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May 24, 2013 | Caelin Briggs | Tagged as: Africa, Congress, South Sudan, U.S. Administration, United Nations, Humanitarian Response, Protection & Security
A man stands in the middle of a dusty compound. Around him, 60 people sit and drink water that he paid for, eat food that he gave them, and take shelter under the roof of his own house. Their faces are a mix of relief and sadness: relief that they escaped the violence that caused them to flee, and sadness for the destruction they have witnessed and for those they have left behind. These people are not this man’s family – in fact, he has never met most of them before today. But for these 60 people, this man is their only hope, and the only person keeping them alive.
May 20, 2013 | Dara McLeod | Tagged as: Africa, South Sudan, Humanitarian Response, Protection & Security, Women & Children
My colleagues and I made our way to the compound of a Member of Parliament in the country’s troubled Jonglei state. We were there to meet with several people who had sought refuge from violence in the town of Pibor. People like Mary.
May 14, 2013 | Caelin Briggs | Tagged as: Africa, South Sudan, Humanitarian Response, Protection & Security, Women & Children
On Friday night, the last of the humanitarian workers in Pibor town were evacuated by UN helicopter as South Sudanese forces roamed the dusty streets, attacking civilians and looting anything they could carry.
May 13, 2013 | Guest | Tagged as: Haiti, Americas, Humanitarian Response, Women & Children
Voices of Haiti captures, through words, photography, and song, Haitians navigating seemingly insurmountable challenges.
May 09, 2013 | Sarnata Reynolds | Tagged as: Africa, Bangladesh, Burma, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Kuwait, Nepal, South Sudan, Sudan, Americas, Asia, Middle East, Statelessness
There are roughly 4,000 ‘citizens of nowhere’ in the United States today. They are from Kuwait, Burma, the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and many other places. Legally speaking, however, they don’t belong anywhere.