While the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit ended with net commitments to double spending on weapons and to increase by eight-fold the number of troops in Europe, the total of hungry people worldwide now marks an unprecedented record.
Afghans you have generously helped continue to need assistance. None of the assistance we have been able to provide would have been possible without your generous support. I hope that I can continue to count on your generosity as we continue to help our Afghan colleagues reach safety and rebuild their lives.
“The eye sees but the ear imagines.” This course will explore everything that filmmaker Robert Bresson meant with that famous statement. We will learn what it takes to record moving images and sounds that tell engaging stories and stimulate the imagination.
An internal United Nations report details escalating Taliban violations of human rights—and little U.N. leverage.
In the 10 months since the Taliban retook the country … the country has gone backward at vertiginous speed. The Taliban have reversed most of the social, economic, and political advances made in the 20 years of the Afghan Republic.
Afghan Voices is a new publication from The Afghan Digest that features Afghans telling their own stories in their own words. First up: A former professor and activist’s experience living in hiding in Kabul.
How young people’s news habits and attitudes have changed amid rising concerns about news distrust and news avoidance, increasing public attention to social issues such as climate change and social justice, and the growth of newer platforms such as TikTok and Telegram.
“We’ve been here before. We know what acting slowly does,” said Jeremy Taylor of the Norwegian Refugee Council about the unprecedented drought that’s pushing the Horn of Africa to the brink of famine.
How local Ukrainian ‘Suspilne’ (Public Broadcasting) is bringing trusted information to audiences in wartime.
$44,375 dollars spent on legal and living expenses for Afghans. We need your continued generous support for the Fund for Afghan Evacuation and Resettlement as well as for our new online training program in documentary filmmaking.
The Supreme Court barred a lawsuit against a U.S. Border Patrol agent for entering the property of a U.S. citizen without a warrant and assaulting him.
The Boston asylum office approved 15.5% of cases between 2015 and 2020, the nations second lowest rate.
The Maine organizations argued in their report that the Boston office is “dominated by a culture of suspicion and distrust toward asylum seekers.”
They said they found evidence of national origin and language bias, as non-English speakers and those hailing from African and the Middle Eastern nations were less likely to be granted asylum.
Poland is rushing to build a border wall and taking a harder line against those helping asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa while welcoming Ukrainians.