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"Refugees" için sonuçlar gösteriliyor
Judge Bryan McMahon’s words should be taken to heart‘You, too, are Ireland.” Those were the words of retired High Court Judge Bryan McMahon while presiding over the citizenship ceremony that took place in the Dublin Convention Centre on 14 December 2015. Some 3,000 people from 121 countries were naturalised on that day: many had come to Ireland as migrants, immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers, while others were descendants of such.
Refugees welcome in Co Roscommon town - but lack of local engagement an issueThe Irish Refugee Council has welcomed the announcement that refugees will be re-homed in a Co Roscommon town, but expressed concern at the lack of prior engagement with the local community.
2016 sees rise in numbers of dead or missing migrantsThe number of refugees who died or are missing worldwide rose to 7,495 in 2016, according to a new report. Provisional figures from the IOM’s Missing Migrants Project show 1,755 more migrants died last year compared to the 2015 figure of 5,740.
Migrant-led orgs feel left out in the cold by new coalitionA new coalition calling on the Irish Government to raise the number of refugees the State has pledged to accommodate has no single migrant-led member, it has emerged.
