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- Dali ten Hove
- • August 1, 2021
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As the world inches closer to catastrophic global heating and vulnerable communities from Mali to Myanmar are already suffering the consequences, the United Nations Refugee Agency has been grappling with the growing role of climate change as a driver…
- Categories: Human Rights, Refugees, US Foreign Relations
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • January 27, 2020
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The United Nations turns 75 this year, all year long. As its purpose is being questioned by some of its biggest donor nations, including the United States, the UN has a new person to reshape its public image through its…
- Categories: Secretary-General, UN75
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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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- Opinion by Michael Curtin
- • October 23, 2017
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Oct. 24 is not just another day on the calendar. It is United Nations Day, an excellent time to take note of one of the accomplishments the world body has achieved in its 72-year history. The global institution has…
- Categories: Humanitarian Aid, Migration, OPINIONS, Refugees
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- Elizabeth Walsh
- • March 4, 2017
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“I represent just one voice among the millions who risk their lives every day in order to live a life of dignity,” writes Doaa Al Zamel, a young Syrian woman who survived a horrific journey across the Mediterranean. “Every…
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- Opinion by Bill Frelick
- • February 27, 2017
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Pressure is building on Afghan and Somali refugees to go home, even if they no longer have homes to return to. It is not surprising that this pressure is coming from governments that have been hosting huge numbers of…
- Categories: Human Rights, Migration, OPINIONS, Refugees
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- Opinion by Rolf C. Carriere
- • April 26, 2016
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ÉCHENEVEX, France — While psychological trauma affects perhaps as many as 500 million victims worldwide, and adversely impacts human and social development on a massive scale, its most devastating — but least suspected — effect may well be the…
- Categories: OPINIONS
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • January 27, 2016
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“Sport is the only area of human existence that has achieved universal law,” said Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee when he announced that elite athletes who were refugees could compete in the 2016 Olympics under…
- Categories: Education, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Refugees
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- Tom Woodcock
- • October 26, 2015
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While the regional coalition led by Saudi Arabia continues its aerial bombardment against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and as ground troops — from Bahrain, Sudan and United Arab Emirates — join the Saudis in the fray, the pain…
- Categories: Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Middle East, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • October 20, 2015
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BUFFALO — Inside this city’s West Side Bazaar, a business development incubator set up to assist refugees and immigrants here, colors dazzle and appetizing aromas waft around every corner. The bazaar is a packed mashup of a Middle Eastern…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • October 4, 2015
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With an astounding 12 million people in Syria displaced from their homes in a population that numbered about 23 million before its civil war began in full fledge in 2012, the questions that inevitably arise are: Why isn’t the…
- Categories: Middle East, Migration, Refugees
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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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- Alexander Brotman
- • October 10, 2014
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Far from the first point of entry into Europe for asylum seekers, Sweden has emerged as one of the most generous nations in the European Union, offering to take in high numbers of migrants when other nations have been…
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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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- Stephen Browne
- • August 7, 2013
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At the end of 2012, Britain withdrew its membership from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, or Unido, the most recent of several major donor countries (including the United States and Canada) to do so. Although it has had…
- Categories: Development, UN Agencies
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