by Miers, Paul D. | Feb 29, 2020 | front page, stories
Home to four million civilians, northwest Syria is in the midst of a humanitarian catastrophe. Intense fighting in Idlib has forced 950,000 people to flee since December 1. More than 50 percent have been women and children. Many of these families had fled the area...
by Ballengee, Jennifer R. | Feb 2, 2020 | blog, front page, stories
Jennifer Ballengee There are currently 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world—the highest number ever on record. Over 20 million of these people are recognized by the United Nations as refugees of war. Millions of these people live in tents—fields of...
by Miers, Paul D. | Mar 7, 2019 | front page, stories
Read the full story: The Associated Press
by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 30, 2019 | front page, stories
Paul Miers Given the U.S. government’s new policy of deporting legal asylum seekers at the Mexican border, we should remember the deportees whose deaths led Woody Guthrie to write “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos” in 1948. Their stories have finally been...
by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 27, 2019 | front page, stories
One refugee’s firsthand account of his family’s harrowing journey from Syria to Europe. Read the full story: Slate.
by Miers, Paul D. | Jan 16, 2019 | front page, stories
“Hitting a woman for a man is as normal as eating a tortilla from a food stand on the way to work,” said Karen Paz, 34, from San Pedro Sula in Honduras, revealing a scar from a burn on her left shoulder. “He wanted to burn my face, but my daughter...
