All news on the topic: Refugees

Survivor Ayad, 24, said small hands grasped at him as he swam for his life - and claimed he could see lights from a stationary coastguard ship – but no help came for three hours

Manuel Vega was detained and tortured by police in Cuba. He told the Mirror he was "shocked and terrified" to suffer the same treatment in the US while seeking asylum, where he was supposed to be protected

Obsa reveals how Breadwinners, a National Lottery funded scheme employing young refugees to sell artisan loaves, is helping them make a fresh start

The engineless Bibby Stockholm has docked in Falmouth for vital inspections and refurbishment before being towed to Portland in Dorset where she will accommodate 500 asylum seekers

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza said high unemployment and a heavy-handed approach to protests made the Central African country unsuitable for the UK's deportation project, which was unveiled more than a year ago but hasn't seen any flights take off

Dr Krish Kandiah of the Sanctuary Foundation last week visited the country on a “fact-finding mission”, and said: "All these factors have been decades in the making. They need serious time and investment into undoing. But there are solutions."

The gigantic barge named Bibby Stockholm was deemed an 'oppressive environment' when it was used by the Dutch government to house asylum seekers in 2005

Sources at the Barbados Maritime Ship Registry confirmed the Home Office wants to charter the vessel from Liverpool-based Bibby Marine

Researchers from the Sanctuary Foundation, led by Dr Krish Kandiah are set for a “fact-finding mission”, seeking to find ways of discouraging young people not to make the dangerous journey.

We are all glad to see Gary Lineker back on TV, including Rasheed Baluch, a refugee who stayed with him for 20 days a couple of years ago. During that time, they cooked for each other and swapped stories

Rasheed Baluch, who was a guest at Gary Lineker’s home for weeks where he was given a free bed, said the Match of the Day presenter has come forward to defend humanity and Britain should be proud

Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright are men prepared to risk their space - so just what did the BBC think would happen when they tried to shut them up? This period now is about which side you are on, writes Darren Lewis

Dritan Kastrati nearly died three times when he was smuggled out of mainland Europe to escape his home on the ­Kosovan-Albanian border at the age of 11

Eva Simpson asks why there is one set of rules for one set of people and one for others, when we should be showing compassion to people fleeing war and persecution regardless of where they are from

At least 65 people, including 14 children, died in the migration tragedy when their boat slammed into sandbanks and broke apart in rough seas near Italy early on Sunday

Ian Umney, 29, began his mission of saving his Ukrainian wife and son from the conflict last year. Settled in the UK, he now wants to move back into Ukraine and live closer to his wife's family.

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Leila Eftetahi and husband Ali fled Iran's sacred city of Masshad in 2015 after her father locked her away, banned them from seeing each other, and tarred him with criminal charges

Sam Morsy's father came to England as a refugee when he was just 21 and the Ipswich captain supports the club's refugee project as well as sponsoring a family’s season ticket

Suella Braverman was confronted by Joan Salter, 83, who won an MBE for her work on Holocaust education, during a meeting in her Fareham constituency in Hampshire on Friday evening

Torridge District Council in Devon has been forced to consider "radical measures" and house families and refugees aboard cruse ships in a bid to tackle the housing crisis

A poll for GB News showed the hueg scepticism with which the public treats the Prime Minister's claim he will stop small boats bringing migrants to the UK across the Strait of Dover