Refugees who have fled the carnage in Afghanistan are being deported in record numbers Kimberly Curtis June 23, 2017 This has been a particularly bloody "fighting season" in Afghanistan. Now that winter has ended and the opium poppy harvest is over, the annual summer “fighting season” is in full swing in Afghanistan. This ye...
It’s Not Just Syria. A Record Number of Refugees Are Fleeing from New Conflicts. Kimberly Curtis June 20, 2017 Today marks World Refugee Day. Once again, this past year was record breaking for refugees and the forcibly displaced, albeit all the wrong records. The number of forcibly displaced in the world hit a record h...
Nikki Haley Wants these Two Reforms at the UN Human Rights Council…(Or Else?) Mark Leon Goldberg June 6, 2017 US Ambassador the UN Nikki Haley gave a major speech in Geneva outlining the Trump administration's future participation in the Human Rights Council. After months of internal debate, she announced that the Unit...
This is What Political Science Teaches Us About the Killing of Journalists Mark Leon Goldberg May 25, 2017 We are nearly six months into the year and already nice journalists have been killed in 2017, including four in Mexico alone. That figure comes from Reporters Without Borders and is part of a larger data se...
WATCH: Rarely Seen Footage from the Conflict in the Central African Republic Mark Leon Goldberg May 17, 2017 Fighting has intensified in recent days un certain parts of the Central African Republic, including an apparent massacre of over 100 people in a mining town near the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo...
It’s Official: ALL US Health Assistance–from Measles to Malaria– is caught up in US abortion politics Mark Leon Goldberg May 16, 2017 One of Donald Trump's first acts as president was to re-instate the "Global Gag Rule." This is a rule that has been imposed by Republican presidents since the 1980s and stipulates that no US funding for global ...
With No One Watching, Burundi Slides Further into Repression Penelope Starr May 5, 2017 The release of Reporters Without Borders annual Press Freedom index this week coincided with a grim anniversary for Burundi, which now ranks as one of the least free countries for media in the world. Almost exa...
The US Border Has Suddenly Become More Hostile for Journalists Like Me Karen Coates April 26, 2017 One night several years ago in Myanmar, I returned to my hotel after dinner and found the lobby full of cops. They were there to get me. I’d been teaching creative nonfiction writing—aka journalism—under a gove...
“Climate Refugees,” Explained Kimberly Curtis April 24, 2017 What makes a "climate refugee?" There is no standard definition and no such a category of refugees currently exist under international law. But the fact is people who have been uprooted because of climate chang...
