| Venezuelan refugees to get regional vaccination cards. Reuters reports that health officials from 10 countries have agreed that Venezuelan refugees will be provided with a regional vaccination card beginning in October. People continue to flee violence, insecurity and threats in Venezuela, as well as widespread shortages of food and medicine, with Colombia and other neighbouring countries bearing the brunt of the crisis. According to the Colombian government, more than 85,000 Venezuelans crossed into Ecuador from Colombia in the last month, ahead of new visa restrictions that took effect on Monday. Last week, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi concluded a four-day visit to Brazil with an urgent appeal for increased international engagement, including by financial institutions and development actors, in the communities hosting Venezuelan refugees and migrants. | |
| Greek police arrest refugees and migrants in Athens. The Guardian reports that Greek police have arrested around 100 people from areas in Athens mostly inhabited by refugees and migrants. The dwellings are described as an alternative to official refugee camps and centres, where conditions have been widely condemned. Around 5,000 people are thoughts to have reached the Greek Aegean islands this month and, according to UNHCR, only 1 in 4 unaccompanied children currently have a place in a shelter. At the weekend, the refugee agency called on Greece's government to “urgently transfer” young refugees and migrants to safe areas after a deadly fight at the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos. | | |
| Religious leaders urge US not to cut help for refugees. More than 500 religious leaders and groups in the US have petitioned President Donald Trump urging him not to go through with plans to end the country's refugee resettlement programme. "We are called by our sacred texts and faith principles to love our neighbor, accompany the vulnerable and welcome the sojourner," they say in a signed letter. | | |
| Congolese refugees in Angola are returning home. Congolese refugees who fled to Angola to escape fighting between armed groups and military forces in 2017 are beginning to return home. Around 8,500 refugees have been on the move for the past week, with more than 1,400 already returned to Kasai province. UNHCR is working with partners and the governments of both countries to meet the humanitarian needs. | | |
| US nurse on rescue ship reunited with Darfur boy she saved. At the height of the Darfur conflict in 2004, an American nurse treated a baby for a leg injury. Fifteen years later, Deutsche Welle reports that she has been reunited with him on board a refugee rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea. The Ocean Viking recently made headlines for being refused permission to dock at European ports for two weeks after rescuing four boatloads of people off the Libyan coast earlier this month. | | |
| Refugees are finding friendship and hope thanks to the University of Sydney's Refugee Language Programme, which has welcomed thousands of asylum-seekers and refugees since it began in 2003. | | |
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, says over 80,000 refugees are in Greece, of whom over 4,100 are unaccompanied children.
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