In 2018, Africa accounted for 70% of the world’s people displaced by armed conflict and human rights abuses.
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A young woman in Lviv, Ukraine, writes about fleeing Russian aggression not once, but twice, since 2014 and explains the fierce desire to stay in her home country – a desire shared by many.
Refugee camps should only be a temporary solution. They’re no place for ongoing health care.
The standoff between Abiy Ahmed and the armed forces in Tigray has already caused thousands to flee their homes.
The situation in Cabo Delgado is dire. The international community needs to act fast to contain it.
Displaced people are particularly at risk from zoonotic diseases transmitted between animals and humans.
Cameroon’s English speaking people suffer gross marginalisation and are treated as second-class citizens by the Francophone government.
Ethiopia’s internally displaced populations are a stain on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first term in office.
Building on our track record of support for refugee resettlement, Canada should stand up for those uprooted within their own countries and unable to reach our shores.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has had a mixed bag of success and failure.
Since 2000, 8.8 million Brazilians have been displaced by disaster, development and crime, new data shows. Now Venezuelan migrants are pouring into the country. Still, Brazil has no real refugee plan.
Since civil war broke out in the Central African Republic four years ago, citizens continue to live in fear. They say that peace will only come when the war criminals are brought to justice.
Patrice Lumumba had a vision for the DRC. He believed that a lasting peace could be achieved through good will, not rifles and bayonets. The great man’s vision now lies in tatters.
With the many interconnected conflicts within Syria continuing, and with routes to safety increasingly blocked, what can Syria’s 4.8m refugees expect in this ‘new’ year?
The humanitarian crisis in the Middle East is getting worse by the day. A survey of aid workers provides a glimpse into life on the ground, and clues to why the humanitarian sector is ailing.
The initiative to establish an African Humanitarian Agency is a welcome one. But political, technical and financial support will matter. This will require the AU to take a pragmatic approach. Can it?
Government strategies promoting economic growth through the development of the biodiverse Salween river basin should not be at the cost of human rights.
Few Colombians who have been displaced by violence voted on the peace deal from abroad. An expert in conflict resolution explains why their voices must be part of the peace process.
A young boy is strapped with explosives and sent to detonate himself and those around him at a school. An expert on terrorism explains how and why children become embroiled in militant conflicts.
The rise in the number of people fleeing Boko Haram terror calls for urgent amendments to Nigeria’s constitution to provide legal protection to the country’s millions of internally displaced citizens.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
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Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University
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Associate Professor in Global Security, RMIT University
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Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, UCL
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Associate Professor of Conflict Resolution, UMass Boston
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Executive director, Africa Institute of South Africa, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Communication and Middle East Studies, Georgia State University
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Senior Researcher, CGIAR System Organization
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Professor of Sociology, Elon University
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Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Lecturer in International Development, University of East London
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Associate Professor and Head of Humanitarian Research Program, Australian National University
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PhD candidate in Political Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg
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Henry J. Leir Chair in Global Migration, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa, University of Cape Town
