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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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June 29, 2022
Immigration and Migration
Uproar Over Britain’s Rwanda Asylum Plan Overlooks Nagging Issues in Illegal Migration
Support for immigration in the West must be balanced with concern about governance in African countries.
September 25, 2018
Women and Women's Rights
New Refugee Ceiling Disproportionately Hurts Female Refugees
The Trump administration announced intentions to lower the refugee ceiling in fiscal year 2019, a change that would disproportionately affect women and children, who represented 72 percent of refugee…
July 23, 2020
Americas
Mexican Migration Could Be the First Crisis of 2021
The pandemic has worsened all the factors driving migrants north, not least from Mexico.
April 2, 2018
Venezuela
Venezuela’s Migration Crisis
Yesterday I joined Dany Bahar, David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Francisca Vigaud-Walsh, Senior Advocate for Women and Girls at Refugees International, at the Inter-America…
January 23, 2019
Niger
African Migration Across the Sahara Is Down
The BBC cites data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which are probably the best available. According to IOM, in 2015 there were 6,000 traffickers in the Agadez region of Niger who transported some 340,000 migrants across the Sahara to Libya. The migrants were eventually bound for Europe. They came from all over West Africa to Agadez, long a center of the cross Sahara trade.
