Instagram has since been flooded with sponsored posts offering boats for those looking to exit Lebanon by whatever means necessary.
The pair have lived in a tent in Mexico for six months now, waiting to make an asylum case in the US.
The British Home Office wants social media companies to act quicker against videos promoting “lethal” migrant English Channel crossings.
Things became heated between the Greenmarket Square refugees and the police during an operation to relocate them this past weekend.
Angelina Jolie addressed Donald Trump while speaking out against the way refugees have been treated in a time of desperation.
A “Brexit” advocate group has used a narrative piece from ol’ Trump as a soundtrack for their latest propaganda campaign. Believe.
For two journalists in the Calais Jungle things did not go according to plan, two refugees attempting to rob them in a violent attack.
Greece might be in a mess themselves but, for Syrian refugees displaced by the horrors of life back home, anything is an improvement. Or is it.
In the wake of the Paris attacks Syrian refugees have seen public sentiment hit an all-time low. Something refreshing from the Scots then.
A pair of Turkish fishermen were forced into action when they came across a number of refugees cast adrift. Amongst them was an 18-month-old baby.
As revellers at a Miami beach soaked up the sun they saw an unusual sight, a makeshift sailboat rocking up on their shores with 12 people aboard.
As the Syrian refugee movement spreads across Europe and shows the world the darker side of the lives of asylum seekers from both angles, satire is still being regarded as offensive and abusive.
As Syrian refugees make their way to northern Europe, their travels are made difficult by lack of trains, pen-like camps and mistreatment by Hungarian authorities.
If your day hasn’t already been ruined this will surely do the trick. Be warned, these pictures don’t make for easy viewing.
A youth activist based in Johannesburg has apparently laid a complaint with the SA Human Rights Commission (HRC) regarding Helen Zille’s tweet of almost two weeks ago, where she referred to scholars in the Eastern Cape that come to the Western Cape for schooling as “refugees”. Read his justification while Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” gently resonates in your head, after the jump!
Less than a week after Helen Zille’s latest Twitter-storm about comments she made about the state of education here in the Western Cape versus the same in our neighbours – she called students from the Eastern Cape who attend school here “refugees” – she has gotten all up in the ANC’s grille once more with fresh comments regarding the state of health here versus there.