Humanity
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UK armed forces asked to help deal with migrant boats crossing Channel
Taking advantage of a spell of hot weather and calm sea conditions, hundreds of people including children and pregnant women…
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Guns v giving: the trend that says everything about our priorities
We’ve always spent more on arms than aid, of course. Matt Wade The Sydney Morning Herald But the amount allocated…
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‘He looked so sad’: the new mum who welcomed a refugee into her home
When yoga teacher Natalie Le Sueur, 49, read of his plight, she welcomed him into her home and family. Susan…
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China clears man of murder after 27 years behind bars
Zhang Yuhuan, 52, was jailed for the murder of two young boys in 1993 but always maintained he was tortured…
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Pandemic’s economic fallout will worsen conflicts: U.N. diplomats
COVID-19 is hampering aid programs, diverting the attention and resources of major powers battling the deadly virus at home, and…
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Salvaging the Security Council’s Coronavirus Response
Their appeal has fallen flat. ICG Council members should use their August downtime to look at how it might still…
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Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19
Humanity will be “finished” if we fail to drastically change our food systems in response to the coronavirus pandemic and…
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Solidarity with the Germans
If anything, the way debt mutualization was snuck into the financing of the scheme will probably turn out to have…
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The Deaths of 150,000 Americans Are on Trump’s Hands
Who will hold them accountable? Elie Mystal The Nation Last week, the number of Americans dead from Covid-19 surpassed 150,000.…
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With borders closed, our lifelines to family overseas have been cut. The isolation is suffocating
Τhe first exhibition I visited when I arrived in Sydney in 2010 was called On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants.…
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Older women are the new face of homelessness in Australia, and the government is failing them
That is how Vanessa described her experience of becoming homeless for the first time in her 50s. Josh Burns The…
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Free but restless, Behrouz Boochani takes tentative first steps into new life
It’s the middle of the day in a sleepy, affluent suburb of Christchurch and Kurdish Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani is…
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India’s migrant crisis pointed to another problem – its lack of shelter homes
On March 24, when the government announced a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, India was served a…
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Australia’s borders are shut, so where does that leave refugees?
When COVID-19 reached Australia in late March, the government swiftly closed the country’s borders and hit pause on the Humanitarian…
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New Zealand grants asylum to Behrouz Boochani, Kurdish-Iranian refugee who was detained on Manus Island
The Kurdish-Iranian journalist spent six years in detention in Papua New Guinea for asylum seeker processing after attempting to enter…
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German court convicts 93-year old man for Nazi crimes
Bruno D. had acknowledged his presence at the camp but argued that did not amount to guilt Arab News BERLIN,…
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