Tag: Refugees

News Report: Displacement is going to increase by more than 6.8 million people in the coming two years by Danish Refugee Council

April 12, 2024

In a context of growing conflict, disregard for international humanitarian law (IHL) and diminishing funds to address the conflicts and their consequences, displacement crises are set to significantly increase. DRC’s new Global Displacement Forecast report ‘Foresight’ estimates that the total number of people displaced will increase by 3.7 million in 2024 and an additional 3.1 … More News Report: Displacement is going to increase by more than 6.8 million people in the coming two years by Danish Refugee Council

The Sobering Statistics of the ‘Displaced’ people by Dr. Habib Siddiqui

June 26, 2023

June 20 was observed as the International Refugees Day. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations program with the mandate to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people, and assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. According to the UNHCR, … More The Sobering Statistics of the ‘Displaced’ people by Dr. Habib Siddiqui

The Veiled Threat: Australia’s Campaign Against New Zealand Refugee Policy by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-11-25

May 11, 2022

Another twist in the farce over the stained treatment of refugees on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island has surfaced.  New Zealand has been insisting for some time that it is more than willing to welcome some 150 to its shores. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, much to the irritation of Australia’s Turnbull government, has been particularly … More The Veiled Threat: Australia’s Campaign Against New Zealand Refugee Policy by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-11-25

World Law to Protect Refugees and Migrants by Rene Wadlow 2017-09-19

May 4, 2022

On 19 September 2016, the UN General Assembly held a one-day Summit on «Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants»  and set a new agenda for responding to large movements of people crossing frontiers.  The UN resolution is called  The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants.  It has as an annex a plan of … More World Law to Protect Refugees and Migrants by Rene Wadlow 2017-09-19

Pope Francis View of the G-20’s “Distorted Vision of the World” by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-07-10

April 29, 2022

Pope Francis View of the G-20’s “Distorted Vision of the World”:A Veiled Reference to Steve Bannon’s Vision on Refugees? “The whole thing in Europe is all about immigration, it’s a global issue today—this kind of global Camp of the Saints…It’s not a migration, it’s really an invasion. It’s been almost a Camp of the Saints-type … More Pope Francis View of the G-20’s “Distorted Vision of the World” by Dr. Emanuel Paparella 2017-07-10

Dreams of Detention by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-06-14

March 20, 2022

Detention comes in various forms, and all have a basic premise: the removal of liberty of the subject, the presence of permanent control and surveillance, the utter reduction of rights to life to obligations to the state. The suggestion of internment of terror suspects by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson hints at a historical awareness … More Dreams of Detention by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2017-06-14

What’s Going Up In Smoke ? by Leah Sellers 2017-05-18

March 10, 2022

Can it be True ?  Are Dark Memory-laden Ovens being stoked in Syria just outside Syrian prisons ? Prisons concentrated with Human Souls Assad and his cohorts and cronies want to be rid of for one darkly pragmatic reason or another ? Are the Smoke and Ashes of Lost Souls being blown into Global Eyes … More What’s Going Up In Smoke ? by Leah Sellers 2017-05-18

Clearing the “Jungle”: The Calais Refugee Operation by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2016-10-28

February 16, 2022

“We don’t know yet where we are going, but it will obviously be better than the Jungle, which was made for animals, not humans.” Wahid, Afghan refugee, PRI, Oct 24, 2016 It grew out as an organic consequence of failure – a failure on the part of Europe’s authorities to come to some measure of … More Clearing the “Jungle”: The Calais Refugee Operation by Dr. Binoy Kampmark 2016-10-28