As a world community we have agreed that everyone has a right to a home, (article 25 of the UNDHR makes this clear), however, like…
Refugees of the Syrian civil war
- When a few Latins have small casual business meetings they often meet up in the local greasy spoon or McDonalds. However, when a first-world…
Turkey is taking advantage of neighbors’ crises to loot resources from them, and the government’s ‘neo-Ottomanism’ policy has led to the brink of civil war,…
-Thinking of exploring or travelling long-term through Latin America? If you’re moving around, how can you get your snail- mail and packages from friends, family…
-Today we discuss a very special place called the Lake Atitlan district in Guatemala. No one who stays there more than a few days is…
As masses of Syrian refugees continue to flood Europe, paranoia is running high.Hungary built a fence designed to repel the newcomers, and a transnational brawl has…
Human rights violations committed by ISIS are condemned the world over – rightly so – whereas those committed by the US-led coalition fighting ISIS are…
United Kingdom — The Icelandic government is reconsidering its national refugee quota after a social media campaign resulted in over 11,000 Icelanders offering up a room…
As wars and persecution escalate worldwide, one out of every 122 people on the planet is a refugee, seeking asylum, or internally displaced, the Office…
The global refugee crisis is more dire than at any point since the end of the Second World War, according to a report released yesterday by Amnesty…
Whenever a new poem by Mahmoud Darwish was published in al-Quds newspaper, I rushed over to Abu Aymen’s newsstand that was located in the refugee…