Refugees

10 US immigration issues to watch in 2020

January 03, 2020

Last year, the Trump administration rolled out several policies that restricted access to asylum, as well as employment-based and family-based immigration pathways. With a presidential election on the horizon, 2020 could bring even more restrictions. Here's what we're watching.

Media

Exiled journalists in Germany find 'hope' with a magazine that speaks their language

The World

January 02, 2020

When journalists flee their home countries, they lose their two most important tools: their native reporting language and their professional networks. Amal magazine, staffed by exiled journalists in Germany, is trying to change that.

Conflict

Idlib in northwest Syria is under attack from Russian and Syrian jets. Here’s what one resident told us.

The World

December 25, 2019

Russian and Syrian forces have intensified aerial attacks on villages in southern Idlib, a province in northwest Syria. One local English teacher shares his experience of the attacks with The World.

Protest

Rage against India’s citizenship law rooted in complex history of nation-building

The World

December 20, 2019

The Citizenship Amendment Act struck a nerve in India, where secular freedoms, pluralistic principles and Indigenous rights enshrined in the constitution have eroded in recent years.

Education

This school at a refugee camp in Lesbos is a safe haven for children

The World

December 17, 2019

Journalist Zekria Farzad, a refugee from Afghanistan, established a school for children after his shock at the lack of learning opportunities at Moria Camp, the largest refugee camp in Europe.

Refugees

How the US immigration system nearly tore this LGBTQ couple apart

The World

December 16, 2019

Without a legal document to "prove" their relationship, this LGBTQ couple from Honduras were separated when they applied for asylum in the US. But gay marriage is illegal in Honduras — and they were fleeing persecution on the basis of sexual orientation.

Justice

Gambian minister brought Myanmar to The Hague ‘in the name of humanity’

The World

December 12, 2019

The small West African country has its own long history of human rights abuses. The Gambia's Justice Minister says those experiences — along with memories of the world's silence on the Rwandan genocide — inspired The Gambia to bring a case against Myanmar to the International Court of Justice.

Immigration

Under Trump, immigrants face increasingly long and complicated road to citizenship

The World

December 06, 2019

Applicants are experiencing more vetting, a proposed spike in the application fee and prolonged processing times — waits that could keep thousands of would-be US citizens from voting in the 2020 general election.

Health & Medicine

Invisible ‘superbug’ could be more deadly than bombs in Middle East war zones

The World

December 04, 2019

The “superbug” bacteria often strike at much higher rates in the Middle East, according to Doctors Without Borders. The bacteria attack invisibly and without warning in the mangled limbs, bullet holes and other wounds of civilians and fighters in war zones.

This Venezuelan newspaper editor is fighting to keep publishing — from Spain

The World

November 27, 2019

More than four million Venezuelans have fled their country’s economic and political crisis in the last five years, most to neighboring nations such as Colombia. But some, including newspaper editor Miguel Henrique Otero, have regrouped in the country’s former colonial power across the Atlantic.

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