Posted on March 19, 2018. Tags: Africa, African Conflict, Democracy, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Elections, Human Rights, Humanitarian, Internally Displaced Persons, Refugee, Refugee Camps, Refugees, war
The UN Under-Sectretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Mark Lowcock, visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) this week for the first time. Following meetings with internally displaced persons, Lowcock underscored that the DRC is the site of one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in the world today. A year after his term ended, Congolese […]
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Posted in Africa, Conflict, Refugees, UN, World
Posted on March 10, 2016. Tags: Advocacy, Architecture, children, Displaced Peoples, Homeless, Human Rights, IKEA, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Lebanon, Middle East, RE:BUILD, Refugee Camps, Refugees, Shelter, Syria, UN, Urban Planning, Winter, World
I take my home for granted. There, I said it. Chances are you do, too, if your conception of home – like mine – does not include worrying about the daily dangers of a civil war playing out on your doorstep; the mortar shelling that has left your family homeless; or the stability of […]
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Posted in Conflict, Humanitarian Intervention, Iraq, Middle East, Refugees, Security Issues, Syria, World
Posted on October 2, 2016. Tags: Africa, Kenya, Refugee, Refugee Camps
Pegida leader Lutz Bachmann, in a incredibly ironic twist on the idea of poacher turned gamekeeper, has been forced to seek refuge on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands because he and his wife were being “persecuted” in their native Dresden. Bachmann, of course, is the far right leader of the Patriotic […]
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