The United Nations Security Council has approved the selection of António Guterres of Portugal as the next UN Secretary General. A formal vote will take place Friday in Geneva. The nomination was confirmed at UN headquarters on Thursday, and praised by Russian, Indian and European leaders. Guterres is expected to…
U.S. President Barack Obama hosted his Leaders’ Summit on Refugees Tuesday, following a U.N. General Assembly on Monday that resulted in adoption of the New York Declaration on refugees and migrants. Obama’s proposal to increase to 110,000 the number of refugees welcomed to the U.S. next year, from countries across…
World leaders at the U.N. General Assembly in New York have adopted a historic declaration aimed at coordinating a global response to a tide of refugees, migrants and the internally displaced that is unprecedented in the modern era. The measure was approved Monday during the Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and…
Africa’s Refugees in Europe face major eviction from refugee settlement camp the Jungle of Calais, France. “If I think about it, I will lose my mind” Khaled (real name withheld for security reasons) says, standing at the top of a sand hill, looking over the sea of blue, black, white…
Luisa is a postgraduate student from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.
The latest news to come out of the world’s newest state is the the use of child soldiers in the civil war reported Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday. Two years of violence and multiple attempts at peace negotiations have brought the state nowhere except to a peace deal in writing…
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have launched food vouchers for Congolese Refugees in the Central Africa Republic (CAR). WFP reported that it is meant to help restore a sense of normality to the lives of the refugees. Alongside the food voucher…
Since 2015 started, an estimated 3,000 people have already perished trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. These people are a mix of economic and political migrants looking forward to reach Europe in search of a better life, or even just a refuge from the uncertainty brought about their countries’ political…