Refugees

UNHCR Innovation project teams are working with communities to nurture new ideas that respond to climate and environment challenges in diverse contexts. In 2023, communities across the globe are dealing with interrelated but locally specific environmental and climate challenges. Humans are key players in our diverse and balanced ecosystems. Just…

THRIVE Gulu is a women-led, grassroots non-governmental organization founded in 2010 that provides essential trauma recovery services to individuals and communities in post-conflict northern Uganda. With support from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund), it is running a project in Odek sub-county in Omoro…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Associated Press, ²BBC News, ³Al Jazeera, ⁴Euronews and ⁵Guardian. The Lebanese government said on Friday that at least 73 people drowned, and dozens are still missing, after a boat carrying migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of…

A Haiku Poem refugees carrying their worldly goods trudge past the snail First published on NaHaiWriMo. If you love haiku and would like to learn how to write them, check out Haiku For Beginners.

We all come with nothing and leave with nothing, But leaving my home for a new foreign land comes with violent avalanches. In a foreign land never willing to open up, Complexities rise up between the host country and the identity of immigrants. Refugees are the source of ills and…

Thoughts on a different type of book on borders I have planned on writing a book about refugees and open borders for some time. It may be finished, it might not be, but this may give people an idea of where I am currently at with thinking about how it…

Italy and Frontex lied about their knowledge of a boat in distress that sank in February, drowning 94 people//Over 100 refugees have been flown out of Libya to be resettled in Norway//Utopia 56 report on the removal of migrant tents by local authorities in Calais//The Immigration Bill will prevent asylum seeking children from being given protection and safety in the UK… — FEATURE: IRC Afghanistan Report — An urgent need to expand safe pathways, and develop an inclusive and welcoming asylum procedure

Multiple deaths reported throughout the Mediterranean // 400 people arrive safely in Italy // 1000 new places for people on the move in Calabria // Undocumented children to receive registration in Kyrgyzstan // 500 young people now housed in occupied school in Paris // Frontex to take key role in…

The walls are white and barren. It doesn’t seem like we have lived here for over a year. We have done nothing to make the space our own except for a couple of Lego cars and a Lego White House on one of the built-in bland black shelves. The pickle…