Tag: Refugee crisis

President Duterte: PHL doors open to refugees

President also calls on UN member-states to fully implement NPT to ensure global security environment (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday (Philippine time) called on United Nations member-states to fully implement the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and reiterated the Philippines’ commitment to helping refugees. In his first UN address, the President also called for a convention against chemical and biological weapons, noting that  “no aspiration nor ambition can justify the […]

2000 migrants moved from Idomeni camp

Idomeni, Greece (AFP)—Greek police on Tuesday transferred some two thousand migrants out of the overcrowded camp of Idomeni, launching a major operation to clear up the squalid tent city where thousands fleeing war and poverty have lived for months. The operation began at dawn, and by evening officials said they had put 2,031 people on buses to newly opened camps near Greece’s second city Thessaloniki, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) to the south. “The operation […]