refugees

Britain Sets a Precedent That Worries the UN Refugee Agency

• June 27, 2022

Britain’s five-year asylum partnership arrangement with Rwanda is showing the rest of Europe how countries can possibly lock refugees out of their borders. And Filippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, is worried about this precedent. In the wake of the refugee crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in which five …

Africa, Human Rights, Migration, Refugees

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Where Refugee Scholars, Artists and Activists Find Safety and Thrive

Barbara Crossette

• November 25, 2018

Ahmad Sadiddin was an agronomist in a region that history books call the Fertile Crescent, an arc around the eastern Mediterranean where settled farming began in ancient times. Iraq and Syria were once part of that productive land before it was torn apart by the horrors of dictatorship, civil wars and the reductionism and …

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TAKE A LOOK

As Refugees Await Their Futures, NGOs Offer New Ways to Help Them Prepare

Barbara Crossette

• June 22, 2018

As the school year ends in many countries and children turn with joy to vacation time ahead, millions of other school-age children will have nothing to look forward to but more long days in overcrowded refugee camps. The situation gets worse as they grow into adulthood. Recent studies show that, thanks to United Nations …

Migration, Refugees, Take a Look

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GEOPOLITICS

David Miliband on Our Duty to the Strangers in Our Midst: Refugees

Barbara Crossette

• December 19, 2017

David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, has been president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee since 2013, overseeing both the agency’s humanitarian relief operations and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in several American cities. The son of European refugees from Nazi Germany, he just published his first book, “Rescue: Refugees and …