Migration & Refugees

OPINION: Can the Violence in Honduras Be Stopped?

By Lisa Haugaard, Sarah Kinosian, and William Hartung
Honduras is one of the most violent nations in the world. The situation in the country’s second largest city, San Pedro Sula, demonstrates the depth of the problem.

Negev Bedouin Resist Israeli Demolitions “To Show We Exist”

By Silvia Boarini
Lehavim Junction in the northern Negev in Israel has been the backdrop to protests against home demolitions in Bedouin localities for the past four and half years.

OPINION: U.S. and Middle East after the Islamic State

By Emile Nakhleh
As the Congress ponders President Barack Obama’s request for an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to fight the Islamic State (ISIS or IS), U.S. policymakers must focus on the “morning after” before they embark on another potentially disastrous war in the Levant.

Latin American Migrants Suffer Prejudice in Their Own Region

By Fabiana Frayssinet
In the movie “A Day Without a Mexican“, the mysterious disappearance of all Mexicans brings the state of California to a halt. Would the same thing happen in some Latin American countries if immigrants from neighbouring countries, who suffer the same kind of discrimination, went missing?

Mass Rapes Reported in Darfur as Conflict Escalates

By Josh Butler
More than 200 Darfurian women were reportedly raped by Sudanese troops in one brutal assault on a town in October 2014, with the conflict in war-torn Darfur escalating to new heights.

Conflict-Related Displacement: A Huge Development Challenge for India

By Priyanka Borpujari
The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

OPINION: The Plight of Women and Girls in Zambezi’s Floods

By Julitta Onabanjo and Michael Charles
The flooding of the Zambezi River has had devastating consequences for three countries in Southern Africa. The three worst affected countries are Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 

Conflict-Related Displacement: A Huge Development Challenge for India

By Priyanka Borpujari
The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

Marginalised Groups Struggle to Access Healthcare in Conflict-Torn East Ukraine

By Pavol Stracansky
With international organisations warning that East Ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe as its health system collapses, marginalised groups are among those facing the greatest struggle to access even basic health care in the war-torn region.

OPINION: A New Era of Hemispheric Cooperation Is Possible

By Luis Almagro
Two decades after the first Summit of the Americas, a lot has changed in the continent and it has been for the good. Today, a renewed hemispheric dialogue without exclusions is possible.

Boko Haram Insurgents Threaten Cameroon’s Educational Goals

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
“I’d quit my job before going to work in a place like that.” That is how a primary school teacher responded when IPS asked him why he had not accepted a job in Cameroon’s Far North region.

OPINION: Global Citizenship, A Result of Emerging Global Consciousness

By Arsenio Rodriguez
Globalisation is an integral feature of modernity. It already has significantly advanced to transform local experiences into global ones, to unify the disparate villages of the world into a global community, and to integrate national economies into an international economy.

From the American Dream to the Nightmare of Deportation

By Edgardo Ayala
Julio César Cordero’s American dream didn’t last long. He was trying to reach Houston, Texas as an undocumented immigrant but was detained in Acayucán in southeastern Mexico. And like thousands of other deported Salvadorans, he doesn’t know what the future will hold.

Syrian Students on the Frontline of Conflict

By Kanya D'Almeida
While millions around the world are celebrating the dawn of a new year and the promise of change, hundreds of thousands of Syrian children have little reason to hope that 2015 will bring better days.

Syrian Refugees Between Containers and Tents in Turkey

By Fabíola Ortiz
“We ran as if we were ants fleeing out of the nest. I moved to three different cities in Syria to try to be away from the conflict, but there was no safe place left in my country so we decided to move out.”

Pakistan’s Tribal Areas Demand Repatriation of Afghan Refugees

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
They number between two and three million; some have lived in makeshift shelters for just a few months, while others have roots that stretch much further back into history. Most fled to escape war, others simply ran away from joblessness.

U.S. Twists Arms to Help Defeat Resolution on Palestine

By Thalif Deen
The United States re-asserted its political and economic clout - and its ability to twist arms and perhaps metaphorically break kneecaps - when it successfully lobbied to help defeat a crucial Security Council resolution on the future of Palestine this week.

Guantánamo Paradoxes Tested in Uruguay

By Diana Cariboni
In the summery afternoon of a beachside neighbourhood not far from the Uruguayan capital, nothing could sound more unusual than the Muslim call to prayer chanted by Tunisian Abdul Bin Mohammed Ourgy, a few days after being freed from the United States military prison in Guantánamo, Cuba.

Ruble’s Rout Breeds Uncertainty for Central Asian Migrants

By EurasiaNet Correspondents
Sardor Abdullayev, a construction worker from eastern Uzbekistan, had planned to go to Russia next spring to join relatives working construction sites in the Volga River city of Samara. But now, he says, “I am better off staying at home and driving a taxi.”

School Dropout Rate Soars for Afghan Refugees

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
“Our children quitting school is the greatest pain we have suffered during our troublesome lives here,” says Multan Shah, a vegetable-seller in a shantytown of Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of Pakistan's four provinces.

‘Cyclone College’ Raises Hopes, Dreams of India’s Vulnerable Fisherfolk

By Stella Paul
Ten years have now passed, but Raghu Raja, a 27-year-old fisherman from the coastal village of Nemmeli in southern India’s Kanchipuram district, still clearly remembers the day he escaped the tsunami.
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