Saleyha Ahsan on the grassroots NGOs providing humanitarian care in Syria, despite lack of support from major development agencies.
Filed in: Conflict Development Development (Aid) NGOs Refugees Syria United Kingdom
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Saleyha Ahsan on the grassroots NGOs providing humanitarian care in Syria, despite lack of support from major development agencies.
Filed in: Conflict Development Development (Aid) NGOs Refugees Syria United Kingdom
Georges Alexandre has made an epic journey from Tunisia to Italy highlighting the risks faced by migrants. Tony Garner meets him.
Filed in: Belgium European Union Migration Refugees Tunisia
The shocking reality of Britain’s treatment of asylum-seekers has hit home for Amy Hall as her friend’s family faces being sent back to Egypt.
Filed in: Refugees United Kingdom
Is a Western approach the best way to engage with the mental health issues of other cultures? Nick Harvey visits Burmese refugees in Thailand to find out.
Filed in: Burma Mental Health Refugees Thailand
Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod report on the ongoing nightmare for 81 asylum seekers.
Filed in: Human Rights Refugees Somalia Ukraine
Nick Harvey and Julien Tremblin look at the plight of Tuareg refugees caught in the crossfire of a conflict that’s as devastating as it is complex.
Filed in: Algeria Burkina Faso Conflict Hunger Mali Mauritania Migration Niger Refugees
Iraq is planning to close the camp at the end of 2011 – but the fate of its inhabitants is far from secure.
Filed in: Human Rights Iran Iraq Refugees
A migrant is up to five times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in the UK than a white British person. On World Mental Health Day, Nick Harvey argues that racial discrimination is to blame.
Filed in: Equality Human Rights Migration Refugees Society
Even the young are not exempt: a Costa Rican schoolgirl recalls the day Canadian immigration officers arrested her.
Filed in: Refugees
John ‘Bosco’ Nyombiwas removed from Britain to months of fear and persecution as a gay man in Uganda. Eventually, a British judge ruled his removal illegal and ordered that he be brought back. He tells Dinyar Godrej about his journey.
Filed in: Gay Rights Migration Refugees Uganda United Kingdom
Two survivors from Karen state, where the Burmese military has been laying villages to waste, tell their stories.
Anti-Muslim fervour is rife – yet is being ignored by the authorities, says Lewis Garland.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
‘The Wicked Witch is dead’ but although he’s celebrating, Alan Hughes urges us to fight on against everything she stood for.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.