refugees

Modern migration challenges: U.S. immigration policy fails to balance national security and human rights

Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the White House fails to recognize the country’s legal obligation to asylum seekers and instead seeks to criminalize migrants. The ad hoc arrangement of immigration policy in the United States is wrought with inconsistencies and ill-equipped to deal with the modern realities of human displacement, presenting a serious threat to the country’s longstanding humanitarian tradition.

Rohingya crisis: Why policy solutions are tricky and what to do about it

Federica Mogherini, EU's diplomatic chief talk with rohingyas woman at Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh. Photo and caption by European External Action Service.

As we enter the second year of the refugee crisis in southeast Bangladesh, solutions are slow to come and needs remain unmet. The rapid growth of at-risk refugee populations around the world has put international humanitarian institutions to the test, and a critical evaluation of how governments, humanitarian organizations and international institutions have handled the […]

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