Food Ration Cuts Are Becoming the Norm as Aid Agencies Struggle to Keep Up Kimberly Curtis March 8, 2018Facing a massive funding shortfall, the World Food Program in January cut rations for Congolese refugees in Rwanda by 25%. Protests against those cuts turned deadly on February 27th when Rwandan police fired in...
Cape Town is Running Out of Water (Welcome to Our Future) Kimberly Curtis February 8, 2018Cape Town is bracing for an unfortunate distinction: becoming the first major city in the world to run out of water. Severe drought over the past three years coupled with population growth means the city and i...
What it Means that Hundreds of Thousands of Salvadorians Will Lose Their “Temporary Protective Status” in the US Kimberly Curtis January 10, 2018This week the Trump administration announced it is revoking the temporary status held by hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, setting a deadline of 2019 for their deportation. The move highlights yet another g...
Female Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Are Suffering the Consequences of Trump’s Decision to Defund a Key UN Agency Kimberly Curtis November 22, 2017As thousands of Rohingya continue to flee Myanmar in the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in the world, the focus of aid groups is shifting to the conditions facing refugees in the crowded camps of Cox’s Baz...
The Kenya Election Crisis, Explained Kimberly Curtis November 8, 2017Last week Kenyan election officials announced that President Uhuru Kenyatta won re-election in a landslide vote. But rather than marking an ending to a particularly tumultuous chapter in Kenya’s electoral histo...
New Evidence Suggests that What’s Happening in Myanmar is no longer a “potential” genocide. It’s the real thing Kimberly Curtis October 17, 2017A recent report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) details the brutal treatment of the Rohingya by the Myanmar military and armed gangs. More than half a million Rohingya have fle...
The World is Sidestepping the International Criminal Court to “Investigate” War Crimes in Yemen and Iraq? Kimberly Curtis October 11, 2017Yemen and ISIS's crimes in Iraq are two of the most dire human rights situations in the world right now. There is plenty of evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and under normal circumstances the...
This is How a Mudslide Can Kill So Many People in Sierra Leone Kimberly Curtis August 15, 2017Rainy season is currently upon Sierra Leone but this year the rains brought more than the country can handle. Heavy rains over the weekend around the capitol Freetown resulted in flash flooding and several maj...
Elections in Kenya Have Everyone Worrying About the Prospects of Violence Kimberly Curtis August 7, 2017Last week, a top election official in Kenya went missing. Days later, his tortured and murdered body was discovered. Chris Msando was the IT manager for the country's independent election commission in charge o...
