Kenya faces extreme weather crises. Humanitarian aid must be part of the solution.
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Since fighting broke out in April 2023, some 150,000 people have been killed in Sudan and an estimated 13.5 million displaced.
The rush for ‘climate visas’ to escape Tuvalu shows the extraordinary need for schemes that enable people to migrate in a warmer world.
Reduction in humanitarian aid globally offers opportunities to address the power imbalances on which data-driven humanitarianism is built.
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect people.
Watching the show, I thought of the conversations I’ve had with asylum seekers and refugees as part of my research.
For many of Lebanon’s 1.5 million Syrian refugees, temporary crossing back into their war-torn homeland was a risk they felt they needed to take.
A year on from the Hamas attacks and Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza, new fronts of fighting are creating another generation of displaced people across the region.
Burkina Faso tops the list of the world’s most neglected crises in the world for the second time in a row.
A recently signed Australia-Tuvalu citizenship agreement offers people displaced by climate change a chance to ‘move with dignity’. But staying with dignity has to be an option too.
Helping our Southeast Asian neighbours make conditions better for refugees there will reduce the need for them to make dangerous journeys elsewhere.
Refugee settlements are particularly affected by high temperatures and extreme rainfall, even more so than the rest of their host countries.
Many displaced Syrians responded to harsh border controls by passing through permeable borders, using alternative routes and relying upon the use of smugglers and social networks.
Cash assistance programs can be designed with incentives that encourage local retailers to keep their prices steady.
Refugee law puts humanitarianism above considerations of state sovereignty.
Refugee camps should only be a temporary solution. They’re no place for ongoing health care.
Canada and its universities have roles to play in providing safe spaces to scholars in regions where research is under threat due to conflict and repression.
Trust and confidence-building are vital in divided nations where various and often antagonist constituencies are brought together.
Nigeria needs a multisectoral approach to break its annual cholera epidemic.
As both citizens and internal migrants, millions of Indians have been left to fend for themselves.
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Scientia Professor and ARC Laureate Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW
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Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Penn State
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Associate Professor and Head of Humanitarian Research Program, Australian National University
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Assistant Professor, Research Methods, School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
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Co-Director of the Wits-Oxford Mobility Governance Lab, University of the Witwatersrand
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Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University
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Lecturer in Emergency Management, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Architecture; Affiliate Faculty, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
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Professor and Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities, Saint Mary’s University
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Postdoctoral Climate Crisis Research Fellow, University of Canterbury
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Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle