Solar is the energy of choice in refugee camps around the world that are turning to clean energy, whether at the initiative of UN agencies, humanitarian groups or governments.Read the full article
“In the media, migrants are usually treated as number or statistics. Cinema, on the other hand, allows their personal stories to be told. It gives a voice to individuals.”Read the full article
Eastern DR Congo is once again faced with a major influx of people displaced by the war. With authorities failing to respond adequately, the local population has taken matters into their own hands, providing concrete solutions and reinventing political [...]Read the full article
Farhad Mirza:The West keeps shifting the blame for these failures on smugglers and dodgy economic migrants but it is time it reckoned with its active role in shaping this murderous landscape.Read the full article
Mohammad Al Maita:From the point of view of trade unions, which play a crucial role in defending the rights and welfare of all workers, including refugees, the refugee situation in Jordan presents unique challenges and opportunities.Read the full article
Since 2022, Poland has been presenting itself as a land of solidarity, having welcomed 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees. This solidarity stands in stark contrast with the reality faced by the people crossing the Bialowieza Forest as migrants and refugees from non-European [...]Read the full article
Abdeslam Marfouk:Despite the increase in absolute terms, the number of international migrants is still a very small fraction of the world population: 3.6 per cent in 2020, compared to 2.5 per cent in 1960. This means that 97 out of every 100 people in the world today still live in their country of [...]Read the full article
Owen Tudor:“Under incredibly difficult circumstances, and frequently at great personal risk, trade unionists have been delivering humanitarian assistance and working to keep the economy, especially vital services, going.”Read the full article
According to the organisations working to protect migrants, the closed camp is like a “prison” and is detrimental to their mental health. Initiatives have emerged on the island to help take the asylum seekers’ minds off these difficulties and give them fresh hope in their search for a new [...]Read the full article
“Nobody has been preparing to provide services to people who are running from war. Everybody is working with trauma now, but it’s hard to have those skills.”Read the full article
According to Human Rights Watch, “Syria is not safe for refugee return”. In June, Muhammad Fawzi Akkad became the first Syrian refugee to win a case against Turkey when the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkish authorities had unlawfully deported [...]Read the full article
While refugee children are consistently less likely to go to school than others, in Mbera, Mauritania, the percentage of pupils in primary and secondary school is particularly low. But even in this context, ICT and online training are opening new [...]Read the full article
“Even before the outbreak of the war we had issues with illegal employment and even cases of forced labour. Now given the scale of the crisis, we have a lot of concerns.”Read the full article
A decision by Nigeria’s government to close the camps housing hundreds of thousands of refugees uprooted by the Boko Haram conflict has cost lives, increased human trafficking and labour exploitation in the area, and will make it harder for NGOs to provide humanitarian [...]Read the full article
It is estimated that there are 12 million refugees with disabilities around the world. At higher risk of violence, exploitation and abuse, they are among the most vulnerable groups of refugees.Read the full article
After more than four decades of fighting for the freedom of their people, the Sahrawis are now tending to put individual wellbeing and the fundamental rights of the population before the collective struggle.Read the full article
Fighting has been raging in north-eastern Mozambique since 2017. Jihadists are doing battle with government troops and terrorising the civilian population. Mozambicans are fleeing the violence in their thousands, most often to neighbouring [...]Read the full article
These disappearances have legal repercussions for the relatives, who cannot declare the death or distribute the inheritance, as well as the psychosocial repercussions of not being able to go through the mourning process.Read the full article
The hotline is a vital link in a chain of solidarity that has been activated in the face of European public institutions’ neglect of their duties. The others include NGOs that provide shelter and material aid to migrants and refugees, or those carrying out maritime rescue [...]Read the full article
A confluence of economic and social factors are fostering change within refugee communities. The nuclear family and traditional roles have been disrupted by forced displacement, placing education, business management and even community leadership opportunities within women’s [...]Read the full article
Within days, countries bordering Ukraine had to organise large-scale humanitarian support systems to help people fleeing the Russian army’s attacks. But in Poland, Moldova and Romania, it is becoming clear that the reception of refugees will have to be a long-term [...]Read the full article
Jeremy Dear:“We have to change our location daily to hide from the Taliban as they are checking and searching for the people who always talked against them and women who appeared on the radio, television. Living such a life is very hard.”Read the full article
With an economy based on banking and tourism, Lebanon produces very little and therefore has to import 80 per cent of its consumer goods, including fertilisers, seeds and animal feed. To get by, farmers are developing ecological alternatives, but their options are [...]Read the full article
Pakistan has one of the largest refugee populations in the world, and for decades, carpet weaving has been one of the few options available to Afghan women refugees who want to work.Read the full article
“This is a very simple story - a story of ongoing colonialism in the 21st century, carried out, perpetuated and perpetrated by both the British and US governments.”Read the full article
In Lebanon, a country where the pandemic and the explosion at its main port have intensified an already deep economic crisis, child labour is an uncomfortable reality and the result of failed policies for the protection of children, both local and [...]Read the full article
As the Central African Republic experiences new outbreaks of violence, people are fleeing en masse to neighbouring countries, posing the risk of a humanitarian disaster.Read the full article
From Serbia to Bosnia, from Croatia to Slovenia, volunteers assisting refugees stranded along the Balkan route face animosity, obstruction and harassment.Read the full article
Experts agree that climate change is affecting mobility. However, the relationship between these two things is not straightforward, as it is often portrayed, but complex, multicausal and context specific.Read the full article
Between 500 and 800 migrants survive under extremely precarious conditions in Calais, northern France. Despite daily evictions from camps and increasing police pressure, they hold out the hope of making the crossing to the United [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Morocco is continuing to score points in its overt bid to gain total control of Western Sahara, tipping the balance ever more clearly in its favour. The UN and the ‘Group of Friends’ have long since given up on jeopardising their ties with Rabat for the sake of the [...]Read the full article
Tens of thousands of Uyghurs have fled China in recent years since Beijing began its policy of subjugation and assimilation of the minority group. Around 60,000 of them have found relative safety in Turkey, but pressure from China has made their future [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:The EU’s current approach is not only censurable for all that it entails in terms of neglect of duty, non-compliance with international commitments and collaboration with the endless atrocities committed by mafias and governments, but also, and all the more so, for the simple reason that it does [...]Read the full article
Senegalese fishermen are hindered by the scarcity of fish resources and competition from foreign boats. Facing a lack of opportunity, many decide to go into exile to Europe.Read the full article
The uncertainties faced by young Sahrawis go beyond their future personal lives and employment prospects. Living in refugee camps that are in the midst of change despite the apparent immobility, they are also confronted with the task of building their [...]Read the full article
As the world retreats and nations implement drastic social distancing measures in response to the coronavirus, aid workers are facing, with very little means, an additional danger which threatens to strike already highly vulnerable [...]Read the full article
With five directors and around 20 associates, the Valencia-based NGO Supervivientes del Aquarius (Survivors of the Aquarius) is made up of people rescued by the popular humanitarian ship and functions as a vehicle for migrants to make their own voices [...]Read the full article
By bringing forward charges of genocide of the Rohingya to the International Court of Justice, Gambia has set an important precedent for south-south solidarity against human rights violations.Read the full article
Europe is trying to increase the level of family-based care provided to unaccompanied foreign minors. Growing up within a family makes it easier for them to integrate and keeps them away from the risks of the streets.Read the full article
Uganda’s Comfort Dog Project is the first initiative in Africa to use dogs as a form of therapy for survivors trying to heal from the trauma of war.Read the full article
The dramatic decrease in Mediterranean crossings corresponds sharply with increased flows from Africa to south America. Deaths at sea are being replaced by deaths in the Darién.Read the full article
All over the world, coastal areas are losing ground. While the latest IPCC report recommends strengthening protection systems, other strategies are emerging, such as the removal of infrastructure and housing, and are highlighting the social inequalities in the distribution of [...]Read the full article
With record low-unemployment rates and millions of Polish people of working age living and working elsewhere, an estimated 1.5 million migrant workers are needed by 2025 to power the country’s economic growth.Read the full article
“It’s not just about preserving seeds or growing vegetables at home. It’s also about taking back control over certain aspects of life, in a place where everyone’s lives are controlled by the Israeli military occupation.”Read the full article