Refugees

Nursing Fellow Burmese in Thailand Against Many Odds

• June 21, 2012

GENEVA — Dr. Cynthia Maung doesn’t care that much about the high-level Rio+20 United Nations conference on sustainability this week. And it doesn’t matter to her that the country she lives in, Thailand, is advancing a green agenda. Dr. Maung, a general practitioner, prefers to see action on the ground to help the refugee …

Asia, Human Rights, Refugees

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A Tenuous Life for Malian Refugees in the Desert

Joe Penney

• June 11, 2012

MBERA REFUGEE CAMP, Mauritania — One major fallout from the eruptions that began between Tuareg rebels in northern Mali and government troops last winter— spurred by NATO’s war in Libya, which sent thousands of Tuaregs back home to Mali with Libyan military weapons — was not only a coup d’état but also an influx …

Africa, Refugees

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A Transition in Sight for Mali

Joe Penney

• April 9, 2012

BAMAKO, Mali — The junta that upended the country here on March 22 has agreed to hand over power to Dioncounda Traore, the president of the National Assembly, in the next few days. Mali was set to hold a presidential election on April 29 before a junior military officer and his entourage ousted the …

Africa, Refugees

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Refugees Settling in the US Reaches 3 Million Mark

Barbara Crossette

• February 27, 2012

Since 1975, three million refugees have settled in the United States, the world’s largest recipient of distressed or endangered people seeking permanent new homes. The US is also the largest financial contributor to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, say new figures from the State Department and the UN refugee agency. Canada and the …

Refugees, US-UN Relations

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More Refugees Flee the Horn of Africa for Yemen

Barbara Crossette

• November 21, 2011

In the Horn of Africa, where drought and political violence have already cost thousands of lives this year, desperate people are turning to the sea to escape intolerable conditions all around them. They are landing by the thousands in the dangerous chaos of Yemen. In October alone, more than 12,000 people, mostly from Somalia …

Africa, Refugees

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Climate Change, Migrations and Few Welcome Mats

Dulcie Leimbach

• October 28, 2011

Climate change is being linked to such far-flung situations as rising seas that threaten to sink small island nations and drying up vast regions in Africa, which has spurred large upheavals of people, most recently in Somalia. This week, the complicated topic of environmental shifts and their effect on migration was tackled at a …