Migration & Refugees

OP-ED: If You Build It, They Will Go Around It

By Peter Costantini
Puzzled by the immigration debate in the United States? Remember the Maginot Line.

New Bid for Mideast Talks after Five-Year Hiatus

By Mitchell Plitnick
There is a real opportunity for peacemaking between Israel and the Palestinians, even though the obstacles are more formidable than in the past. That was the assessment of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, speaking Monday at a public event which posed the question “Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved?”

Undocumented Workers Find Courage in Solidarity

By Silvia Romanelli
Ataur was 18 when he left Bangladesh and arrived in the United States in 1991 as an undocumented migrant. He took two jobs at the same time, earning about 35 dollars a day in total.

Latin America’s Migration Policies Fall Short

By Fabíola Ortiz
Several years after the start of the economic crisis in the United States and Europe, which led to a shift in migration patterns, Latin America still lacks a more inclusive view of the phenomenon of people seeking a better life abroad.

Q&A: “Did 100,000 People Have to Die, or Disappear?”

By Lucy Westcott
The violent drug war in Mexico's borderlands has changed the face of the country, injecting fear into both average citizens and the journalists trying to tell their stories.

War or Peace, Sri Lankan Women Struggle to Survive

By Amantha Perera
It has been four years since the guns fell silent in Sri Lanka’s northern Vanni region, after almost three decades of ethnic violence. Unfortunately peace does not mean the end of hardship for the most vulnerable people here: the women.

Q&A: World Needs a Plan for Expected Waves of Climate Refugees

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
Untold thousands dead and thousands more stranded or missing - these are the latest figures from various reports on the devastation caused by flash floods in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

Afghan Refugees Dig Their Heels into Pakistani Soil

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Muhammad Shakoor, 42, calls Pakistan home. Born in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, he was bundled across the border during the Soviet invasion of his country in 1979 by his family fleeing the chaos of war.

Asylum Seekers Struggle to Survive Under Israeli Restrictions

By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Tesfahiwet Medin holds a university degree and experience as a nurse. But six years after escaping the violent dictatorship in his native Eritrea, the 39-year-old says he feels like a part of him is missing, as he's been prevented from continuing in his profession in Israel.

Arab Americans Aim at Preserving New York’s Little Syria

By Sudeshna Chowdhury
A brick red, six-story tenement house, St. George Melkite Church and a community house in desperate need of repair are nearly all that remain of a once thriving Arab-American community in downtown New York City.

Swiss Doorways to Refugees Narrow

By Walter García and Ray Smith
Once more, Swiss voters have lashed out against asylum seekers, further tightening the country's already strict asylum law. The government has meanwhile announced a radical restructuring of the asylum procedure.

Highest Number of Refugees in Two Decades

By Walter García and Fabíola Ortiz
Yves Norodom, a 21-year-old refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Brazil, is one of 45.2 million displaced people around the world – the largest number in 20 years.

Haiti’s Earthquake Victims Try to Survive at Camp Corail

By Correspondents
Despite the unforgiving sun and its sweltering heat, Joel Monfiston is working, hammering a piece of worn plywood, watering flowers and picking the weeds out from between rocks and pebbles.

Estonia Not on the Refugee Way

By Walter García and Marian Männi
For asylum seekers, Estonia is the least attractive country in the European Union, so the numbers say. According to Eurostat only 75 people last year asked for protection in this country that borders Russia and Finland. Local human rights activists suspect that many of those in need for help are turned down at the border without getting a chance to ask for asylum.

Leasehold Forestry Brings a New Lease on Life

By Naresh Newar
Nearly 300 km from Nepal’s teeming capital, Kathmandu, in a small village dug into the steep slopes of the mountainous Palpa district, 35-year-old Dhanmaya Pata goes about her daily chores in much the same way that her ancestors did centuries ago.

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Voter Registration Law

By Cydney Hargis
In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down voter application requirements demanding proof of citizenship, making it much easier for naturalised citizens to register to vote.

No “Free Pass” for U.S. in Human Rights Film Festival

By Lucy Westcott
Stories of struggle can be found all over the world, from a law classroom in Oklahoma and the brutal borderlands between the United States and Mexico to a Bedouin village in Jordan and wedding parties in Morocco, as the 24th Human Rights Watch Film Festival is showcasing.

Group Highlights Broken Families in Anti-Deportation Protest

By Lucy Westcott
As the debate on immigration reform continues in the Senate and fractured talks persist about the future of 11 million undocumented migrants, one New York-based group took to the streets to ask their senator a question.

Former War Zone Craves Democracy

By Amantha Perera
For the first time since Sri Lanka’s 30-year-long civil conflict drew to a bloody finish in May 2009, casting an eerie hush over the Northern Province that had grown accustomed to the sounds of war, there is a buzz in the air generated by the prospect of provincial elections that hold the promise of radical change.

Rights Groups Push to Improve New York Sex Trafficking Law

By Lucy Westcott
It started for Ruth when she was 12 years old and for Lowyal when she was 13. After being raped by her mother's boyfriend, Ruth ran away from home and was picked up by a pimp, who sold her into prostitution.

Labour Violations Under Tight Wraps in Thailand

By Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau
Next time you visit Walmart and throw that packet of frozen shrimp in your shopping cart, pause a moment.
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