“Finding Refuge” by 60 Minutes Puts the Refugee Crisis in Focus #SyrianRefugees #Resettlement
The civil war in Syria has raged on for over five years, but many Americans only began to learn about[…]
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The 9/11 Case: You Get What You Get, and You Don’t Get Upset #Gitmo #Detainees
Last week I traveled to Guantanamo Bay for the second time this year to observe a week of pretrial hearings[…]
Read moreTop Texas Officials Drop Lawsuit Over Syrian Refugees #ResettlementRefugees #Texas
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton withdrew his lawsuit against the U.S. government in a move that may signal the end[…]
Read moreHungary Newspaper Closure Another Step in Orban’s Illiberal Democracy #FreedomLost
Reports indicate that the main left-leaning opposition newspaper in Hungary was shut down. While the official line is that the[…]
Read moreAn Act of Strength, Not of Weakness: John Oliver on Closing Gitmo #HumanRights #Gitmo
In an election cycle as dirty as this one, sometimes it takes a comedian to sift through slung mud to[…]
Read moreNo More “Nightmare Speculation:” Federal Court Strikes Down Indiana Anti-Syrian Refugee Policy #Refugees #HumanRights
On October 3rd, judges of the 7th Circuit Court dealt a major blow to states trying to buck the federal[…]
Read moreFallout from Revelations of Slavery in Hawaii Fishing Industry #Slavery #UnitedStates
AP recently reported on suspected labor exploitation in Hawaii’s multi-million-dollar fishing industry, prompting a robust response from advocacy organizations, businesses,[…]
Read moreThe Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Greenhouse for Human Trafficking #Refugees #HumanTrafficking
Jordan has the third largest population of Syrian refugees in the world, with 635,000 registered Syrian refugees in the country.[…]
Read moreWhy Religion Matters: Fighting Intolerance with Broad Coalitions #ReligiousCommunities
This week I attended #RadCon, a Religion and Diplomacy Conference hosted by the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global[…]
Read moreAnti-Immigrant Platform Leads German Far-Right Party to Berlin’s State Parliament #HistoryRepeats
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), continued to lose voters in the September 18 German state[…]
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