This year’s initial contribution funded through the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, will support UNHCR efforts worldwide. This funding includes support for refugees returning to countries such as Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo; local integration and resettlement; and protection and life-saving assistance. U.S. funding supports the provision of water, shelter, food, healthcare, and education to refugees, internally displaced persons, and other persons under UNHCR’s care and protection in countries such as Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Georgia, Colombia, South Sudan, and Kenya. The contribution will support UNHCR’s program activities listed below:Read more<
 Gender-based violence (GBV) is often reduced to rape and conceived of as an instrument of war. Yet that does not show the full picture: domestic violence against children and women is far more common, especially among refugees who have escaped violence in their home countries to find a first asylum.Read more<
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It took Jason Lewis< 13 years to reach his goal -- to be the first person to circumnavigate the earth under his own steam, unaided by motors or sails.Read more<
As the Syrian conflict intensifies, thousands of people are fleeing every day for neighbouring Jordan. The Za'atari border camp is now home to almost 90,000 people, a small city of tents, queues and bulldozers scraping up new land for new arrivals. When it rains, the camp becomes a hellish quagmire; when it doesn't, it turns back into dusty, unforgiving desert. But slowly, refugees are adapting to daily life. Here one 18-year-old woman, Raneen, describes daily life in the world's newest refugee clusterRead more<
Lebanon should consider setting up transit centers to absorb the waves of refugees fleeing neighboring Syria and may have to establish formal refugee camps if the influx continues, a United Nations refugee official said.Read more<
As world leaders convene in Kuwait to pledge support to address the enormous humanitarian costs of the “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation” in Syria, it is important to recognise the invaluable contribution that Jordan is making to ensure the protection of the most vulnerable.Read more<
There is nothing new about seeing immigration and immigrants used as scapegoats for popular anxiety or as a diversion from the economic crisis (see the significant following of Golden Dawn in Greece). It is even less surprising to see politicians mobilize electoral support around the moral panic surrounding new immigrant arrivals (see lately the terms and tone of the debate on potential new arrivals from Romania and Bulgaria). Still, the new immigration family rules introduced last summer shed light on a less visible side of immigration policy and practice: the permeability and historically contingent nature of the boundaries between citizenship and non-citizenship and the concrete ways immigration rules produce and shape not only the position, entitlements and experiences of non-citizens in society, but also the very meaning of what citizenship is and of what being a citizen entails.Read more<
Washington, DC (UNHCR) - In the first two months of 2013, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of boats, particularly from Haiti, transporting individuals in Caribbean waters. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reiterates its call for all countries in the Caribbean region, and the United states, to screen all individuals intercepted at sea to determine if they have a fear of persecution, or other protection concerns, before they are returned to their countries of origin.Read more<
From listing problems to focusing on solutions, development communications is changing. But is there more work to be done? Join the debate, Thursday 7 FebruaryRead more<
What is the role and place of migrants in Europe? The Commission is inviting students at schools of art, graphics and communication from all the 27 European Union Member States and Croatia to reflect on the contribution migrants make to societies in Europe.Read more<
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