Unwelcome Refugees

On board the Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean - Libya acts as a major gateway for African migrants hoping to reach Europe. According to the UN, there are more than 40,000 refugees and migrants in Libya.  However, a 2018 UN report released highlighted that …

Onboard the Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean - Forty-two-year old Florent* took off his life jacket, knelt to the floor of the Ocean Viking, a migrant rescue vessel, and let out a roar. He looked up, index fingers pointing to the sky as tears rolled down hi…

According to Dr. Grossmann, the historian, Ms. Spitzers account of her journey immediately after the war was deliberately vague. She alluded to smuggling Jews across borders through the Bricha, an underground movement that helped refugees move illegally acros…

Addis Ababa — Refugees are struggling to get by in Ethiopia under rules that bar them from working Bethelihem Tesfatsion is a successful businesswoman, who has sold thousands of hand-stitched Eritrean dresses worldwide, but she operates in the shadows, waiti…

Russian authorities have detained a man accused of building a fake fence in the woods close to the countrys border with Finland in order to trick a group of migrants into believing he had smuggled them across into the European Union. The man set up fake bord…

MILAN, Italy — “It is time for transparency, it is time to take responsibility,” Carlo Capasa, chairman of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI), the governing body of Italian fashion, told BoF at the launch event of its Diversity and Inclusivity Ma…

LONDON (Reuters) - From Haiti’s devastating earthquake to war in Syria, Reuters photographers have covered the biggest news stories of the decade, capturing images of armed conflict, natural disasters, the plight of migrants and the drama of sport. Below is…

VUCJAK, Bosnia (Reuters) - Hundreds of migrants and refugees stuck in a makeshift camp in a Bosnian forest are struggling to survive in subzero temperatures as snow weighs down on their tents, spurring fears that some may die unless they are resettled soon. …

Since taking office in 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron has cultivated an image as a champion of the European Union at a time of shifting global power balances and resurgent populism. But his latest diplomatic efforts risk alienating Germany and other k…

For this months Design Store(y), we talked to James Turner, founder of Glimpse a collective for creative people who want to use their skills for good about their decision to open three pop-up stores with a difference. As of the first weekend in December, you …