Establish defensible spaces around shelters. After a series of fires in camps in 2018, the shelter cluster in Palestine promoted the clearing of dry vegetation, waste, and debris from shelter areas.
Carstensen, an award-winning reporter for The World and Foreign Policy, was there that day: "It was the worst day in a series of terrible days. The event overwhelmed the island and the locals," says ...
TUNIS, April 3. /TASS/. Clashes between security forces of Syria’s new government and armed supporters of former President Bashar Assad broke out in the province of Aleppo, the country’s Al-Ikhbaria ...
In commemoration of the 2018 World Day of Social Justice and its annual theme "Workers on the Move: the Quest for Social Justice", the Chairman of the Geneva Centre for Human Righ ...
Nonprofits help refugees pay for rent and groceries, land jobs, sign up for medical benefits and enroll in school. The end of federal funding could mean these services disappear.
Author Jeanne Carstensen details a deadly shipwreck she witnessed through accounts from survivors and rescuers alike.
The year 2015 marked the peak of Europe’s refugee crisis. Over a million people arrived on the continent’s shores, trying to flee conflicts in home countries like Syria and Afghanistan — though they ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, "Greek Tragedy," about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015.
Without adequate resources, an estimated 12.8 million displaced people, including 6.3 million children, could be left without life-saving health interventions in 2025, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency ...
For half a century, America has been a home for people fleeing persecution, for refugees like me, writes. But the truth is ...
Majuna Khatun sat cradling her six-month-old baby at a rehabilitation centre for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, worried her ...
With her tiny studio tucked in the crowded lanes of the sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in south-eastern Bangladesh, Tanya is ...