There are 53,000 Refugees Stranded in Greece. I met one of them. She is 7 months pregnant and couldn’t find help. Mark Leon Goldberg July 26, 2016 Ed note. This is a guest post by Shaliz Navab a student at the University of Edinburgh. She was a manager of the Refugee Speaker Programme for the Scottish Refugee Council in Glasgow and on a temporary basis works with diaspora youth communities through Irani...
Video: These Are the Refugees That Europe is Turning Its Back On Mark Leon Goldberg March 4, 2016 There are now some 10,000 people stranded in Greece at the border of Macedonia. The Macedonian government has all but shut its border, only letting a limited number of Syrians and Iraqis each day. Still, people are fleeing to Greece. And once in Greece, they a...
This 16-Year-Old Afghan Boy Fled To Europe, But Experienced Horror on the Way (Video) Mark Leon Goldberg December 15, 2015 This teenage boy was an Afghan refugee in Iran. The chances of being accepted into Iran, being permitted to work and gain an education were extremely dim. "Even if we stay 100 more years, we would have no prospects or future." So, this boy, with the blessing o...
Syria’s Afghan Refugees Trapped in a Double Crisis Ahmad Shuja January 28, 2013 There are 2,000 Afghan refugees in Syria. They are caught in a deadly trap.