Displaced and Refugees

Dr Ramzy Baroud RamzyBaroud ( Middle East Monitor ) – Remarks on 24 May by China’s Ambassador to the UN on the situation in Occupied Palestine were impeccable in terms of their consistency with international law. Compared with the position of the US, which perceives the UN and the Security Council in particular as a […]

Climate Crisis

Looking for Home in an Overheating World: If Emissions continue, Will We all be Migrants Someday?

Tomdispatch

By Jane Braxton Little ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Greenville, CA — Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of […]

Climate Crisis

Increasing Heat is already a Factor in human Migration – New Study

The Conversation

By Rita Issa, University of East Anglia | – It was getting hotter. Frank May got off his mat and padded over to look out the window. Umber stucco walls and tiles, the colour of the local clay… [he] took a deep breath. It reminded him of the air in a sauna. This, the coolest […]

Displaced and Refugees

Singing, trauma and the resilience of the Yazidis of northern Iraq: The power of cultural identity on psychological well-being

The Conversation

By Mylène Ratelle, University of Waterloo | – (The Conversation) – Behind each door and gate in Sinuni, Iraq, there is a different story of trauma and resilience. The Yazidi community is still coping with the trauma and mental health burden following the ISIS genocide of 2014, where thousands of men, women and children were […]

Climate Crisis

America’s Climate Refugees are Swelling, driven by Rising Seas, Wildfires and Extreme Heat

Sustainability Times

By Laureen Fagan ( Sustainability Times) – News of an accelerating sea level rise along the Gulf Coast of the United States has renewed attention on climate migration, and the degree to which people in the U.S. have begun to retreat from climate challenges due to flooding, wildfire and other impacts. The new study, […]

Displaced and Refugees

In Turkey, Women are feeling the worst Aftershocks of the earthquake Disaster and wondering where the Government is

The Conversation

By Willow Kreutzer, University of Iowa and Stephen Bagwell, University of Missouri-St. Louis | – When natural disasters strike, women and girls tend to experience disproportionate challenges and heightened risks. They are much more likely than men to experience sexual violence and health problems. Women and girls also face greater professional and educational setbacks. So […]

Climate Crisis

International Law doesn’t protect People fleeing environmental Disaster – But it Should

The Conversation

By Morgiane Noel, Trinity College Dublin | – Researchers have tried for decades to find a relevant legal status for people forced to flee their homes as a result of floods, droughts and storms – calamities which climate change promises to make more severe and commonplace – as well as appropriate laws which might ensure […]

Displaced and Refugees

Syrian Earthquake devastated an Area that was already a disaster Zone – and highlights the vital Role of local aid Groups

The Conversation

By Kimberly Howe, Tufts University | – (The Conversation) – Three weeks after the February 2023 earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, I stood amid the rubble in Jindires, a devastated Syrian village. An estimated 50,000 people had lost their lives in the two countries by that point, with the number of casualties still climbing. Around […]

Africa

Tunisia: Racist Violence Targets Black Migrants, Refugees

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch – (Tunis) – President Kais Saied’s recent attempt to mitigate the serious harm that a speech he made on February 21, 2023, caused Black African migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Tunisia does not go far enough, Human Rights Watch said today. Measures announced on March 5 fall far short of the […]