Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the further cuts to an already scaled-back program reflected a “daunting operational reality.” Source: NYT,...
I wrote about Chinese oppression in a South African paper. Hours later, they canceled my column. Foreign Policy, Opinion, BY AZAD ESSA | SEPTEMBER...
When Myanmar’s government defends the harsh sentence given to two courageous reporters who exposed mass murder, it breaks a fundamental promise of...
Francis Anwana, 48, was born in Nigeria and moved to the U.S. when he was 13 to attend a school for the deaf. Anwana lives in Detroit at an adult...
By IPS World Desk, Migrants as Messengers is a peer-to-peer messaging campaign by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where returning...
Trump slashes refugee resettlement, other countries don’t raise quotas Some 50,000 to 60,000 people fleeing war and persecution will start a new...
Advocates made exaggerated claims that privatization would reduce governments’ fiscal problems while ensuring more efficient, productive and...
Instead of just evacuating and repatriating migrants, Libyans ask, what about preventing their arrival in the first place? Source: At Libya’s...
By Henok Fente Just a few months ago, Ethiopia was one of the countries with the highest number of imprisoned and exiled journalists. Now, a new...
From Bangladesh’s vast camps to Myanmar’s prisons, volunteer sleuths search for clues on the missing, the imprisoned, and the dead Source: How do...
The wives of two Reuters journalists found guilty of violating Myanmar’s official secrets act and jailed for seven years have publicly lamented Aung...
With over 25,000 dead and 700,000 fleeing, the conflict in Myanmar is reaching a new wave of crimes against the Rohingya Muslims. The U.N. recently...