Displaced and Refugees

The United Nations has called on the United States to stop detaining irregular migrant families and separating children from their parents

Can America Heal the Psychological Wounds of our Syrian Refugees?

Arash Javanbakht

We can do a lot to protect refugee children (future American adults) against negative impact of trauma and depression

Displaced and Refugees

100,000 Yemenis displaced by Saudi-led Coastal Offensive, with Millions on edge of Famine

AFP

Amnesty International warns that “the worst could be yet to come”

Displaced and Refugees

Why is Israel Summarily Expelling Tens of Thousands of African Refugees?

Howard Adelman

Last November Israel announced that it had arranged to relocate 38,000 Eritrean and Sudanese refugee claimants to an African nation

Displaced and Refugees

Tens of Thousands Actually dead in Saudi War on Yemen

contributors

By Helen Lackner | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – . . . [Saudi Crown Prince] Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was the brain behind the coalition originally intended to return to power [in Yemen] the transitional regime established after the 2011 popular uprisings, a regime which can roughly be described as intended to shift power from one […]

Displaced and Refugees

Turkey: Mass Deportations of Syrians to dangerous Areas

contributors

Human Rights Watch | – – EU Should Raise Issue, Pledge Aid at Conference (Brussels) – Turkish security forces have routinely intercepted hundreds, and at times thousands, of asylum seekers at the Turkey-Syria border since at least December 2017 and summarily deported them to the war-ravaged Idlib governorate in Syria, Human Rights Watch said today. […]

Displaced and Refugees

Anger as Israel begins deportation of African Refugees

contributors

By Tanja R. Müller | (The Conversation) | – – Around 20,000 Israelis and African migrants took to the streets in Tel Aviv on February 24, protesting against a government policy of detaining and deporting African asylum seekers who refuse to leave the country. A few days earlier, a group of Eritrean asylum seekers held […]

Bashar al-Assad

The Age of Total War in Syria

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – One of the most distressing take-aways of the Syria War since 2011 is that the United Nations does not work and all the hopes of the framers of its charter in 1945 have been dashed. World War II was a total war that polished off some […]

Displaced and Refugees

Saudi Arabia’s Filthy Lucre & its War on Yemen’s Civilians

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By Daniel Martin Varisco | (MENA Tidningen) | – – “Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.” (Titus 1:11) Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged to provide over $1 billion to address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen that they have […]