor and Kurdish refugee who won the prestigious Fields Medal, often referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize of mathematics,’ has had his prize stolen shortly after receiving it. Caucher Birkar, who hails from Iran and teaches at Cambridge University, was one of four people honoured for their contributions to mathematics and had said he "couldn't imagine that this would come true". | | |
| Migrant rescue ship Aquarius returns to sea. The rescue ship Aquarius, which was stranded on the Mediterranean Sea in June for more than a week after rescuing over 600 passengers, is beginning a new mission in the southern Mediterranean. The vessel, operated by Franco-German charity SOS Mediterranee, will set sail from Marseille on its tenth operation of the year, having already rescued around 3,000 people during 2018. | | |
| Finding community in exile in Jordan. Friendships are being forged at a new community support center in Amman, Jordan, which aims to break down barriers between refugees and forge a sense of community for those who have lost their own. Jordan has become home to hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, as well as tens of thousands of Iraqis and Yemenis. | | |
| UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller travels to Guatemala to meet a refugee from El Salvador who still fears the violent gangs that forced her to flee her home. | | |
More than 294,000 asylum-seekers and refugees from the North of Central America were registered globally as of the end of 2017, an increase of 58 per cent from a year earlier.
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