The Darién Gap migration crisis in six graphs, and one map
Jan 15, 2024 · A number of factors caused the dramatic 2023 uptick in Darién Gap crossings. Changes in migration policies across the region have made it more difficult for those trying to reach the United States from South America to cross borders legally. Several countries imposed visa restrictions on Venezuelans and Haitians, even as countries such as Chile and Peru militarised their borders, pushing ...
How the Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion endangers Congolese Tutsi
Jul 10, 2024 · Mukanoheri is now living in the Nkamira transit centre, which is set among western Rwanda’s lush green hills. The camp has seen more than 15,000 mostly Congolese Tutsi pass through it since last year. “It was a massacre,” said Mukanoheri, who gave only her first name for fear of reprisals, recalling last year’s attack.
The New Humanitarian | ‘This is inexcusable’: What's behind ...
Dec 4, 2023 · The numbers arriving this year increased significantly beginning in July, when the pushbacks carried out by Greek authorities reportedly subsided.. Human rights organisations have raised concerns about restrictions on movement, excessive surveillance, and “prison-like” conditions in the new EU-funded facilities – called Closed Controlled Access Centres (CCAC) – since the first one ...
Ethnic cleansing isn’t a crime. Should it be?
Jan 24, 2024 · International criminal law recognises four types of core crimes: war crimes; crimes against humanity; genocide; and the crime of aggression. The atrocities and abuses the term ethnic cleansing is used to describe can qualify as one of the core crimes, but not ethnic cleansing itself. “We have a legal loophole with this term,” Pégorier ...
How DR Congo’s M23 conflict is impacting Goma
Apr 4, 2024 · A man who escaped the M23 conflict sets up a tent at a makeshift displacement site in the city of Goma on 28 March 2024. Around 700,000 people have escaped to Goma during the past two years of conflict. Renewed fighting between the M23 armed group and pro-government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has pushed thousands more ...
The New Humanitarian | Burkina Faso massacre, Big Aid cuts, and …
Aug 30, 2024 · In case you missed it. AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban government has announced a sweeping new set of laws that empower the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice to impose strict punishments on women for not covering their faces or speaking out aloud in public, and on men for not properly growing out their beards. In response to international criticism, the Islamic Emirate ...
Why these 10 humanitarian crises still demand your attention
Jul 17, 2024 · At the start of the year, we published this analysis flagging how – even as the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine dominated headlines going into 2024 – it was important to remember the many other crises that were being too easily forgotten by the media and neglected by aid donors.. Tens of millions of affected people in these settings continue to live in extreme hunger or extreme danger, while ...
The Rohingya: Tracking the history of today’s refugee crisis
Oct 9, 2024 · In the years since the exodus, the plight of the fewer than 500,000 Rohingya who remain in Myanmar has only become more dire, thanks largely to the February 2021 military coup and an escalating civil war involving several armed ethnic resistance groups.Today, the Rohingya, like millions of other civilians in Myanmar, are subjected to deadly air raids, forced conscription, and alleged aid ...
Why these 10 humanitarian crises demand your attention now
Jan 8, 2024 · Why these 10 humanitarian crises demand your attention now. Beyond Gaza and Ukraine, emergency aid needs are going unmet in these neglected hotspots around the globe. As the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine continue to dominate headlines going into 2024, it’s important to remember the many other crises that are too easily forgotten by the media ...
Behind the numbers: Gaza’s unprecedented aid worker death toll
Mar 21, 2024 · One in every 100 UNRWA staff in Gaza has been killed – the highest staff death toll in UN history. Local staff have shouldered the brunt of the violence: All the aid workers killed in Gaza are national Palestinian staff, reflecting who’s responsible for the bulk of aid, and the sector’s continuing inability to extend the protection ...