Over much of the past decade, Bangladesh’s development prospects have been buoyed by a record of strong and sustained economic growth. Yet even as the country’s bustling urban areas, including the capital city Dhaka, have helped fuel that growth, rapid and unplanned development is leaving......
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The UN chief António Guterres set out a new plan to transform the world’s food systems on Monday – coinciding with the start of World Food Week – which will culminate in a major summit, scheduled to take place in September next year....
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The first 20 years of this century have seen a “staggering” rise in climate disasters, UN researchers said on Monday, while also maintaining that “almost all nations” have failed to prevent a “wave of death and illness” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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Benin City – COVID-19 continues to put a strain on public health systems, as well as on the livelihoods and purchasing power of people around the world. But as the pandemic shows no signs of abating, the impact on the mental health of the most vulnerable......
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Dakar – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is extremely concerned about the increase in deaths recorded on the West Africa route to the Canary Islands. So far this year, IOM’s Missing Migrants Project has recorded more than 500 deaths, most of them during the months......
ResourcesAlmost 40,000 people have sought safety in Sudan over the past two weeks. Many more are expected as the civil war escalates....
ResourcesFrom Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad to UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi, more than 20 visions of the humanitarianism of tomorrow....
ResourcesOver four sessions in October, 20 academics and practitioners from around the world met virtually to discuss the question of how education can enable refugee individuals and communities to build durable futures when there is great uncertainty about where these futures will be? Recognizing the protracted......
ResourcesEn dicho diálogo, algunos de los representantes de las organizaciones que conforman la red en Norteamérica, Centroamérica, Sudamérica y el Caribe, comparten la manera como se coordinan, las acciones que se llevan a cabo y las dificultades, retos y desafíos que atraviesan....
ResourcesEn dicho diálogo, algunos de los representantes de las organizaciones que conforman la red en Norteamérica, Centroamérica, Sudamérica y el Caribe, comparten la manera como se coordinan, las acciones que se llevan a cabo y las dificultades, retos y desafíos que atraviesan....
ResourcesThis text first appeared on Flesh & Blood: The Blog of Mukesh Kapila, and is re-posted here. You may access the original post by clicking this link. Mukesh Kapila is Professor Emeritus of Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester. The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the......
ResourcesThere are 2.7 million Indian immigrants in the United States, making them the second-largest immigrant group after Mexicans. This number has increased dramatically in recent years, growing 13-fold between 1980 and 2019. This article provides an overview of this population, which is more highly educated, likely......
ResourcesThe COVID-19 pandemic poses a range of (im)mobility challenges that the international community has few tools to address. This policy brief examines the valuable guidance offered by the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration on short-term emergency response and the longer-term reopening of......
ResourcesBetween the mid-1830s and the mid-1840s, hundreds of Young Italy’s agents left Italy’s coasts to support the struggle against the Ancien Régime from abroad. From Montevideo to New York, these exiles created associations, founded newspapers, formed military legions, and established a national community abroad. These......
ResourcesQuelles sont les relations entre diasporas, nations, États-nations et empires ? L’exemple de la diaspora grecque figure souvent de manière dominante dans les débats à ce propos. Ayant nourri la « grécité » en exil, la diaspora aurait été le moteur d’une nation se libérant du joug d’un......
ResourcesCet article propose une analyse de la « diaspora de Stuart Hall » à partir des propres concepts forgés par le sociologue. Il cherche à travers le modèle du encoding-decoding (codage-décodage) à explorer les significations de la formation diasporique caribéenne et les positionnements théoriques de......
ResourcesThe Irish nation was judged barbarous by the English colonizer, mainly because of the hybrid Catholicism, the primitive customs and traditions and the inexistence of property warrants of its inhabitants. Hence, Ireland, the first English colony, served as an imperial laboratory and as a reservoir......
ResourcesAfter the end of the Second World War, ideas of empire survived Italy’s imperial wartime defeat and formulated an allegedly new version of the nation-state: one that was democratic, “progressive”, and (post)imperial. This paper explores the role of Italian colonial settlers in fostering ideas of......
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