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Why Australia is Accepting so Few Syrian Refugees
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...
View ArticleMajor Aid Groups Call on USA to Admit 100,000 Refugees
The big guns of the humanitarian world are sharply rebuking the US plan to resettle just 10,000 Syrians. “In unusually firm remarks, senior officials from six humanitarian organizations criticized as...
View ArticleEpisode 82: Arwa Damon
Arwa Damon is a senior international correspondent for CNN. Since joining CNN during the Iraq war, she’s covered important stories in the Middle East and throughout the world. Most recently, she...
View Article5 Myths European Leaders are Spreading about Refugees in Order to Scare People
With refugees arriving en masse to Europe, not all leaders are proving themselves to be like Angela “Merkel the Bold” Merkel, who powerfully declared “if we have to apologize for showing a friendly...
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5 Big Stories that Will Drive the Agenda During UN Week
UN Week is nearly here! From the Pope, to Putin, to Peacekeeping, here are the big stories that will drive the diplomatic agenda in Turtle Bay. 1) The “Global Goals” UN Week kicks off on a high note on...
View ArticleThis Greek Mother is Helping to Save Refugees as they Come to Shore (Video)
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...
View ArticleCan the Syrian Peace Talks Succeed?
John Kerry, Sergei Lavrov and representatives from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey meet in Vienna this week to discuss the Syria conflict. These talks were largely spurred by Russia, which one...
View ArticleThe Four “Best” Countries for Refugee Resettlement
The current refugee crisis arising from civil upheaval in the Middle East and Africa has caused over 4.1 million people to flee Syria alone since 2011. While the majority of asylum seekers in the...
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These Syrians Are Saving The Historical Memory of Their Beloved City of Aleppo
Google ‘Aleppo’ and you will read about an ancient city lying at the end of the Silk Road trade route that brought goods and people across the world for over a millennia. Aleppines have looked at the...
View ArticleStuck in the Calais “Jungle”
With all the focus on the current refugee crisis in Europe, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that refugees have been coming to Europe from Africa and the Middle East for years. The experience of...
View ArticleI Was A Refugee From the Middle East and America Saved Me
I love America. I love America because it afforded me the opportunity to start a new life when my old life fell apart in a torrent of bombs and bullets. I’m the son of a Lebanese father and an American...
View ArticleSyria Diplomacy After the Paris Attacks: Is a Dayton-Style Peace Accord in...
Could the horrible attack in Paris might provide the kind of exogenous shock to the international system that could unstick international diplomacy on Syria? After a key meeting in Vienna of the USA,...
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Scotland Welcomes Syrian Refugees
Last Tuesday the Scottish public woke up to a message on the front page of The National — ‘To the first refugees fleeing war-torn Syria who will at arrive at Glasgow Airport today, we’d just like to...
View ArticleThis 16-Year-Old Afghan Boy Fled To Europe, But Experienced Horror on the Way...
This teenage boy was an Afghan refugee in Iran. The chances of being accepted into Iran, being permitted to work and gain an education were extremely dim. “Even if we stay 100 more years, we would have...
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5 Under-the-Radar Stories that Will Drive the Global Agenda in 2016
It may not make the front page of the New York Times, but behind-the-scenes these events, trends, and circumstances are sure to influence policy makers around the globe in 2016. The Race to Replace Ban...
View ArticleA “Refugee Convention” for the 21st Century
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...
View ArticleWhat it’s like to be smuggled out of Afghanistan in a car trunk (Video)
This is an intense video from UNICEF, shot in part by young teenagers as they were fleeing the Taliban. These children fled for their lives, and risked their lives as they fled through Pakistan, Iran,...
View ArticleCan Gordon Brown Save a Generation of Syrian Children?
Gordon Brown’s impact on British politics was fairly limited. He served as UK Prime Minister for just three years, from 2007 to 2010, and between two giants of contemporary British politics: Tony Blair...
View ArticleThe World is Ever Shrinking for Syrians. And Not Just for Refugees.
Imagine that you live in Britain. Your brother lives in another country. Your sister and her children live in a third country. Your parents never moved – they are in the city you grew up in. You...
View ArticleThe Syria Humanitarian Crisis Enters a New Phase
The United Kingdom plays host to a major conference this week intended to raise money and political support for the Syrian humanitarian disaster. There are now over 4.6 million Syrian refugees who...
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