Refugee camps can wreak enormous environmental damages – should source countries be liable for them?
The Blue Review May 26, 2021 Tents in a Rohingya refugee camp cluster on a muddy hillside in Bangladesh. Saleh Ahmed, CC BY-ND While it may seem that much of the world has been locked down during the past pandemic year, more than 80 million people are currently on the move – unwillingly. Facing conflict in Syria, human rights violations in Myanmar and violence in Eritrea, among other hot spots, refugees are trying to relocate to North America and Western Europe, or at least to neighboring countries. Large camps of displaced persons can wreak major environmental damage. Refugees ...