Back Home With Help and Hope
Thousands who fled their homes in the Taliban-led violence over the past three years have now returned to rebuild their lives, and their homes. These residents of the Federally Administered Tribal...
View ArticleAustralian Detention Centres Risk Violating Human Rights
Australia’s recent decision to move asylum seekers to offshore detention facilities has alarmed human rights organisations. “Re-opening offshore detention centres could result in human rights...
View ArticleClimate Change Hits Pacific Islands
Climate activist Wanita Limpus, from the low-lying island nation of Kiribati in the Central Pacific Ocean, says the outcome of the Rio+20 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in June was a serious...
View ArticleMigrants in Poland Find a Voice At Last
It took hunger strikes and a case like Layla Naimi’s to push authorities in Poland to amend laws dealing with irregular migrants. Authorities will not be obliged to send such migrants to detention...
View ArticleCold and Dusty But Safe
No other camp for Syrians match the size of Za’atari. Equal rows of tents marked with the UNHCR logo spread to the horizon, dotted with lanterns and water tanks. Only a handful of people remain in...
View ArticleA Million Hardships in Pakistan’s North
More than a million people displaced from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas by growing militancy and military operations are facing severe hardship after losing businesses and work. “We had a...
View ArticleSyrian Refugees Face Storms With Cardboard
Zuhur al-Khalaf is eight months pregnant and lives in a one-room shack in northern Lebanon with her husband and five children. The cloth walls and cardboard roof have become sodden and musty after...
View ArticleTuaregs and Arabs Not Ready to Return to Mali
Fatimata Wallet Haibala sits among a group of women and teenage girls under a tent, her handicapped boy on her lap. The scene could be a rural picture of a Tuareg gathering in the desert. But the...
View ArticleAt Home, and Not at Home
The influx of hundreds of thousands of war-weary refugees from Syria to Lebanon is putting an almost unbearable strain on many of the communities that have taken them into their homes. A domestic...
View ArticleRefugees of Libyan War Protest at World Social Forum
“We need a solution. The U.N. has created the problem, and they should do their work and fix it,” says Bright, a young Nigerian stuck in the Choucha refugee camp in Tunisia, a few kilometres from the...
View ArticleAsylum Seekers Housed Where Eagles Dare
Struggling to accommodate all its asylum seekers, Swiss authorities have turned to unused army quarters. Some of these lie on mountain passes, far away from inhabited areas. Last year, 28,631 persons...
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South Sudan Celebrates a Troubled First Birthday
Nyan Tuch in her temporary home in a camp outside of Aweil where she is living until the government provides her family with land. Credit: Jared Ferrie/IPSBy Jared FerrieJUBA, Jul 9 2012 (IPS) The...
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Pakistan Says Goodbye to Refugees Not Leaving
Most Afghan refugees would rather stay on in mud houses in Camp Jadeed in Karachi than return. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS.By Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Aug 3 2012 (IPS) Pakistan faces increased...
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Back Home With Help and Hope
Families displaced from their homes in Pakistan’s troubled northern regions returning home. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS.By Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Pakistan , Aug 10 2012 (IPS) Thousands who fled their...
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More Kids Pushed Into Labour in Lebanon
Aboudi, 12, spends his evenings selling flowers outside Beirut's bars. His parents are stuck in his war-torn hometown Aleppo in Syria. Credit: Sam Tarling/IPS.By Zak BrophyBEIRUT, Aug 7 2013 (IPS) With...
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Europe Failing Syrian Refugees
A member of the Free Syrian Army at the entrance to Sarmeen. Credit: Shelly Kittleson/IPS.By Ray SmithLUCERNE, Switzerland , Sep 12 2013 (IPS) Refugee rights organisations are demanding an EU-wide...
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Grief Veils Eid for Syrian Refugees
Palestinian camps in Lebanon are just some of the places Syrian refugees find shelter in. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS.By Rebecca MurraySIDON, Lebanon , Oct 16 2013 (IPS) This week the Islamic world...
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Refugees Eating Dogs to Beat Starvation
A resident in the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus prepares to slaughter a dog to feed his family as food supplies run out under siege. Credit: Mutawalli Abou Nasser/IPS.By Mutawalli Abou...
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Syrians Under Siege Now in Egypt
A Syrian refugee in Cairo: fleeing Syrians have little to look forward to here. Credit: Hisham Allam/IPS.By Hisham AllamCAIRO, Oct 28 2013 (IPS) Mahmoud Abu Yousef, 28, sits in one of the suburban...
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‘I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars’
This road through the Zaatari refugee camp has been named Champs Elysées. Arab men come scouting around here for virgins. Credit: Liny Mutsaers/IPS. By Annabell Van den BergheZAATARI CAMP, Jordan, Nov...
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