The European Union and Turkey agreed to a controversial deal late last week aimed at stemming the movement of refugees into Europe. The deal, much maligned by the UN and human rights groups, would essentially expel any new arrivals from...
Marcy Hersh recently returned from a research trip to the Balkans, where she followed refugee women and girls as they made their way through Europe. Marcy is a senior advocacy officer with the Women’s Refugee Commission, and we kick off...
The recent attacks in Paris, heightened security alerts, and arrests over potential terrorist New Year’s Eve plots in Brussels and Istanbul have once again brought the global refugee crisis to the forefront of the political debate in Europe and the...
After Syrians and Afghans, the largest nationality of people who are fleeing as refugees to Europe are Eritreans. And the vast majority of Eritreans who are fleeing to Europe are young people between the ages of 18 and 24 who...
This is a pretty intense video of boatloads of refugees, many of them children, being greeted by volunteers as they land on the Greek island of Lesvos. The video, from UNICEF, profiles one of the volunteers, who is herself a...
As Europe struggles to find solutions to the ongoing Mediterranean refugee crisis, countries further afield are also struggling with their responses. Across the Atlantic, the US and Canada have both offered settlement plans for Syrian refugees while across the Indian...
Canada’s role in the Syrian refugee crisis was thrown into sharp relief last week, when the now sadly famous photo of 3 year old Aylan Kurdi, lifeless on a Turkish beach, grabbed the world’s attention. As the story unraveled, it became...
There are more refugees in the world today than at any other time since World War Two. But the total number of refugees around the world that are admitted for resettlement to the USA is near an all time...
Can one horrible photo change refugee policies around the world? It would appear so. In just two days, the photo of young Aylan al-Kurdi has spread virally via Facebook and Twitter. But unlike so many other social media phenomenon, this one...