Male refugees said sexual assault forced them to flee their homes in hopes they could find peace, but they became victims of corruption instead. A…
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seven-month investigation found reports of U.N. staff members exploiting refugees desperate for a safe home in a new country. Gratien Zimy Ntezimisi, a refugee whistleblower,…
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A seven-month investigation found reports of U.N. staff members exploiting refugees desperate for a safe home in a new country. A woman throws stones at…
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With the administrative-political situation in Libya badly stalemated and a meeting for negotiations to be held 14-16 April unlikely to make progress, on Thursday 4…
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What the Belgian Congo was like Mixed-race children born in 1940s and 50s were forcibly taken from Congolese mothers Belgium’s prime minister, Charles Michel, is…
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By Kylie Kiunguyu Ethiopia’s parliament has adopted revisions to its existing refugee law, making it one of the most progressive refugee policies in Africa. The…
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Photo: WEF The Co-Chairs of this year’s Annual Meeting have delivered a strong call to action to participants in Davos. Perhaps the most emotional plea came…
View More From a Refugee Camp to Davos: One Co-Chair’s StorySeparating families is the most terrifying form of state oppression to maintain dominance over populations The story of hijrah – the migration of the first…
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Tara Copp The White House late Tuesday signed a memo allowing troops stationed at the border to engage in some law enforcement roles and use…
View More American Thanksgiving, Another Massacre, as Migrants Face “Lethal Force” at US Border
On PEN International’s ‘Day of the Imprisoned Writer’, Roy says his arrest ‘is an attack not on intellectuals but on intelligence’. To, Shahidul Alam Champakali…
View More ‘The tide will turn’: Arundhati Roy’s letter to jailed Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam
Under a midday blazing sun in Kampala, we are driving hesitantly over the newly paved roads of Nsambya and Katwe suburb. A pedestrian signals us…
View More Building Resilience Far from Home: Communal Democracy Practices amongst Urban Congolese Refugees in Uganda
Ladies and gentlemen, members of the Nobel Prize Committee; dear friends of peace, friends of humanity, It is with great humility that I learned of…
View More A Message from 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Denis Mukwege