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The Portuguese Council for Refugees has pledged to provide legal assistance to Omar Al-Hayali, an Iraqi national who was recently assaulted in Lisbon's Alameda Afonso Henriques.
For two weeks, Ukrainian mothers and children trade sirens, absences, and waiting for a house in Ourém, the beach, museums, football, and silence. These are not holidays like any other. It is a brief pause for children who lost their parents in the war and for women who still live between grief, bureaucracy, and a country trying to carry on.
The news outlet NOW followed the journey of a group of Ukrainian women and children as they travelled to Portugal.
CMTV followed the 27-hour journey of several Ukrainians to Portugal. This Sunday, families visited the Benfica stadium.
CMTV special correspondents, Diogo Carreira and Marc Ricardo Silva, will follow the journey of HELPUA.PT, which is bringing women and children who lost husbands and fathers in the war to Portugal.
A new group of Ukrainian families fleeing the conflict is set to arrive in Lisbon today, continuing Portugal's humanitarian efforts.
A group of women and children who have lost their husbands and fathers in the war are currently travelling to Portugal.
An association is helping Ukrainian citizens relocate to Portugal in search of improved living conditions.
The Portuguese government continues to decline the intake of refugees while the ongoing legal dispute remains unresolved.
Vasco Malta, Head of Mission for the International Organization for Migration in Portugal, anticipates the possibility of new mass migration flows following the war in the Middle East.
Four years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting a war that continues to this day. Anna and Kateryna chose Portugal as their refuge — and they no longer think about leaving.
They are ordinary, unnamed people who rescued other unnamed people who regret having been left without support or aid during the storm. One of these unnamed rescuers, who saved possessions — or more than that — of others, was given a telling-off by his boss for missing work while carrying out anonymous acts of heroism. Reports from CNN Portugal in the devastated country.
REPORT || The fire brigade in Pataias, Leiria, was surprised when a couple of Syrian refugees brought three trays of chicken mandi to feed them, before they saw for themselves the damage the storm had done to their farm. Nearby, a retired man saved his wife by bracing with his shoulders a window that had been blown by the wind.
Leitão Amaro says there is no payment planned at present. Brussels is reviewing Portuguese data after the discovery of a further million immigrants in the country.
According to Diário de Notícias, Portugal will pay more than eight million euros in order not to host around 420 asylum seekers.
A grandmother, 15 mothers and 18 children, victims of the war in Ukraine, arrived in Lisbon on Saturday.
The Government argues that Portugal is under migratory pressure and refuses to commit to hosting refugees under the European solidarity mechanism. This week, there was a European agreement to distribute 21,000 asylum seekers. Portugal voted against it and now wants to negotiate an exception with the Commission.
Portugal voted against the European Commission's Solidarity Mechanism to resettle 21,000 refugees in member states next year. The government claims that the Commission does not have an accurate picture of the national migration pressure, but assures that it is working to find a solution.
