refugees

The paradise paradox: Maldives, a sinking country?38
- Environment and Energy, Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 24/03/2019
Maldives is now the poster-child for the consequences of climate change. Global warming will almost certainly lead to the demise of these islands which are predicted to submerge in thirty years’ time. Disappearing into the rising sea, it will become the first country having to relocate all its population as refugees due to global climate change.
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The invisible people 0
- Human Rights and Migration
- 04/12/2018
Usually when the question of how welcoming a country’s attitude towards refugees is raised, people look at the relation between proportion of accepted and rejected asylum seekers. But the destiny of those rejected is rarely featured in the mass media. What happens to them?
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Europe Grapples with Child Marriage 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 29/12/2016
Amid the substantial increase in child marriage as a negative coping strategy to the humanitarian crisis in Syria, European nations are scrambling to find sustainable response to the influx of child brides. Recent cases involving de-facto or de-jure recognition of child marriage in Member States that ban such unions have not only triggered concern on the lack of protective measures for child brides, but also demonstrated that addressing child marriage is not at all a straightforward endeavor.
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Multiculturalism and migration: the need to acknowledge cultural difference 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 06/06/2016
Recently, the satirical French weekly paper Charlie Hebdo, a publication which became well-known internationally due to the horrific event of the mass shooting of its staff by two French gunmen of Algerian descent in January 2015, has once again hit the headlines around the world, this time not as a victim, but as the perpetrator of a different crime: intolerance towards the Muslim community in France.
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Filling the gaps: Contribution of CSOs in the management of refugee affairs in Eastern Africa 0
- Human Rights and Migration, Op-ed
- 29/01/2016
African states have performed dual roles producing refugees while offering asylum to others. However the economic status of many receiving countries is too low to support provision of adequate basic services to their own citizenry and refugees are perceived as an extra burden. Civil society organizations have therefore taken on provision of vital services to fill this gap, complementing the work of UNHCR, the body mandated to safeguard and protect the rights of refugees.
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REPORT: The dark reality of Dunkirk’s refugee camp 0
- Analysis, Human Rights and Migration
- 26/01/2016
Refugees in Dunkirk are denied even the most basic of human necessities, whilst aid agencies face a seemingly futile battle to keep their heads above the water.
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