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- Sonah Lee-Lassiter
- • February 18, 2019
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After fleeing violence and unemployment in their home country for the relative stability of neighboring Iran, hundreds of thousands of undocumented Afghans are now returning home. The mass reverse migration is taking place just as the United States, eager…
- Categories: Asia, Geopolitics, Migration, Terrorism, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • November 6, 2018
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Working closely with Mexico, United Nations agencies are providing food and other necessities to thousands of migrants from Central America who are walking or riding in any vehicle they can find toward the United States. There, they are seeking…
- Categories: Migration, US Foreign Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • July 2, 2018
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The unexpected, decisive rejection of the Trump administration’s candidate to head the premier United Nations agency for resettling refugees and other migrants appears to be a warning. Which is that other nations are not prepared to indefinitely defer to…
- Categories: Geopolitics, Migration, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 21, 2018
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After a year of bombast and threats by Ambassador Nikki Haley and the ever-evolving Donald Trump administration, the tone appears to be turned down a few notches in the second year of the Trump presidency. But efforts to undermine…
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- Shazia Z. Rafi
- • September 18, 2015
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As a relentless remake of the Middle East and North Africa has been taking place, mass displacements of populations have also been occurring. And more chaos is ahead, says the United States Defense Intelligence chief, Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart,…
- Categories: Middle East, Migration, Refugees, UN Agencies
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- Yermi Brenner
- • May 20, 2014
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SICILY, Italy — Fabiana Giuliani is a legal associate for the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees, but in the last few months she has spent most of her time in ports. Based on the southern island of Sicily,…
- Categories: Africa, Human Trafficking, Libya, Migration
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 6, 2014
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A few years ago in Ethiopia, a survey conducted for the government in the capital, Addis Ababa, discovered that 88 percent of a growing number of homeless older people as well as two-thirds of those living at home did…
- Categories: Health and Population, UN Agencies
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