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Train Hits 4 Migrants in Calais in Northern France, 1 Dead - Reports

Urdu Point 05 Nov 2021
About 2,000 refugees are currently accommodated in Calais, which serves as the main coastal point of departure for ...
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Seven UK NGOs Aiding Refugees in Calais Might Stop Work As Funder Backs Out

Urdu Point 03 Nov 2021
Seven UK charities providing aid to refugees in Calais in northern France said they may have to cease operations after Choose Love, a celebrity-funded NGO, cut off funding ... An estimated 2,000 refugees are currently in Calais.
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Little Amal: Giant puppet completes trans-European trek in Manchester

BBC News 03 Nov 2021
A giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee has completed a journey of 5,000 miles (8,000 km) from the Turkish-Syrian border to the UK ... Crowds chanted "refugees are welcome" as they waited for Little Amal. The project, called The Walk, is from the team that reproduced Calais refugee camp The Jungle on stage.
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Little Amal: Wigan welcomes giant refugee puppet to town

BBC News 01 Nov 2021
Hundreds of people gathered in Wigan to welcome a giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee to the town ... migrants and to "rewrite the narrative about refugees". The project, called The Walk, is from the team that reproduced Calais refugee camp The Jungle on stage.
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Calais migrants facing ‘very dangerous’ conditions as temperatures drop

London Evening Standard 31 Oct 2021
Refugee settlements in Calais have become more temporary and dispersed in recent years following the destruction of The Jungle camp ... .
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The UK and France are still ignoring the realities of life for refugees and migrants ...

The Independent 25 Oct 2021
At the time, conditions for refugees in Calais were well known in the UK – the issue was regularly debated in parliament and the destruction of the camp was covered widely ... But the reality is, conditions for refugees in Calais are among the worst they’ve ever been.
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French priest on hunger strike for Calais migrants

The New Arab 25 Oct 2021
An elderly Catholic priest was among three activists to enter their third week of a hunger strike on Monday to protest the "unbearable harassment" faced by migrants and refugees in Calais ... Among the three hungerstrikers is Jesuit Father Philippe Demeest�re, aged 72, a prominent member of the religious and charity landscape of Calais.
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Little Amal: War Horse creators' refugee puppet lands in the UK

BBC News 19 Oct 2021
The project, called The Walk, is from the team that reproduced Calais refugee camp The Jungle on stage ... There is a total team of 11 puppeteers, including two from refugee backgrounds. The puppet is crafted from moulded cane and carbon fibre ... The aim was to shine a light on the stories of the millions of displaced refugee children she represents ... .
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‘People felt threatened even by a puppet refugee’: Little Amal’s epic walk through love and fear

The Observer 18 Oct 2021
In France, the mayor of Calais raised objections to her presence ... All along the route, the production has visited refugee camps and organised creative projects with real child refugees ... Former refugees from Calais are among those working as puppeteers for the production, manipulating her arms in greeting as she walks through European cities.
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Giant Syrian refugee puppet nears journey’s end

Taipei Times 18 Oct 2021
Little Amal,’ a giant puppet depicting a Syrian refugee girl, walks on a road in Calais, France on Sunday before heading to the UK as part of the international art project, The Walk ... play about young refugees in a camp near Calais that opened at the Young Vic in London in 2017.
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Little Amal in Britain: giant puppet of Syrian girl reaches her journey’s end

The Observer 17 Oct 2021
The idea of Little Amal’s journey in search of her missing mother evolved from The Jungle, a highly acclaimed play about young refugees in a camp near Calais that opened at the Young Vic in London in 2017 ... But the most powerful connections had been with refugees, said Lan ... remember refugees are people.
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The United Kingdom and France’s Dispute Regarding Asylum-Seekers

OWP 12 Oct 2021
However, Suleiman, and many like him, face increasingly worsening conditions in France due to police brutality and the removal of pathways for achieving refugee status mentioned in UNHCR’s 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol ... Refugee encampments in Calais have turned into destitute living environments with little access to needed resources.
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Showing the Despair, and the Beauty, in Migrants’ Lives

Human Rights Watch 07 Oct 2021
Their experience reminded me of when I was a refugee as a child.”. I’d been hearing about Abdul for months from aid group volunteers in Calais ... Life in a refugee camp was a subject I knew very well.” ... An abandoned warehouse in Calais was the site of a migrant encampment before it was demolished in June 2021.
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Enforced Misery

Human Rights Watch 07 Oct 2021
In both Calais and Grande-Synthe, aid groups ... Refugee Children in Calais Face Unprecedented Risk of Abuse,” Independent, October 6, 2020, https.//www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/calais-child-refugees-children-channel-france-home-office-b555833.html (accessed July 19, 2021).
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Jodie Comer to make West End debut in one-woman drama about sexual assault

The Observer 01 Oct 2021
Jodie Comer is to make her West End stage debut in a one-person play about a criminal barrister who defends men accused of rape ... Prima Facie will be directed by Justin Martin, who is currently working on a film adaptation of his production of The Jungle, an acclaimed play about refugees living in the migrant camp in Calais ... Read more ... .

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