Refugees

Around the world, there are more startups addressing the worlds most pressing social challenges. Theres Asaduru, a South Africa-based green building business; Skilllab BV in the Netherlands, which helps refugees better integrate into labor markets; and Limbic…

More than 1,000 Google employees published an open letter to chief financial officer Ruth Porat on Monday demanding the company take action on climate change. The Googlers are not alone in publicly putting pressure on upper management to take action on clima…

Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.  Stephen Shankland/CNET Google employees on Monday called on company management to take action against climate change. More than 1,000 workers signed an open letter to Ruth Porat, Google's chief financial of…

Googlea company headquartered on Earthhas notalways been keen to cave to the demands of its increasingly vocal and organized staff. Nonetheless, 1,000 Googlers have now signed a letter seeking to force the company to reckon with its role in accelerating clima…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon, two U.S. officials said on Thursday, two days after the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri. The State Department …

By Jonas Ekblom BRUSSELS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic broke the law by refusing to take in asylum seekers coming to the European Union during the chaotic summer of 2015, an advisory body to the bloc's highest court said on Thurs…

Poverty, not war-related trauma, drives cognitive deficits in child refugees displaced by conflict, according to a new study of adolescents affected by the crisis in Syria. While somewhat unexpected, given the high levels of war exposure in Syrian refugees, …

The Turkish government has been forcibly deporting refugees to war-torn Syria, two international rights groups have alleged, days after Ankara concluded a cross-border operation partly aimed at creating a so-called "safe zone" to settle millions of refugees l…

For about five months now, Hong Kong citizens have been protesting against Beijings increasingly authoritarian control over their semi-autonomous city. Despite the intensity of their struggle, it seems increasingly likely that eventually, Beijing will use wha…

An Oasis For Refugees?