Turkish Refugee Camp

In March, a naval freight ship could be seen floating off the coast of Lesvos. It contained new arrivals to the Greek island, people who wanted to seek asylum but were denied this right. The ship was overcrowded. Asylum seekers were not allowed to shower on board, and there were…

Scientists at the University of Cape Town have developed a coronavirus tracing app for emerging markets — designed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, implementing the app has been proving difficult. The view from the window of Co-Pierre Georg's workplace at home looked like a picture postcard. The…

Scientists at the University of Cape Town have developed a coronavirus tracing app for emerging markets — designed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, implementing the app has been proving difficult. The view from the window of Co-Pierre Georg's workplace at home looked like a picture postcard. The…

Scientists at the University of Cape Town have developed a coronavirus tracing app for emerging markets — designed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, implementing the app has been proving difficult. The view from the window of Co-Pierre Georg's workplace at home looked like a picture postcard. The…

Vaccination opponents, conspiracy theorists and activists with drastically different political views have been protesting Germany's pandemic measures. Outside Germany this show of unity is rare — except for in the US. Earlier this month, some 400 people turned up to demonstrate in front of the chancellery against the government's measures…

A seven year old Irish citizen currently in Belarus, whose father allegedly fought for Islamic terror group ISIS in Syria, has brought a High Court challenge aimed at getting his passport renewed. ublin-born Abdul Malik Bekmirzaev and his mother, Iryna Paltarzhytskaya, who is a citizen of Belarus, were deported to…

The Trump administration’s emergency restrictions in response to the coronavirus have shut the US immigration system so tight that just two refugees at the southern border have been allowed to stay since 21 March, according to unpublished data from US Citizenship and Immigration Services (Uscis). Citing the threat to public…

Eden Gebre spends every day crammed into a single room of a Tel Aviv apartment with her husband, their 6-year-old twins, and 4-year-old daughter.In the same apartment live two fellow Eritrean asylum-seekers with whom Ms. Gebre is fearful to interact, because she says she is immunocompromised following a liver transplant.…

African countries have been seeking the right response to the crisis. South Africa and Nigeria have started easing lockdown restrictions to give the economy breathing space. Experts have warned that it may be too soon. Djibouti started easing lockdown measures on Monday, despite the country having the highest number of COVID-19 cases in East…

The Humanitarian Works of Shigeru Ban Cardboard Cathedral. Image © Stephen Goodenough 2014 Pritzker Laureate Shigeru Ban may be as well known for his innovative use of materials as for his compassionate approach to design. For a little over three decades, Ban, the founder of the Voluntary Architects Network, has…