This story originally appeared on Worldathletics.org to mark this year’s World Refugee Day.Photo © Getty Images for IAAF, used with permission. ~~ Otmane Nait-Hammou admits that his present relationship with the 3000m steeplechase wasn’t exactly love at first sight. But over time, the Athlete Refugee Team member says his admiration for the event has grown… Continue reading
Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed knows more than most about crossing difficult terrain.
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Dominic Lokinyomo was eight when his family fled the violence of Sudan’s civil war, and not yet nine when they were separated. To help dull the pain of that separation, he took up sport and began to run. That early passion eventually landed him at the UNHCR KENYA-sponsored Tegla Loroupe Training Camp for Athlete Refugees… Continue reading
Don’t let your inexperience get the better of you. That was the main objective Chajen Dang carried with her to the javelin runway at Stephen Keshi Memorial Stadium on the fourth day of the African Athletics Championships in Asaba, Nigeria, last August. It was a reasonable goal. At 17, she was competing in her first… Continue reading
The work centers on migration as a study of what displacement has meant, been and wrought over the past 70 years. The timelessness of the story it weaves is riveting.
Continue readingA complimentary offer from the NY Times Insider TBooks collection, “Climate Refugees: How Global Change Is Displacing Millions” is a compilation of Times reporting in 2016 on people and communities forced to resettle due to the effects of climate change.
The ebook brings together the work of Times reporters who spent months on the ground in several countries on four continents: Bolivia, China, Niger, Kiribati and the US (Alaska and Louisiana where the first federal grant was given to relocate climate refugees). I’ve read most of the stories and linked to some separately here, but it is quite useful and convenient to have them all bundled together.
Available for just about every kind of reader or simple PDF. Get it here (link updated 22 July 2025).
Mayors of five central and Southern European cities met for an informal round table meeting in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana on Thursday (March 10) to discuss ongoing efforts in their respective municipalities towards achieving urban sustainability. Mayor of Ljubljana Zoran Jankovic hosted the event which was also attended by Mayor of Sofia, Bulgaria, Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Budapest Istvan… Continue reading
NOTE: When I was in Beirut last month I met with country officials from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and UNICEF for a briefing on the situation of Syrian refugees currently living in the country. It’s one that has reached crisis proportions in less than four years: Lebanon now hosts more than one million… Continue reading
I spent a large part of today near the Slovenian-Croatian border in the towns of Dobova and Brezice where a logjam of migrants making their way to northern Europe is becoming particularly acute. As usual, children, like the girl above, are making the most of the surreal situation they find themselves in only because they… Continue reading