Refugee Crisis

For many of us, home is more than just a wood, brick, and concrete building that we live and sleep in every day. Home represents safety, a space where families leave behind the worries and challenges of the outside world and come together to exchange laughter, memories, and unconditional love…

III/V: The Unplanned and Uncoordinated Immigration Policies — When large influxes of refugees began arriving in Turkey, the government, which had already collapsed in all its institutions due to nepotism and corruption, was unable to produce a proper policy. The bureaucratic class and the foreign policy-making politicians at the time were inadequate, ignorant, and delusional “neo-Ottomanists.” Thus, if…

Quickly referred to as the Melilla Massacre, the events on 24 June 2022 that led to hundreds of injured and 23 confirmed casualties are a testament to the excessively violent methods used on migrants at borders. …

Whilst international customary and treaty laws have been quite concise and clear regarding civilian protection and the obligation of relevant parties toward the non-combatant population where military operations take effect, little has been written on what kind of responsibilities the authorities have toward refugees and internally displaced persons in the…

In conversation with Future Yugoslavia: When the Refugees came to the Balkans. In the 90s the Balkan region was the one sending refugees to Europe but in 2015 the refugees came to the Balkans instead, and the film collective ‘Future Yugoslavia’ was there to document it. The two sides of the Border. At the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, a…

It has become a globally accepted standard that the right to life includes the right to livelihood. This simply means that it is not enough for one to be alive but one must equally assess whether this life is one lived with dignity or not. Uganda has witnessed a great…

Over the centuries, humanity has evolved socially and biologically as a response to its environment. It is clear that creating a healthy environment, that is good for our social, mental and emotional growth is vital for the sake of our evolution as a species. …

ECPC endorses Toolkit on Nurturing the Spiritual Development of Young Children at World Day Symposium in Rome ECPC News report by Dr. Siobhán Fitzpatrick World Day of Prayer and Action for Children Symposium On 17–18 November 2022, an assembly of global leaders from interfaith communities and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) gathered in Rome, Italy to observe the World Day of…

In 2020 we dreamed of the post-COVID era and were afraid that the happy time would never come. Now in 2023, we look back to 2020 with a sort of wise smirk. Now we know a lot of things that we would have preferred to never know. …