“Wars have rules,” said the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. “Civilians, hospitals, schools, clinics, and UN premises cannot be a target.” The emergency relief coordinator for the United Nations on Saturday said that “humanity is failing” as officials in the United States and other powerful Western countries refused to hear the calls of a growing number […]
More than just a political “stunt,” said one critic, this is “about inhumane and illegal conduct toward vulnerable people that is an affront to the values of every decent human being.” As Republican Governors Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas continued over the weekend to defend their plot to put refugees and migrants […]
“These are the human consequences of policies which fail to uphold international law and the most basic of humanitarian imperatives.” International rescue organizations on Friday condemned the inaction of European and Libyan authorities after at least 120 asylum-seekers were believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya. The volunteer rescue hotline Alarm Phone alerted humanitarian […]
“This is the overlap between white supremacy, the climate emergency, misogyny, and human rights abuses.” Just 24 hours after refusing to condemn white supremacists during the first 2020 general election debate, President Donald Trump late Wednesday launched a racist attack on refugees from Somalia and other nations and parroted an unfounded right-wing claim about Rep. Ilhan Omar, sparking […]