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WHERE: Registration required. Click here for more information.  About the Moderator: Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Davidson College. Her doctoral work centered on a coalition of social movement organizations calling for an end to the ongoing "non-governmental" occupation of Haiti. She is currently working on a monograph entitled  Development Contested in Occupied Haiti: Social Movements, NGOs, and the Evangelical State. She has also served as...

A refugee at the Gashora transit centre in Rwanda receives his COVID-19 vaccine.  © Plaisir Muzogeye.

Florida International University Search March 16, 2021 at 3:42pm Undocumented immigrants who have children born in the United States live with a particular fear: What will happen if they are deported, and their children are left alone in this country? “How do parents deal with this?” wondered Maryam Rafieifar, a doctoral student in social welfare at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work. “What steps do they take to ensure their children’s safety?” Rafieifar wanted ...

Sense of peaceful co-existence is growing up between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims By Md. Kamruzzaman The writer Kamruzzaman is an Asia-based prize-winning freelance journalist who mainly writes on diplomacy, refugee, human rights, and climate change. His articles have been frequently published by Turkish Anadolu Agency, South Asian Monitor, and other media outlets including Aljazeera as the content of the Anadolu Agency Since its independence from the British colony on January 4, 1948, Myanma...

February 23, 2021 Covid-19 travel restrictions brought human mobility to a grinding halt and left millions of people stranded globally. While the focus must remain on the acute health crisis and equitable vaccine distribution, the unprecedented level of immobility offers an opportunity to rethink and reshape global migration systems increasingly overfocused on securitized responses. Doing so could be the difference between economic rebound and stagnation. Not doing so could have grave strategic...

The disengagement process by India and China in eastern Ladakh is complete after nine rounds of diplomatic and military level talks between the two neighbours, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said here on Sunday as he hit out at Congress for doubting Indian soldiers bravery. The country will not allow any "unilateral action" on its border and will pay any cost to thwart such attempts, he told the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morchas state conference here. "After nine rounds of military and diplomati...

…Identify Factors Responsible for Human Trafficking, Forced Migration BENIN CITY – The CLEEN Foundation, a Non-Governmental and profit Organisation (NGO), Weekend, held a one-day Town Hall Meeting in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State on the need to raise awareness on Human Trafficking and Forced Migration particularly in the state. The Meeting which was …

…Identify Factors Responsible for Human Trafficking, Forced Migration BENIN CITY – The CLEEN Foundation, a Non-Governmental and profit Organisation (NGO), Weekend, held a one-day Town Hall Meeting in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of Edo State on the need to raise awareness on Human Trafficking and Forced Migration particularly in the state. The Meeting which was christened “Community Awareness: Panacea To Ending Trafficking Of Women and Girls’ was also aimed to seek possible solutio...

Posted February 17, 2021 Cranaleith Spiritual Center, a nonprofit conference and retreat center in Northeast Philadelphia, will offer a morning of reflection on a pressing and timely topic: forced migration. On Saturday, Feb. 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Maureen McCullough and Ella Guimond of Catholic Relief Services’ Northeast Mid-Atlantic Regional team will use the story of the good Samaritan and Pope Francis’ recent encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, as a framework to outline the issue of...

A refugee family from Syria pictured at their home, in May 2016. They were previously resettled to the United States from Jordan.  © UNHCR/Tone Stockenstrom.