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Chitra Ahanthem As I sit down to write this post on the nature of media reporting on the issues faced by people living in border town of Mor...

Supurna Banerjee Embarking a crowded train from Sealdah on my first ever field visit to Nadia I was in no way prepared for the experience th...

Reviewed by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury The book entitled The Line: Women, Partition and the Gender Order in Cyprus written by Cynthia Cockbur...

Shivam Vij [A shorter, edited version of this story appeared in Open magazine on 16 July 2009)“Ey pekir Uyghur, oyghan!” (Hey poor Uyghur, w...

Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty Note: The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs co...

Compiled by Priyanca Mathur Velath THE history of South Asia is unique in the context of population displacement. People have been pushed be...

BANGKOK: Continuous fighting between Myanmar's junta and rebel ethnic armies in the northeast has driven more than 10,000 refugees into ...

Compiled by Priyanca Mathur Velath COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government is gearing to re-settle in the next two weeks 44,000 of the nearly 3 l...

S.B.Subba Almost after 18 years of refugee life in the seven refugee camps in two districts of Jhapa and Morang of eastern Nepal, the Bhutan...

In a recently concluded World Refugee Survey by USCRI, millions of refugees have been found to spend from 10 to 60 years -- an entire lifeti...

Lavinia Limon [President, USCRI] Because of the quick action taken by people like you, 36,000 refugees in the Mtabila refugee camp in Tanzan...

Denis Sewell in “Poles are the fall guys of the immigration debate” seeks to make an analysis of the impact of migration in England over a p...

Priyanca Mathur Velath Rehabilitation, more often than not, from a human rights issue, largely converts into a political one. The rehabilita...

Sahana Basavapatna Some refugee groups in India, notably, the Burmese, Afghans and Iranians, can be said to be recognized by the Government ...

Ksenia Glebova It is better to have a hundred friends than a hundred roubles, claims a popular Russian proverb. In times of war these words ...

Pakistan today is faced by a humanitarian crisis perhaps greater than terrorism, the threat posed by a whopping number of 3.4 million person...

Numerous conflicts inside Sudan over the last few years, there have been huge number of internal displacements. In fact, an estimated 4.9 mi...

Kusal Perera, [Sri Lanka] The international community, the UN Security Council, The Commonwealth Member Countries, the SAARC are all organiz...

Suha Priyadarshini Chakravorty Of the modern day marvels that mark the fulcrum of ‘power equations’ and ‘development’ globally, nuclear powe...

Sri Lanka- Vanni Civilians held back in Ki’Linochchi in Thousands The final stages of the military flush out operation that the Sri Lankan a...