Mayotte: ‘Asylum in France for less than $1,000’ This blog is written by guest author, Peter Bouckaert, who is the acting director of the Global Observatory on Human Rights at Sea, a Barcelona-based...
CHRISTELLE CAZABAT Today, representatives from governments around the world are gathered in New York City to review progress they made toward universal education since 2015. The High Level Political...
At the end of 2018, over 17 million children were internally displaced by conflict or violence, and millions more by disasters or other causes. Within a global context of increasing urbanisation,...
The exact number of children living in internal displacement worldwide is unknown, but estimated at over 17 million worldwide as a result of conflict and violence, with millions more as a result of...
Schâdi Sémnani Djibouti: ‘I don’t even return to Yemen in my dreams’ Yemeni refugees in Djibouti have no illusions about the current situation in their country. At best, their home towns and cities...
ELIZABETH J. RUSHING Kos, Greece: ‘There are no bombs here, but we are dying every minute’ Kos is a small Greek island just off the coast of Turkey, its shores easily visible from the tranquil...
Elizabeth J. Rushing As Yemen grinds into a fifth year of war and its standing as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, those displaced are some of the country's most vulnerable people, and the most...
Stuck in the mud: Urban displacement and tenure security in Kabul’s informal settlements This post is authored by Anna Hirsch-Holland and based on the findings of a study by Mohammad Abdoh and Anna...
Internal displacement can affect the lives of people forced to leave their home because of conflict, violence, climate change or disasters, in many ways. Their housing, access to infrastructure and...
Exceptional floods “They asked us to evacuate. But nobody said where to evacuate to,” one of the hundreds of thousands of people impacted by the massive flash floods that have swept through Iran...