Refugees

Image copyrightGetty Images Scientists believe that global sea levels could rise far more than predicted, due to accelerating melting in Greenland and Antarctica, The long-held view has been that the world's seas would rise by a maximum of just under a met…

Eastleigh, Kenya - In a restaurant in Eastleigh, a noisy Nairobi suburb, Shariff Omar, a Kenyan Somali, reaches for a brown folder. "I have managed to get some names of all the needy people in my neighbourhood," he said, flipping through documents as he expl…

The United Nations says funding to meet the healthcare needs of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is running dry. Non-profit organisations are trying to fill the gap but as donor fatigue sets in, the refugee population is growing more vulnerable by the day. Al Jaz…

Image: U.S. Army National Guard / Getty Images On Wednesday, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren introduced the Defense Climate Resiliency and Readiness Act in a Twitter thread and an accompanying Medium post. The thrust of the bill, according to the Medi…

To be an undocumented refugee, these days, is to exist in many places and to not exist at all. It is to have your movements, words, and actions tracked, archived, and multiplied. It is to live between fences, tents, and databasesone new entry per doctors visi…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) Palestinians on Wednesday marked the 71st anniversary of their mass displacement during the 1948 war around Israel's creation with protests across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Thousands of people streamed to the Gaza-Israel fr…

The ongoing theme of this site is the possibility and practical-mindedness of much of local-level America, at just the moment when national-level politics have become so bitter and dysfunctional. But of course cities exist within states and regions, and state…

A group of residents of Australia's Torres Strait Islands has filed a landmark complaint with the United Nations against the Australian government, alleging that a failure to address climate change violates their fundamental human rights. The case was lodg…

Fisher Island, a man-made island off the coast of Miami, is the richest zip code in the US, according to Bloomberg. The average income of the island's residents is a whopping $2.2 million. To become a member of the elite Fisher Island Club, you must pay…

Being a girl or woman is knowing that you're full of complexities and contradictions that society helped create but discourages you from claiming or criticizing.  The doting mother secretly battles depression intensified by the expectation of "having it all"…