Migration crisis
MIGRATION has been in the media and policy spotlight lately. Several international migration-related developments have refocused attention on migration and asylum issues. Recently, the small Italian town of Lampedusa received…
Migration crisis
Top officials of 11 Latin American and Caribbean governments met October 22 in Chiapas, Mexico to deal with the flood of migrants heading to the United States. There was agreement…
The migration crisis
Through his administration’s recent policies towards Haiti and Haitian migrants, President Joe Biden is carrying out a crime against humanity. Unfortunately, this represents continuity in a decades-long, bi-partisan policy toward…
The global migration crisis
The US ‘war on terror’ triggered a new age of ‘global conflict’. The unfolding events in the Middle Eastern chapter of the war on terror are now entering a decisive…
Migration crisis tears at EU’s cohesion and tarnishes its image
Deep divisions over how to cope with a flood of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia pose a threat to the European Union's values and global standing and…
Migration in crisis
How hard is displacement? Displacement affects people’s souls, hearts, belongings, and most of all, physical wellbeing. This shows the deep sadness of those who try illegal immigration and lose everything.…
Aid-cut crisis
As the UN’s independent expert on poverty, I am no stranger to harrowing statistics. But few numbers have shaken me like those emerging in the wake of the Trump administration’s…
Water wars looming? Indus crisis and South Asian stability
A rare paradigm of cooperation between India and Pakistan, the Indus Waters Treaty, which was brokered by the World Bank in 1960, has remained operative against the backgrounds of wars,…
UN eyes major overhaul amid funding crisis, internal memo shows
The United Nations is considering a massive overhaul that would merge major departments and shift resources across the globe, according to an internal memo prepared by senior officials tasked with…
The climate crisis is now
A hailstorm in Islamabad and surrounding areas a few days ago delivered one of the harshest warnings for both urban and rural populations. Farmlands were devastated, and the expensive windscreens…
