As delegates begin to debate Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, they must be careful not to undermine already existing rights.
People still live in the Jungle camp outside Calais, one year after the French police turned it into a wasteland. Cold, wet, constantly harassed – how much longer must they wait?
Forced migrants are turning away from the UK for fear of racial discrimination post-Brexit. While some on the right may cheer, is this really something to celebrate?
French authorities are working hard to keep migrants either stationary and submissive or perpetually on the move in order to prevent them from coalescing into communities or forming alliances.
As refugees try to cross the Mediterranean Sea - women are more likely to drown.
Refugee camps are neither all milk and honey nor are they all misery and suffering. To find a way forward, we must first understand where we are.
Europe’s failure to listen to people on the move has left it blind to why many people end up going there.
The families of many Irish citizens and residents are stuck in war zones. Why won’t the state offer them safe passage?
Regardless of if you look at United States, Europe, or the Pacific, the global asylum system is quickly falling apart.
Social media helped coordinate a volunteer response to the new arrivals on Lesvos when governments failed to step up to the plate, but can such a system be replicated?
For women migrants from Bangladesh, education and technical skills can be real game changers.
As states fortify their external borders the calls for creating ‘safe passage’ are growing louder, yet the term is hard to define and the ways to dodge responsibility are many.
