The Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) intercepted 23,358 asylum seekers crossing into...
ON MIGRATION | Canada sees new high in asylum seeker crossings from US
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ON MIGRATION | New model to enlist regular Americans to resettle refugees
Since the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Kabul last year, the Sponsor Circle Program for Afghans has helped over 600 Afghans restart their lives. The Biden administration is preparing to turn the experiment into a private-sponsorship program for refugees admitted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and is asking organizations [and individuals] to team up with it to launch a pilot program by the end of 2022.
ON MIGRATION | As numbers rise, the hardships of migration through Mexico multiply
Bureaucracy, corruption, violence, and US political pressure are all stalling the human flow.
ON AFGHANISTAN | Don’t forget Afghan refugees in Pakistan flood response
By building an inclusive disaster response, Pakistan’s government has the chance to finally do right by its large Afghan refugee population.
ON THE MEDIA | In Nicaragua, there are no more newspapers
Journalists are either in jail or in exile, as Daniel Ortega sets about destroying the country’s independent media. And the rest of Central America is following in line.
ON THE MEDIA, ON DEVELOPMENT | Humanitarian communication: a future that is more ethical, sensitive and inclusive
Language [and images are] part of a cycle that retains and reinforces historically rooted unequal power relations, which are often expressed and reinforced in colonialist, racist, sexist and other forms of oppressive practices.
ON AFGHANISTAN, ON DEVELOPMENT | Unfreeze Afghan assets or more hungry children may die
With international monitoring and more trust in Afghanistan’s central bank, t
ON HAITI, ON DEVELOPMENT | The international community must own its role in Haiti’s food crisis
It’s time for a different approach in Haiti – one that reckons with the enduring harms Global North policies have inflicted in the country.
ON AFGHANISTAN | Tajikistan ‘rounding up and deporting Afghan refugees’
UN refugee agency urges authorities to end forced deportations as families say they are too scared to leave their homes.
ON AFGHANISTAN | UN expert decries ‘systematic’ attacks on Afghan Shia groups
UN expert warns attacks against Hazaras, other Shia Muslims in Afghanistan bear ‘hallmarks of international crimes’.
House of Seven Gables hosted New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Screen&Discuss
The House of the Seven Gables, a colonial mansion turned non-profit museum in Salem Massachusetts, will host a New Immigrant and Refugee Visions Screen&Discuss event September 19 6-7pm, in-person.
Video Camera, Sound, and Editing Courses – Starting 10/20
Michael Sheridan is one of the best teachers one could hope to have. He has a genuine commitment to facilitating students’ ability to realize their vision, which is backed by a deep understanding of technology and technique. I had the pleasure of hiring Michael to teach over twenty years, and student reviews were always excellent.