Tag - Refugees

Proposed refugee resettlement into Syrian “safe zone” carries significant risks

October 25, 2019

by Caelin Briggs, Rebecca Barber

Credit: Christchurch City Council

Fortnightly links: a feminine response to terrorism, Cyclone Kenneth, evacuating Odisha, and more

May 10, 2019

by Sachini Muller

An aerial view of Chulalongkorn University Centennial Park in Bangkok at dusk (Credit: Landprocess)

Fortnightly links: the ‘Peace Ark’, PNG’s malnutrition crisis, the park designed to flood, and more

August 3, 2018

by Sachini Muller, Terence Wood

75-year old Rupeni Vatugata, with his wife Losena, watches their story unfold in 360-degree virtual reality (Credit: Tom Perry/World Bank)

Fortnightly links: Turkish elections, ‘Our home, our people’, Conversations in Development, and more

July 6, 2018

by Terence Wood, Sachini Muller

Many Rohingya were forced to trek for a week to reach safety in Bangladesh (Credit: Naymuzzman Prince/UNFPA)

In disasters, violence against women is the huge, often hidden story

June 20, 2018

by Sharman Stone

A scene from 'The Other Side of Hope'

Film review: The Other Side of Hope

April 13, 2018

by Cleo Fleming

Refugee Action protest in Melbourne on 27 July 2013 (Takver/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Five things the Australian Government could do to be a leader in the global compacts

April 10, 2018

by Caelin Briggs

Cover image of Human Flow

Ai Wei Wei’s Human Flow: a review

March 27, 2018

by Stephen Howes

A Syrian refugee walks among severely damaged buildings in downtown Homs, Syria in 2014 (Pan Chaoyue/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The question we should all be asking: will it ever be safe for Syrians to return home?

March 21, 2018

by Majella Hurney

India has been polio-free since 2011 (Scott Edmunds/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Fornightly links: polio eradication, the rise of China, TB, and more

March 2, 2018

by Sachini Muller, Terence Wood