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Sharman Stone Of the nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees that have crossed into Bangladesh since August 2017, well over half are women and girls, and many, have reported grave human rights abuses. After her son’s murder, Miriam* finally fled her village in Myanmar’s conflict-ravaged Rakhine State.

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Featured , Forests , Human Rights , Migration , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/29/2018

Barren hills bring Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis into conflict

Pinaki Roy The impact of hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees have been devastating to the forest cover and water availability in Cox’s Bazar, fuelling resentments with the local population A bunch of tree roots on his head, Ramzan Ali was coming back towards his polythene and bamboo hut at

Health , Human Rights , Migration , Sustainable Development / 09/28/2017

For Some Refugees, Women’s Health Care Is A Culture Shock

Sarah Varney Male doctors examine women patients and that people are supposed to get a checkup even when not sick are some of the culture shocks refugees are confronted with Dinnertime is nearing, and the kitchen in this tidy home is buzzing. Lamyaa Manty, a 29-year-old Iraqi refugee, wears a ne

Data & Reports , Education , Featured , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/12/2017

Fulfilling SDG 4 on Education at risk as 3.5 million refugee children deprived of schooling

The report, “Left Behind: Refugee Education in Crisis”, finds that globally, 91 per cent of children attend primary school. For refugees, that figure is far lower at only 61 per cent – and in low-income countries it is less than 50 per cent. More than 3.5 million refugee children aged 5 to 1

Data & Reports , Education , Featured , Human Rights , Migration / 09/16/2016

UNHCR reports crisis in refugee education

The UN Refugee Agency says more than half of the 6 million school-age children under its mandate have no school to go to Some 1.75 million refugee children are not in primary school and 1.95 million refugee adolescents are not in secondary school, the report found. Refugees are five times more likel

Business , Disasters , Human Rights , Migration , Sustainable Development / 05/01/2016

On Labour day, 12,000 refugees can go homeless in Berlin

A new law starting on May 1 in Berlin to curb on holiday rentals like Airbnb can lead to thousands of refugees going homeless overnight Berlin, a city already facing a housing crunch is introducing a new law from 1st May banning unregistered holiday apartments. Over the past years, many landl

Aid , Data & Reports , Education , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Labour , Migration , Multimedia , Sustainable Development , Videos / 12/08/2015

UN launches 2016 humanitarian appeal asking for $20.1 billion, the highest request ever

More than 125 million people in the world need humanitarian assistance. This will require a record US$20.1 billion in funding – five times the amount a decade ago. Through collective and coordinated action, aid organisations aim to bring urgent help to more than 87.6 million of the most vulnerable

Climate , Environment , Human Rights , Migration , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 10/15/2015

We are entering a new era of migration – and not just for people

Jessica Hellmann, University of Minnesota and David Ackerly, University of California, Berkeley “As ecologists, we know one thing for sure: when the climate changes, organisms move”. The world is watching as refugees flood into a Europe unprepared for the new arrivals. Conflict and socia

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