Tino Calabia

Tino Calabia began his humanitarian work as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s and then ran a Bronx antipoverty agency and wrote numerous federal studies ranging from the rights of female offenders to racial discrimination on college campuses. He has served on national Asian American boards and organized seminars in former Eastern-bloc countries for exchange students he mentored while they lived in the United States. Calabia has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, attended the University of Munich on a foreign-exchange fellowship and has a master's degree in English and American literature from Columbia University. He lives in the Washington area with his wife, Dawn Calabia, who is an honorary adviser to Refugees International.

GEOPOLITICS

Rohingya Refugees Look to Washington and Find a Vacuum

July 30, 2018

by Tino Calabia

This August marks a year since a military crackdown forced at least 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, joining hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who had already taken refuge there, totaling 1.1 million people encamped in Cox’s Bazar, according to a Bangladesh count done this July. But you would never know from the …

Asia, Geopolitics, Refugees, US Foreign Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

Why Turkey’s Model Work Permits for Refugees Don’t Actually Work

February 5, 2018

by Tino Calabia

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A major problem with Turkey for the millions of refugees there, it has a model work permit system for the newcomers, but it still bars them from the country’s labor market. Such problems can be overcome, experts contend, so that the refugees can work for decent wages in Turkey. Izza Leghtas, …

Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees, Syria, WORLDVIEWS

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A Poverty-Easing Plan to Help Displaced People and Their Host Countries

December 9, 2016

by Tino Calabia

WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year ago, almost 1 percent of the world’s population, about 65 million people, had been forcibly displaced from their homes. That is a population size that would constitute a nation larger than Britain or would be the world’s 21st-largest country. But instead of creating their own country, the majority of the …

Development, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Migration, Refugees, World Bank

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Former Peace Corps Volunteers Offer to Help New Refugees in US

October 23, 2016

by Tino Calabia

BERLIN — The former Tempelhof Airport here has quickly become Germany’s biggest center sheltering refugees in the last year. Decades earlier, the site had gained fame for the Luftbrücke — the air-bridge serving Allied transport planes in 1948-1949 to ferry tons of supplies everyday to beleaguered West Berliners isolated by the Soviet Union, which encircled …

Migration, WORLDVIEWS

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Isn’t It Time for the US to Ratify the UN Treaty on Disabilities?

December 18, 2013

by Tino Calabia

The seventh anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities at United Nations headquarters in New York was commemorated on Dec. 13. Since March 2007, when it opened for signature, the convention has been ratified by 138 countries. Modeled after the landmark United States Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), …

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Two Resources for Job Seekers in Foreign Affairs

May 30, 2013

by Tino Calabia

Graying retirees are spared the anxieties experienced by the 20- and 30-somethings of today who are trying to crack the job market. But late in April, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 jumped to record levels, United States employment rose at a stronger-than-expected rate. I breathed a sigh of relief, hoping …

UN Employment

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Try a More Balanced Approach to Iran, Report Advises

April 18, 2013

by Tino Calabia

WASHINGTON — If the term “track two” sounds like an announcement at Grand Central Terminal in New York, it has an altogether different meaning farther east at United Nations headquarters. Diplomats there suspect they’re hearing “track two” talks; that is, informal talks aimed at resolving problems, although the talks neither involve them nor any other …

Asia, Peace and Security

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WORLDVIEWS

Mourning a Diplomat Who Had the Right Stuff

October 22, 2012

by Tino Calabia

The United States House Homeland Security Committee chairman called for Susan Rice, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, to resign. A top-ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee derided “Benghazi-gate,” the name he uses in charging a cover-up of the facts surrounding the Sept. 11 deaths this year in Libya of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens …

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Aung San Suu Kyi, of Burma, Making No ‘Easy Promises’

September 24, 2012

by Tino Calabia

WASHINGTON — Though the national elections in the United States loom less than seven weeks away, partisan bickering was agreeably suspended for one day last week here, when the Burmese dissident, Aung San Suu Kyi, was honored by top Republicans and Democrats with the US Congressional Gold Medal. The award had originally been made …

Asia, Human Rights, WORLDVIEWS

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Tino Calabia

Rohingya Refugees Look to Washington and Find a Vacuum

Why Turkey’s Model Work Permits for Refugees Don’t Actually Work

A Poverty-Easing Plan to Help Displaced People and Their Host Countries

Former Peace Corps Volunteers Offer to Help New Refugees in US

Isn’t It Time for the US to Ratify the UN Treaty on Disabilities?

Two Resources for Job Seekers in Foreign Affairs

Try a More Balanced Approach to Iran, Report Advises

Mourning a Diplomat Who Had the Right Stuff

Aung San Suu Kyi, of Burma, Making No ‘Easy Promises’

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