Refugees International

For 35 years, my home has been one of the world’s major conflict regions, home also to over 10 million refugees and displaced inhabitants. World Refugee Day is a time to honor and support these individuals and families who persevere through devastating tragedies. read more

I watched President Obama’s Cairo speech about US relations with the Muslim world while in the “no man’s land” between the Syrian and Iraqi border-posts...

A few weeks ago, I visited the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) in Stuttgart, Germany as part of a research project on the imbalance between America's military and civilian expeditionary capabilities...

‘Déjà vu.’ The headline in Pakistan’s English daily The News this morning summed up the country’s reaction to the latest terrorist attack...

Two years ago I tried to visit Darfur to conduct an assessment mission with Refugees International, but was blocked from traveling there by the government of Sudan...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today is holding a hearing on the Obama administration’s nomination of Eric Schwartz as the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration. Schwartz will testify and then respond to questions from the Committee...

We are often quick to chastise a country when it fails to meet its obligations under international law, but how often do we applaud and support them when they do take these laws seriously? One such case that comes to mind is Ecuador...

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There is a sense in Washington that the magnitude of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Pakistan hasn't been fully grasped yet. The latest offensive by the Pakistani military has forced one and a half million people to leave the Swat and Buner districts in less than three weeks...

I am writing from Bahai, a village in eastern Chad right on the border with Darfur. Camilla Olson and I have trekked all the way out here, to what may be the most remote place I have ever visited, to understand the dynamics that make humanitarian assistance so hard to deliver.read more

They did it. In 2006 the brothers Rajapaksa --- newly elected President Mahinda, Defense Secretary Gotabaya, and special adviser Basil --- set out to fulfill their campaign pledge and defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on the battlefield...

Next Wednesday, I am hosting a tournament at the Hard Rock to benefit Refugees International. I think it is going be such a complete hoot because Frank

As I look back over my experiences with Refugees International, it seems to me that Refugees International is more relevant today than ever. I was first introduced to Refugees International by Trish Malloch-Brown in 1995...

During the 1994 mass migration of Rwandan refugees into the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, what many people didn’t realize was that there was also an influx of Rwandan refugees into Uganda...

The following is currently a web feature on PBS NOW: Last October I traveled to Congo with a colleague from Refugees...

It is always amazing to encounter reactions of surprise from my colleagues when I talk about the enormous number of Colombians that fled their homes and land so that they could save their lives...