Unwelcome Refugees

CAIRO (AP) The United Nations refugee agency says it has evacuated 131 African refugees from Libya to its emergency transit center in neighboring Niger. The UNHCR released a statement Thursday saying the evacuees were from Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan, and inc…

Alice + Whittles makes use of high-quality materials that would otherwise go to waste. Whenever I find out about a shoe company making footwear from recycled, upcycled, or biodegradable materials, I get excited. There are not a lot of companies making eco-fr…

(GENEVA) — A record 71 million people have been displaced worldwide from war, persecution and other violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, an increase of more than 2 million from last year and an overall total that would amount to the world’s 20th …

Who comes to mind when you picture a refugee? You probably don’t imagine a European. But if you were a child of World War II and asked your parents what a refugee was, they would probably have described someone from Europe. More than 40 million Europeans wer…

Editors Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos. As World Refugee Day approaches on June 20, the number of refugees worldwide will likely surpass last years 25.4 million. That governments in the West and elsewhereunder pressure from anti-i…

CAIRO (AP) Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted a rubber vessel carrying 91 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Sunday that three women and two children were among the…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Social entrepreneurs at the leading creative edge of climate and culture speak at Welcome Change in New York City (left to right): Bren Smith of GreenWave, Paula Daniels of Center for G…

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Men in Black: International, in theaters now. The original Men in Black firmly established the history of the agency, which polices aliens living in secret on Earth, and protects the planet from intergalacti…

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In December, 2018, a volunteer who teaches photography at a school for refugee children on the Greek island of Samos gave Kodak disposable cameras to her class. She told the students to photograph their daily lives. When we developed the pictures, we were hig…