This includes the United Nations World Food Programme and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, which helps asylum seekers and refugees fleeing violence or persecution find a safe place to live. Image:A USAID supported project ...
Moreover, Duolingo empowers diverse learners worldwide, from refugees learning English to job seekers acquiring new skills. The real impact is clear – according to thestudyof Duolingo’s beginning-level users, Duolingo learners reached comparable levels of reading and listening proficiency to universit...
Beyond the sea level rise, floating cities would have to plan for climate refugees who are seeking shelter. As extreme weather intensifies (as a result of climate change), floating homes could be particularly vulnerable. There are also environmental concerns about floating cities. For example, how...
Trump also will move to resettle white South African farmers and their families as refugees, the White House said. “As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid ...
“contains false solutions such as ‘carbon markets.’ Many large global funders are still wedded to false solutions such as fracked gas, mega-dams, clean coal, and carbon capture.” “failed to adequately address the threat climate change poses to the ‘undeveloped’ world.” “failed to addr...
Modern medicine alleviates more pain and suffering for children than ever in world history — everything from removing an appendix, to hernias, to fixing broken bones and orthopedic problems, to cancer. Without these fixes, children can suffer socially and emotionally as well as physically. But ...
Sharing a 2,400-kilometer border with Myanmar and hosting hundreds of thousands of Myanmar refugees in border regions and many more inside Thailand, Bangkok can claim to have a special interest in seeking a quick resolution of the Myanmar conflict. Thailand played a similar role in ending the ...
“world’s laboratory” due to its leadership in the vaccine program, many Arab minorities, in particular, embraced the narrative that they should not be “laboratory mice” for the world.Footnote2For example, in pitching these national/local narratives against his own scientific understanding of ...
The pandemic, though dark in so many respects, has a green lining. The halt in travel allowed Mother Earth to rest andrecover after a busy year in which about 1.5 billion people flitted around the globe. Before borders closed, ...
It ranks second to last, only ahead of Somalia, on the UN’s Human Development Index. Nearly 2.4 million people had fled the country as refugees as of June 2023, while 2.3 million people are classed as internally displaced within South Sudan. Among them is Simon Madol, who lives at the ...