Roughly 25 percent of deaths among children under five were caused by vaccine-preventable diseases. So UNICEF is working to bring immunization to some of the most remote parts of the world and some of the most vulnerable people. Read more…Mor…
View More These vaccines are on a journey to reach some of the world’s most vulnerable childrenCategory: Refugees
How the U.N. Refugee Agency will use big data to find smarter solutions
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It took a devastating photograph to get the world to pay attention.
The image of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi went viral in September 2015, showing the toddler’s lifeless body washed ashore in Turkey after his family tried to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to find safety in Greece. It was a wake-up call for the international community, particularly people in rich, developed nations who had yet to grasp the scope of continued human suffering caused by the years-long Syrian conflict.
But today, as more than 22.5 million people have fled countries like Syria, South Sudan, and Myanmar because of civil war, famine, and ethnic cleansing, sentiment around the crisis has become nearly as complex as the crisis itself. Politicians continue to spout harmful rhetoric that stokes fears and misconceptions about refugees and migrants, while people who do want to help often resign themselves to feeling that it’s an intractable issue — too overwhelming to make a difference. Read more…
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Millions of refugees could benefit from big data — but we’re not using it
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Today, 65 million people live as refugees or are displaced within their home countries — more than at any other point since the U.N. Refugee Agency began collecting data. Many countries have opened their borders to those displaced by war and famine, but struggle to handle the large influx.
This global crisis is often misunderstood as an overwhelming challenge for which no one can offer a satisfactory solution. But there is a set of tools that would help us, as a global society, take major leaps forward in addressing this crisis. I’m talking about predictive analytics — the statistical science (some would say art) that mines current and past data to predict future outcomes. Read more…
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View More Millions of refugees could benefit from big data — but we’re not using itThere will not be an international refugee team competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics
During the 2016 Olympic Games the International Olympic Committee allowed a collective team of refugees to compete as a way of highlighting the global crises of displaced people. There will not be a similar team for this year’s Winter Games.
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Why Lena Headey is campaigning to support refugee families in Europe
‘Game of Thrones’ star Lena Headey has been working with the International Rescue Committee to raise awareness about some of the social and cultural difficulties refugees face when trying to integrate their lives in Europe. Read more…More abo…
View More Why Lena Headey is campaigning to support refugee families in EuropeOne year after Trump’s first Muslim ban, #SendASign campaign continues fight for refugees
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It was one of the first and most striking examples of resistance against the Trump administration.
On Jan. 27, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order blocking refugees and citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the U.S. It furthered Trump’s campaign promise of a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
One day later, on Jan. 28, 2017, activists and members of faith and immigrant communities came out in droves to protest the ban at major airports, where affected travelers were being detained.
It was a powerful, visual show of solidarity and the widespread opposition to the executive order — crowds of demonstrators rallied outside of airports speaking out against the order while legal professionals and advocates set up camp within terminals to offer free legal help to detainees and their families. Read more…
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View More One year after Trump’s first Muslim ban, #SendASign campaign continues fight for refugeesGlobal warming could cause surge in European asylum seekers in coming decades
Europe is currently struggling to absorb an influx of refugees from war-torn Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and parts of Africa. Germany alone has taken in more than a million people since 2015, many of whom have sought asylum status. This wave of immigra…
View More Global warming could cause surge in European asylum seekers in coming decades‘Sesame Street’ awarded $100 million grant to bring interactive education to refugee children
Sesame Street just won a hefty award to bring educational programming and a humanitarian response to children displaced by war and conflict in the Middle East.
Sesame Street and the International Rescue Committee were awarded a $100 million MacAr…
Refugee mother shares family’s journey to the U.S. in powerful animated video
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Layla’s journey has been anything but easy.
She’s a refugee from the eastern Somali Region of Ethiopia, which she and her husband fled because of conflict and persecution in the early 2000s. They eventually found a temporary home in Saudi Arabia, where they had children and stayed for seven years — before Layla’s husband was deported in 2010. Her employers helped her family escape to Syria.
“I began to start my new life,” Layla says. “My kids had a little education at home.”
But before she could truly settle, civil war erupted in Syria, contributing to one of the worst refugee crises of our time. Layla made the difficult decision to once again flee the country where her family lived, walking for two to three days to the Turkish border, where she ultimately learned of her husband’s death back home. Read more…
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View More Refugee mother shares family’s journey to the U.S. in powerful animated videoEverything you buy in this pop-up store will be given to refugees
“Choose Love” in central London is a peculiar kind of pop-up store where you purchase stuff but don’t actually bring anything home.
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German pilots have stopped more than 200 flights to deport Afghan refugees
Germany is still dealing with the overwhelming impact of the refugee crisis, as fresh government data reveals.
SEE ALSO: Before-and-after satellite images show massive influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
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Before-and-after satellite images show massive influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The severity of the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis becomes even clearer when viewed from space.
An estimated 624,000 Rohingya refugees, a Muslim ethnic minority in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since la…