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Life In Refugee Camps

Life in refugee camps

“The twins were born as the mother struggled with not just her own pang of pain; there was the thunder of artillery shells, the stench of gunpowder and decaying dead…

Law and the refugee

Pakistan has been home to nearly 3.8 million Afghans since Pakistan first started admitting Afghan refugees after the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan war in 1979. The most recent influx of…

Defiant grassroots campaign targets Erdogan voters

Undaunted by their underdog status, Turkish activists are trying to bridge the political divide in a grassroots campaign aimed at helping President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rival in Sunday’s historic election…

Afghan refugees: what does the law say?

If this happens, Pakistan will face the biggest brunt of it as before. The federal interior minister has made a statement that Pakistan will not open up its borders to…

Needs of refugees

On January 18, Lebanon’s human rights record was examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group. Prior to the session, the government of Lebanon submitted…

Covid-19 and refugees

The coronavirus has not yet decimated refugee camps or killed displaced people in significant numbers, as I and many others feared in March. To date, only 32,000 of the world’s…