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The Trump Administration sets new all-time low number for refugee admissions at 15,000 for fiscal year 2021
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) today reacts to news that President Donald J. Trump set the refugee admissions goal at just 15,000 refugees for fiscal year 2021, a new all-time low number for the third year in a row and a further abdication...
Satellite imagery of Aden indicates scale of pandemic in Yemen
Academics’ analysis of burial plots points to excess deaths level in crisis-ridden country
David Miliband
Yemen is unlike any tragedy witnessed before. Its health system has collapsed, and a lack of testing means COVID continues to spread undetected. This war is a stain on the global conscience and must be brought to an end.
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Tell Congress: Expelling asylum seekers must end
Tell Congress that the administration must provide individuals access to protection at U.S. borders and reverse its policies preventing asylum seekers from seeking safety. Join the International Rescue Committee in calling on Congress to...
2020 Presidential Elections
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The Isolationist Impulse and the American Experience: Implications for US Grand Strategy
In his 1796 farewell address, US President George Washington cautioned the American people against entangling alliances, setting the nation on an isolationist course that would last until the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor.
David Miliband
It was good to be with @ChathamHouse in this discussion on isolationism, the future of America’s engagement with the world, and implications for the US 'grand strategy'. Watch in full here
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Parents of 545 children separated at US border still can't be found
Lawyers have not been able to reach the parents of 545 children who had been separated from their families by US border officials between 2017 and 2018, according to a Tuesday court filing.
Anticipate and Act
David Miliband
Looking forward to joining the Swedish Government, @UNDRR and @WFP in this critical conversation shortly on climate change and food insecurity as a consequence of it. This is the modern face of humanitarian crisis. Please join us, watch live here
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Civilian deaths in Sahel states increase 1,870 percent as military response fails to stop violence and humanitarian needs spike, warns IRC
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is alarmed about the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Central Sahel states of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, with a record 13.4 million people in need of humanitarian assistance across the...
David Miliband
Alarming situation rapidly deteriorating: in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, over 1.5M are now internally displaced across the region – a 320% increase since the beginning of 2019 and one of the fastest growing displacements globally. @RESCUEorg monitoring
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We must make targeting hospitals unacceptable again. Start with Syria | Opinion
The World Health Organization estimates that 50 percent of the 550 health facilities in Syria have been damaged, destroyed or closed due to conflict.
Teenage refugee’s joy after scholarship to Ipswich School ‘changed my life’
This is the story of Tekle - an 18-year-old who fled war and famine before finding a bright future in Ipswich.
The story of the blaze that destroyed Moria camp
BBC Newsnight looks into the origins of the fire that destroyed Europe's largest refugee camp.
Refugees Who Assisted the U.S. Military Find the Door to America Slammed Shut
President Trump has reduced the flow of refugees into the country to a trickle, and even Iraqis and Afghans who risked their lives for American service members have been cut off.
David Miliband
161 Iraqis allowed into the US as refugees in the last fiscal year - after risking their lives to support the US. Not fair, not smart, not right.
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How Do You Explain The Refugee Crisis To A Toddler?
“Having a small child is often like a very long game of pass the parcel where the music always stops on you, you’re wearing a giant pair of sticky gloves, and between every layer is a new variety of shit”
Three-quarters of refugee women in Africa report rise in domestic violence during Covid-19
'Reducing exposure to the virus increased exposure to violence for women and girls'
Uniting the Techno-Democracies
Liberal democracies need a forum to hammer out joint responses to technological issues.
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David Miliband
What a relief to read something not just complaining about the march of autocracy but proposing to do something about it - in one of THE vital spheres. This is a bold and correct agenda. Technology and democracy must be brought in harness not opposition.
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A Crusade for Something Noble - The Bulwark
In 1948, General Dwight D. Eisenhower released an expansive memoir that transcribed his personal account as Supreme Allied commander in Europe during World War II, the single most important American military official in the war. He chronicled the...
David Miliband
This is an important statement about modern politics - & about how democratic politics to be saved. The threat of “democratic recession” needs to be fought with imagination and vigor, globally as well as in US
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