Displaced and Refugees

(Beirut) – The United States government has deported at least 30 of a planned 1,400 people originally from Iraq back to their country, in some cases threatening long imprisonment if they don’t consent, Human Rights Watch said today. In all cases that Human Rights Watch is aware of, the deportees lack valid identity documents, putting […]

Jerusalem in Athens: Refugees, the Youth Left and the Crises of Nation and Capital

Loubna Qutami

In the heart of Athens Exarchia Square, a Palestinian refugee youth from Ein El-Hilwa refugee camp in Lebanon sits to tell me of the sobering reality offering refugee support services in Greek camps has taught him. By now, Exarchia has cleared of the international volunteers who come for the summer to offer “help” and of […]

Displaced and Refugees

World to 22 mn Refugees: Only 200K of You can be Helped

John Feffer

New York (Foreign Policy in Focus ) – Over 22.5 million people have been forced to flee their countries. Last year, less than 200,000 were resettled. It’s a famous story, though perhaps not famous enough. The 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, a German ocean liner, was recounted in a 1974 book and a […]

Displaced and Refugees

“Death Sentence:” Dems Slam Sessions’ Denial of Asylum to Gang, Abuse Victims

Paul Handley

Washington (AFP) – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Monday that victims of domestic and gang violence will no longer qualify for asylum, in an effort to stem a flow of illegal immigrant families from Central America. In a deciding opinion on a case of an unidentified woman from El Salvador who was raped and […]

Children

UN: ‘Nothing Normal’ about U.S. Detaining Immigrant Children

TeleSur

“Detention is never in the best interests of the child and always constitutes a child rights violation,” officials said. The United Nations has called on the United States to stop detaining irregular migrant families and separating children from their parents on its border with Mexico, saying that the acts broke the law. Several hundred children […]

Displaced and Refugees

Can America Heal the Psychological Wounds of our Syrian Refugees?

Arash Javanbakht

Detroit (The Conversation) – War in Syria and the refugee crisis have been the subject of a heated debate in United States politics, leading to a travel ban and drastic reduction in the number refugees to the U.S. this year. We occasionally hear about brutal deaths and starvation of civilians in Syria from the news, […]

Displaced and Refugees

100,000 Yemenis displaced by Saudi-led Coastal Offensive, with Millions on edge of Famine

AFP

Aden (AFP) – A Yemen government offensive backed by ground troops and warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition has displaced tens of thousands of people along the country’s western coast, Amnesty International said Thursday. The rights group warned “the worst could be yet to come” after surveying civilians who made the perilous escape from front line […]

Displaced and Refugees

Why is Israel Summarily Expelling Tens of Thousands of African Refugees?

Howard Adelman

This past November, Israel announced that it had arranged to relocate 38,000 Eritrean and Sudanese refugee claimants to an African nation — widely rumoured to be Rwanda and perhaps Uganda. The internment camp at Holo[t] would be closed. Israel claims that the vast majority are illegal migrants or, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls them, […]

Displaced and Refugees

Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen

contributors

By Helen Lackner | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – . . . [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was the brain behind the coalition originally intended to return to power [in Yemen] the transitional regime established after the 2011 popular uprisings, a regime which can roughly be described as intended to shift power from one […]