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November 14, 2016 Dispatches

Trump Promises to Deport 2 or 3 Million People

It’s Been Done Before – and Didn’t Make Communities Safer

November 14, 2016 Q & A

Q&A: Why the EU-Turkey Migration Deal is No Blueprint

November 14, 2016 News Release

EU/US: Obama Should Remind Europe to Defend Rights

In Greece, Germany, Press to Correct Course on Refugees

November 9, 2016 Statement

Australia: Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Inquiry into Abuse, Self-harm, and Neglect of Refugees and Asylum Seekers on Nauru and Manus Island

November 7, 2016 Dispatches

Winter is Coming for Refugees in Greece

Authorities Need to Provide Shelter from Damp And Cold

Tents pinned to the ground of Softex camp in Thessaloniki, Greece.

November 7, 2016 Commentary

Why Cooperating with Libya On Migration Could Damage the EU’s Standing

Migrants on a boat that they tried to take to Italy, after being detained at a Libyan Navy base in Tripoli on September 20, 2015.

November 1, 2016 Report

Central African Republic: Deadly Raid on Displaced People

UN Peacekeepers Should Offer Increased Protection

A man inspects his burned hut in L’Évêché displacement camp, Central African Republic, on October 12. Seleka forces burned at least 435 huts in the camp.

October 31, 2016 Report

Nigeria: Officials Abusing Displaced Women, Girls

Displaced by Boko Haram and Victims Twice Over

Women cook in pots heated up with firewood at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp at Dikwa in Borno State, north-eastern Nigeria, on February 2, 2016.

October 28, 2016 Commentary

France Has Failed Children In Calais

Huddled under blankets, a group of Afghan boys spend the night on the street after French authorities abruptly ended registration and relocation for unaccompanied children who had been staying in the Calais migrant camp, October 26, 2016.

October 27, 2016 News Release

France: Unfinished Calais Efforts Leave Many at Risk

Scores of Unaccompanied Children, Adults Stranded as Relocation Ended

A group of boys from the Calais migrant camp tries to stay warm where they are sleeping overnight in the hope that registration of unaccompanied children and adults would resume in the morning, October 26, 2016.

October 26, 2016 Dispatches

National Geographic’s ‘Afghan Girl’ Faces Deportation from Pakistan

As Pakistan Coerces Refugees to Return, Woman from Iconic Photo Arrested

Visitors look at the "Afghan Girl" photo during U.S. photographer Steve McCurry's exhibition at the Asian Civilisation Museum in Singapore June 26, 2009.

October 26, 2016 Commentary

What Is Happening To The Children Of The Calais 'Jungle'?

Children are at risk if authorities continue to rush dismantlement of the notorious refugee camp.

Outside of the converted containers where unaccompanied children were being sheltered as demolitions began, hundreds more had not yet been registered by midweek.

October 24, 2016 Commentary

Preserving Our Democracies

October 21, 2016 News Release

France/United Kingdom: Protect Children Before Calais Closes

Secure Housing, Care, Guardianship, Family Reunification