You may have seen in the news that a large amount of rescue ships have been coming to Italy with the country threatening to close its ports unless EU members do more to help with the migrant crisis. UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi said in a statement last weekend “Italy is playing its part in receiving those rescued and providing asylum to those in need of protection, but this cannot be an Italian problem alone. It is, first and foremost, a matter of interna

Graphic courtesy of the Home Office Dr Edie Friedman, Executive Director of JCORE welcomes the new announcement from the Home Office that the Syrian refugee resettlement programme, under which 20,000 vulnerable people are to be brought to Britain by 2020, is to be expanded to include other nationalities caught up in the crisis. Edie said: "We welcome this news as it recognises the complexity of the situation in Syria, where a number of different people of different nationalit