In Pictures: Humanitarian crisis unfolds at Poland-Belarus border
For weeks, a large group of people, mostly from the Middle East, has been stranded in Belarus at a border crossing with Poland, trapped as forces from the two countries … Read More
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The devastating ways women suffer at the Poland-Belarus border
Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities Sokolka, Poland – When 28-year-old Shirin*, an Iraqi Kurd, crossed the border from Belarus into Poland with her seven-year-old … Read More
At Poland-Belarus border, people decry ‘weaponisation’ depiction
Sokolka, Poland – As a geopolitical conflict continues to simmer, people are dying in the forests on either side of the border between Poland and Belarus. This weekend, the body … Read More
‘Please save us’: Refugees face death at Poland-Belarus border
Thousands of refugees and migrants trying to cross into the European Union are stranded along the Belarusian border as Poland has denied them entry amid a standoff with Belarus. Fears … Read More
UN rights chief urges ‘de-escalation’ of Poland-Belarus crisis
United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has called on Belarus and Poland to de-escalate the “intolerable” migrant crisis on their shared border and said those stranded at the frontier … Read More