This meeting at the UN is President Obama’s powerful counterpoint to rising...
This is Barack Obama’s last UN General Assembly, and it comes amid the worst refugee crisis since the advent of the United Nations 71 years ago. There are some 65 million people forcibly displaced...
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This will not be the end of “The Jungle”
This week France started the long-awaited shutdown of the notorious Jungle refugee camp outside the city of Calais. Billed as a humanitarian measure, the eviction of nearly 7,000 refugees and asylum...
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11 Stories that Will Drive the Global Agenda in 2017
These are the trends, events, elections and happenings that will drive the global conversation in 2017. Welcome to our annual year-in preview listicle for the discerning global set! 1) With President...
View ArticleRefugees in Limbo with Trump’s Executive Order
More than a week after President Trump turned airports into a battleground by signing an Executive Order aimed to drastically curtailing immigration into the US, the fallout continues. A nationwide...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Inside the World’s Largest Humanitarian Relief Depot
UN Dispatch recently visited a vast complex on the outskirts of Dubai that stores humanitarian relief items for dispatch anywhere in the world. When disaster strikes, this places snaps into action....
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It’s Not Just Syria. A Record Number of Refugees Are Fleeing from New Conflicts.
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...
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The Supreme Court Just Blocked Vetted Refugees from Starting a New Life in...
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that President Trump’s “travel ban” can still go into effect for foreigners who lack a “bona fide relationship” with someone in the United States. Unless they can...
View ArticleA UN Official (Correctly) Calls Trump’s New Travel Ban “Collective Punishment”
New travel restrictions imposed by the United States hurts ordinary people for one reason only: their nationality. Jan Egeland is the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the world’s largest...
View Article9 Stories that will Drive the Global Agenda in 2018
From potential nuclear armageddon to a new global compact on migration, and much in between– UN Dispatch presents our annual year-in-preview of key stories and trends to watch in 2018 Will the...
View ArticleThis Video of a Refugee Boy With a Golden Voice Is Going Viral
Sleman is a seven year old Kurdish boy, stranded in a refugee camp in Greece. He lives in a converted shipping container with 15 other people, including his family. This video of young Sleman singing a...
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