SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 | Priyali Sur | INTERNATIONAL Many of the 3,000 refugees who spent last night on the Serbian side of the Roszke Horgos border are women and children. Hungary shut its border with Serbia on Tuesday, saying that refugees had to apply for asylum from a transit center before entering the country. Hungarian authorities said that criminal proceedings would be launched… Continue Reading
Playtime For Refugee Girls in Greece
These were originally published in Women Under Siege http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/author/profile/priyali-sur By Priyali Sur/Contributor — August 4, 2016 Samos, Greece—“My friend, my friend!” Two little Syrian girls come running toward me as they see the camera around my neck. These two words are part of their limited English vocabulary, a language they are being taught in school… Continue Reading
Why Record Numbers of African Migrants Are Showing Up at the U.S.-Mexican Border
Europe’s failure to help refugees in Libya is driving them across the Atlantic. BY PRIYALI SUR | JUNE 26, 2019, 1:12 PM One recent June week, the United States stopped a record number of African refugees and migrants at its southern border. Hundreds of people fleeing violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, and… Continue Reading