This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rwanda and Uganda have rejected claims of signing a controversial deal to take in African migrants from Israel. Earlier this week, Israel approved a plan to force asylum seekers to choose between indefinite detention…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On December 4, 2000, the United Nations declared December 18 as International Migrants Day. The U.N. did so to recognize the increasing number of migrants around the world and to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in every 113 people on the planet is now a refugee. Around the world, someone is displaced every three seconds, forced from their homes by violence, war and persecution.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the end of August, more than half a million Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim minority in Burma (Myanmar), have fled violence in that country and crossed the border into Bangladesh…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Closed borders, racism, xenophobic attacks, rejected asylum applications, poverty and lengthy waits. These experiences are what many refugees and migrants in Greece say defined 2017 for them. More than 60,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Beyond the numbers, our DACA youth are teachers, nurses, firefighters, non-profit workers, and the laborers building the infrastructure and roads that keep society running. When advocates and allies of Dreamers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On two recent episodes of popular radio show and podcast This American Life, hosts Ira Glass and Miki Meek explored a demographic shift in Albertville, Alabama, a rural city that experienced a huge influx…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When members of Congress battled over the budget, some threatened to block funding unless Congress provided amnesty to illegal alien Dreamers who benefited from President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What would you do with $100 million? There were nearly 2,000 proposed answers to that question since the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched its 100&Change competition. On Wednesday, the foundation announced that Sesame Workshop and International…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Under dim lights in her apartment, Khulood Nasher clutched two winter coats, with the price tags still on, for her sons trapped in Yemen’s war. The last time she saw them, Omar…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in the month after violence broke out in Myanmar in August, Doctors Without Borders (DWB) says. Previously, the armed forces stated that around 400…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In every humanitarian crisis, affected communities need information immediately about how to access vital aid services or reconnect with family members. At the same time, they require established feedback mechanisms…