UNHCR will start marking World Refugee Day by rolling out a striking new campaign, “Dilemmas”, which is a development of the award-winning “1” campaign launched last year. “Dilemmas” depicts some of the tough choices facing refugees, helping the public to empathize with,…
“Every minute, eight people around the world are forced to flee their homes due to war and persecution. No one chooses to be a refugee.” Those were the words of UNHCR’s special envoy Angeline Jolie in a videotaped public statement to mark…
Refugee Hot Zones Around the World http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/refugees_0621/4.html Civilians leaving eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 480,000 refugees from the DRC have fled the country, and increased attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army prompted many to leave in 2010. Below: An Iraqi refugee camp…
The Alwero river in Ethiopia’s Gambela region provides both sustenance and identity for the indigenous Anuak people who have fished its waters and farmed its banks and surrounding lands for centuries. Some Anuak are pastoralists, but most are farmers who move to…
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami has appealed to Rio +20 to help save the Awa in Brazil via Brazil: ‘Dalai Lama Of The Rainforest’ Appeals For Rio 20 To Save World’s Most Threatened Tribe.
Living art work creates iconic image demanding “Rivers for Life” Nearly 1500 people used Rio’s Flamengo Beach as a canvas today, their bodies forming the lines of an enormous image promoting the importance of free-running rivers, truly clean energy sources like…
Although they are only five percent of the global population, indigenous people account for up to 15 percent of the world’s poor, according to a new study published by members of the World Bank. The highest percentages of indigenous people in proportion…
Within the next nine days, drinking water at refugee camps in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state will run dry, warned the aid agency Doctors Without Borders on Tuesday. Meanwhile, refugees continue to stream into the state, as the few camps set up…
A Pakistani singer who rejected a decree from the Taliban to end her music career has been shot dead in the north-west of the country. Reports suggest that police believe her husband may be responsible for the attack. Ghazala Javed, 24, was…