Migration & Refugees

Breaking Menstruation Taboos and Leaving No Girl Behind

By Joyce Chimbi
Fourteen-year-old Hadiza smiles as she clutches a purple bag in her hands. Inside the cloth bag is a Menstrual Hygiene Management kit, an essential item that gives her dignity and enables her to continue with school even when menstruating.

Transgender Ukrainian Refugees Impacted as War with Russia Continues

By Ed Holt
Soon after Russia invaded her country, Anastasiia Yeva Domani found herself forced to abandon the regime of vital medicines she was taking. The transgender activist could no longer get hold of the hormone medicines she needed to regularly take in Ukraine as supply chains were disrupted and the vast majority of pharmacies were closed.

Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part II: Hungary, Poland

By Baher Kamal
Part I of this two-part series focused on the cases of the United Kingdom and Greece. This article will deal with how Hungary has been criminalising organisations that provide humanitarian assistance to migrants, and how Poland 'arbitrarily’ detains thousands of asylum seekers.

Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part I: UK, Greece

By Baher Kamal
In what looks pretty much like an ‘operation clean sweep’ aiming at getting rid of more and more migrants, refugees and asylum seekers by shipping them far away, the process of ‘externalisation’ of millions of victims of wars, poverty, climate crisis and political persecution, is now growing fast

Migrants and Health Workers Play Complex ‘Game’ on Europe’s Fringes

By Sara Perria
Responding to several shouts Viraj emerges from the ruins of his shelter in northwest Bosnia. He is originally from India but is now squatting near Bihać in what remains of a house abandoned since the 1990s Balkans war.

High Cost of Debt is Crippling Developing Nations: How can we Bridge the Finance Divide?

By Navid Hanif
As the world is rocked by a confluence of crises, the global economic outlook for 2022 is becoming ever more uncertain and fragile. Prospects for sustainable development for all and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 are bleak, particularly for developing countries.

War in Ukraine & Rise in Arms Spending Undermine Development Aid to the World’s Poor

By Thalif Deen
The unprecedented flow of arms to Ukraine, and the rising miliary spending by European nations to strengthen their defenses, are threatening to undermine development aid to the world’s poorer nations.

ECW, Strategic Partners Bring Relief to Child Refugees Fleeing Ukrainian Conflict

By Joyce Chimbi
A brutal war now engulfs the young lives of an estimated 7.5 million children in Ukraine. Caught in the crossfire of bullets and missiles as the conflict escalates, children and young people have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis.

Connecting the Dots for the Transforming Education Summit

By Yasmine Sherif
Look around the world at this very moment. Whether we look at it in stark numbers and statistics, whether we look at it as a generational loss of basic human rights, including the right to an education, or whether we look inwardly and feel the unspeakable human suffering and devastation taking place, we all agree: we are at a historically low point in our collective humanity.

Twilight for the 1951 Refugee Convention

By Joseph Chamie
Twilight for the 1951 Refugee Convention is becoming a 21st century reality for an increasing number of countries worldwide.

How a Massive Climate Project Can Help Win Peace for Ukraine – And Help African Job + Food Crises

By Julius Awaregya, Rev. Mpho Tutu van Furth and Don Mullan
How would the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu have reacted to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine? Differently than you might think. The invasion of Ukraine is a mass human tragedy. It is killing Ukrainians, exposing families to violent atrocities, and has driven a refugee crisis of over 4 million people and counting. The war in Ukraine has also reawakened our fear of global war - even nuclear war - and the importance we place on global peace.

US Migration Policy Is Enriching Cartels at the Busiest, and Most Dangerous, Part of the US-Mexico Border

By Adam Isacson
“The migrants try to organize themselves to stay safe,” a humanitarian worker told me as we stood near a town square in Reynosa, Mexico, steps away from the U.S. border. More than 2,000 people from many countries, blocked from asking for asylum in the United States, were packed into this square block, living under tents and tarps, amid port-a-potties and cooking fires. Children were everywhere.

War, Displacement & A Global Refugee Crisis: A Wake-Up Call to Increase Refugee Participation

By Sania Farooqui
It has been a month since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has now created one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. More than 3.7 million people have left the country, in what has become the fastest exodus globally since World War II.

War in Ukraine Morally Unacceptable, Politically Indefensible & Militarily Nonsensical

By Michelle Bachelet
For more than one month now, the entire population of Ukraine has been enduring a living nightmare. The lives of millions of people are in upheaval as they are forced to flee their homes or hide in basements and bomb shelters as their cities are pummeled and destroyed.

Women, Children Fleeing Ukraine Vulnerable to Human Trafficking

By Ed Holt
States must do more to protect women and children fleeing war in Ukraine, rights groups have urged, amid growing concerns they are falling prey to trafficking and sexual violence.

Should NATO Enter the Russian-Ukrainian Fray?

By Alon Ben-Meir
It is hard to describe the excruciatingly painful destruction Putin is inflicting on Ukraine. However, whereas NATO should provide Ukraine with active defensive military equipment, it should not directly join the war which could ignite a major European if not world war.

Pandemic Pushes SDGs Further out of Reach of Asia and the Pacific

By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana
2022 marks the second anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, and while an end to the pandemic is in sight, it is far from over and the consequences will be felt for decades to come. At the same time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is becoming increasingly distant. The region must use the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a roadmap to a fairer recovery.

Refugees Recount Harrowing Escape from Besieged Ukraine

By Ed Holt
“I never, ever, believed that anything like this could happen,” says Valia*. “Not for a second.” Just two weeks ago, the English teacher says, she had been living a normal life in Kropyvnytskyi in central Ukraine with her 13-year-old son. But on February 24, she woke up to the news that Russia had invaded her country.

‘Brutal’ Discrimination Adds Trauma to Roma as they Flee War-torn Ukraine

By Ed Holt
Roma refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine are facing discrimination on both sides of the country’s borders at the end of often harrowing journeys across the country, rights groups have claimed.

A Tale of Two Refugee Crises

By Rachael Reilly and Michael Flynn
Russia’s brutal and devastating invasion of Ukraine has triggered the largest and fastest refugee movement in Europe since World War II. After only a single week, more than one million people had already fled the country.

Before It Kills, War Whispers

By Elena L. Pasquini
A small yellow puppet hangs from the butt of a gun. The eyes and shorts of the figure that children love are just traces of faded black. "It's a detail, but it tells what the war is."
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