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June 2, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Deadly Week in the Mediterranean

Migrants are seen on a capsizing boat before a rescue operation by Italian navy ships "Bettica" and "Bergamini" off the coast of Libya in this handout picture released by the Italian Marina Militare on May 25, 2016.

May 31, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Nauru Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct, Suicide

May 30, 2016 News Release

Sudan: Hundreds Deported to Likely Abuse

Eritrean refugees in Sudan’s Shagarab refugee camp

May 27, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: ISIS Advance Traps 165,000 Syrians at Closed Turkish Border

At Tal Abyad –Akçakale border crossing, in June 2015, Turkish border guards manning Turkey’s closed border watched ISIS fighters order displaced Syrian civilians back from the border.

May 26, 2016 Interview

Nothing to Go Back to – From Kenya’s Vast Refugee Camp

An aerial view shows makeshift shelters at the Dagahaley camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border in Garissa County, Kenya. Photo taken April 2011.

May 26, 2016 Commentary

Displaced and Disabled: ‘Don’t Leave Us Behind’

A Syrian man with one leg walks through the deserted Greek island of Pasas after he arrived with others from Turkey.

May 24, 2016 News Release

Vietnam: Drop Charges Against Boat Returnees

Citizens Prosecuted for Leaving Country After Australia Forcibly Returns Them

May 23, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Dignity at Stake for Refugees with Disabilities in Greece

Mud covers the deflated wheel of an Iraqi refugee’s wheelchair outside his tent at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 17, 2016.

May 20, 2016 News Release

UN: Press Turkey to Open Border

Summit Should Tackle Responsibility for Refugees

A border guard manning Turkey’s closed border with Syria patrols near the Turkish village of Guvecci, February 7, 2016.

May 19, 2016 Report

Leave No One Behind

Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Emergencies

Safi, 30, (right) a Syrian refugee from Aleppo, walks on highway M1 near Budapest, Hungary in an attempt to reach Vienna, Austria by foot.

May 19, 2016 Report

Greece: Refugee “Hotspots” Unsafe, Unsanitary

Women, Children Fearful, Unprotected; Lack Basic Shelter

May 17, 2016 Commentary

EU plans for Libya risk crossing migration 'red lines'

May 16, 2016 Commentary

War is No Excuse for Depriving Children with Disabilities of an Education

May 11, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Scapegoating Refugees in Kenya

Newly-arrived refugees run away from a cloud of dust at the Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, near Kenya's border with Somalia in Garissa County, Kenya, July 16, 2011.

May 10, 2016 Commentary

Words of Praise, Deadly Deeds: Turkey’s Treatment of Refugees

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