Baw Meh dreams of a safer future for her grandchildren
Baw Meh, 78 years old: “I got married very young. My parents arranged it. We never saw each other before the wedding. He said, you’re very slim, and I said, you’re handsome and manly. We laughed but after those first words we were shy to walk together. We had good...
Mediterranean death toll soars in first five months of 2016
GENEVA, May 31 (UNHCR)—At least 880 people are believed to have drowned last week in a spate of shipwrecks and boat capsizings on the Mediterranean, the UN Refugee Agency said today. “For so many deaths to have occurred just in a matter of days and months is shocking...I am here, I belong: the urgent need to end childhood statelessness
Stateless children are born into a world in which they will face a lifetime of discrimination; their status profoundly affects their ability to learn and grow, and to fulfill their ambitions and dreams for the future. With a stateless child being born somewhere in the...