South Sudan’s standoff [program] When South Sudan became a country in 2011, there was a lot of optimism in a nation where people had endured decades of conflict to win independence...
An American in Seoul helps North Korean refugees Casey Lartigue Jr. took an unusual path to helping run an organization that aids North Korean refugees. After a stint teaching English in South...
North Korea women’s rights North Korea’s human rights record is among the worst in the world. But women in North Korea face particular challenges. North Korea is a...
Rohingya crisis in Myanmar after attacks Just two years ago, once-isolated Myanmar seemed firmly on a new course. Longtime opposition Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel laureate and Myanmar state...
Yemen activist Thabet haunted by war’s victims "I made a promise to a child that I would save him and I couldn't." The war in Yemen that Fadia Thabet left behind isn't getting...
Turkey’s dying democracy Fifteen years ago, Turkey was the great democratic beacon of the Islamic world. Back then Turkey’s current President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was...
Documenting starvation in South Sudan "Something has to be done about this." One day in May of last year, Spanish photographer Albert Gonzalez Farran was taking pictures of...
Shining a light on Rohingya refugees "It is probably the worst kind of habitat a human can live in." When she was 11, Hasina Begum was shot in the back. She had found herself in the...
Kenya errs in closing massive refugee camp, says ex-resident Kenya's effort to close the world's largest refugee camp after a quarter-century of operation would send hundreds of thousands of people back to...
Closing the world’s largest refugee camp Picture a city of about 300,000 people - something the size of Tampa, Fla. or Riverside, Calif. Now picture all of those people in this city being...
