Refugees

September 12, 2019

Lawyers in the US and Mexico say the decision to temporarily allow a new Trump administration asylum ban to go into effect could overwhelm Mexico's asylum system and encourage asylum seekers to take more covert routes into the US.

How Dorian's destruction is hurting the Bahamas' most vulnerable

PRI's The World

September 12, 2019

The climate crisis is now, says a professor born in the Bahamas, who argued in an essay this week that the disaster exposes existing inequality and hurts the most vulnerable populations.

Displacement

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

PRI's The World

September 11, 2019

Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.

Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop

The Conversation

September 09, 2019

The UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda seemed straightforward at first. But as the mass killings began, the UN ordered its blue helmeted troops to evacuate foreigners — but not intervene to save the Tutsis from slaughter.

Refugees

Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia

GlobalPost

September 05, 2019

Mohamudul Hasson and Tobarik Huson, both Rohingya from Myanmar, met in Malaysia after taking arduous journeys to escape persecution and stagnation as stateless Muslim minorities. Neither Myanmar nor neighboring Bangladesh recognizes them as citizens.

Yazidi woes drag on after ISIS defeat as religious persecution worsens globally

PRI's The World

August 30, 2019

This month, Yazidis mark five years since ISIS overran northwestern Iraq, murdering an estimated 5,000 Yazidi men and boys who refused to convert to Islam, and enslaving some 7,000 women and girls, including some as young as nine.

Conflict

30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still matters

PRI's The World

August 22, 2019

The human chain paved the way to Baltic independence, and, on the eve of its 30th anniversary, offers inspiration for Hong Kong protesters.

Displacement

As fighting intensifies in Idlib, about 3 million civilians are at risk

PRI's The World

August 21, 2019

The United Nations is warning of a new humanitarian crisis as airstrikes intensity in Idlib, Syria.

Extremism

'It's inhumane': Hazara react after 63 killed in targeted ISIS attack

PRI's The World

August 19, 2019

A Hazara community member reflects on Saturday's ISIS attack that left 63 dead, as Afghanistan marks a subdued, 100th years of independence from Britain.

'We have suffered enough,' say families of the missing and detained in Syria

PRI's The World

August 16, 2019

UN figures say more than 100,000 people have so far been detained, abducted or gone missing — largely, but not only, at the hands of the Syrian government. Their families want answers.

Refugees

Supreme Court's asylum decision is a 'recipe for chaos,' experts say

How Dorian's destruction is hurting the Bahamas' most vulnerable

USC students work with refugees to engineer solutions for better camp life

Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop

Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia

Yazidi woes drag on after ISIS defeat as religious persecution worsens globally

30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still matters

As fighting intensifies in Idlib, about 3 million civilians are at risk

'It's inhumane': Hazara react after 63 killed in targeted ISIS attack

'We have suffered enough,' say families of the missing and detained in Syria

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