refugees

In Line for Food at a Refugee Camp in Lesvos Greece 2016 FXB Photo by Hector Lucero Late afternoon Friday, January 27, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order changing US policies and procedures regarding immigration and refugees.…

Refugee Tent at Moria Camp, Lesvos, sent by refugee to Voice of America By Vasileia Digidiki and Jacqueline Bhabha Struggling to manage Europe’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent history, with hundreds of thousands of migrants in legal limbo in…

Rohingya in a New Delhi Refugee Camp,Courtesy of Syed Saad Mahmood By Arlan Fuller Over the past three months, the Myanmar military has led a violent campaign targeting the Rohingya people in Rakhine State and currently shows no signs of relenting.…

Members of The Lancet-American University of Beirut Commission on Syria: Health in Conflict, gathered in Beirut.Photo: Courtesy of American University of Beirut For immediate release: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 “Syria has become the mirror, in…

By Vasileia Digidiki Creative Commons photo of a square in Pedion tou Areos, does not imply that people shown are involved in transactional sex. Nine months after the historic agreement between the European Union and Turkey,[1] approximately 60,000…

Throughout the world, children flee peril in their place of origin, but often they exchange one set of dangers for another. A new report published today by Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights finds that protection for children on…

“The bitter truth is, this summit was called because we have been largely failing.”  By Libby Whitbeck This year the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) held its first-ever Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants.…

How Germany and Sweden responded to the unprecedented number of children seeking asylum during the current European refugee and migration crisis. By Shanoor Seervai When almost 1.3 million migrants crossed the Mediterranean last year seeking refuge…

by Krista Oehlke October 21, 2015. Jacqueline Bhabha yesterday launched this year’s child protection curriculum with a brown bag lunchtime talk entitled “Child Protection and Migration: From Crisis to Crisis.” Bhabha focused on some of the…