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The Museum of Modern Art will host a new show on the global refugee crisis.

What Design Can Do & IKEA Foundation announce a global design challenge to help refugees. Pre-register now to submit your idea to the Refugee Challenge.

What if media outlets stopped referring to refugees as ‘burdens’ and instead highlighted them as the social and economic actors that they are? Two weeks ago, Ashoka’s Director of Research and Innovation, Adam Lent, argued against labelling refugees as problems and instead as “creative people who are themselves the source of the solutions” to the challenges that the wider crisis is bringing to the fore.ref

The global refugee crisis: humanity’s last call for a culture of sharing and cooperation. The real crisis is not the influx of refugees to Europe per se but a toxic combination of destabilising foreign policy agendas, economic austerity and the rise of right-wing nationalism.

Each day, Demetrios Zois buys two loaves of bread. One is for his family, and one for whoever comes knocking on his door.

Beyond the bureaucracy of the Eurocrats, or the catastrophic mismanagement by the EU of the refugee 'crisis', or the xenophobic rants of the tabloid press, there is another Europe - the real Europe - a continent of Europeans who are compassionate and for whom social justice is not a political slogan but something that is…

As Syria’s cultural heritage continues to be ravaged by conflict, exiled artists in the Zaatari refugee camp recreate historical landmarks as a symbol of resistance

The 22nd till the 24th of April Techfugees Amsterdam-Eindhoven united with Empowerhack and Hack Your Future for a health and education hackathon in Amsterdam at CREA Amsterdam  with an emphasis on the wellbeing of refugee women and girls. Indeed, refugee women and girls represent over half of the re

  The migration issue dominates the European political debate. The influx of migrants, some people say, will break the European welfare system. Any new person coming in is reducing the amount of care that others can get. Care is supposedly a zero-sum game. Is this really the case?

When they started throwing volunteers in jail, it was a sign of things to come. The first five were locked up on smuggling charges after they rescued 51 people from a stranded dinghy the coastguard would not look for. “They treated us like terrorists,” said one, when they were released on bail for €5-10,000 per…

What if media outlets stopped referring to refugees as ‘burdens’ and instead highlighted them as the social and economic actors that they are? Two weeks ago, Ashoka’s Director of Research and Innovation, Adam Lent, argued against labelling refugees as problems and instead as “creative people who are themselves the source of the solutions” to the challenges that the wider crisis is bringing to the fore.ref

Welcome to STARTUP AID’s first weekly blog post. Our goal with these blogs is to spread awareness of our mission, update…

Refugee Crisis communications. by Disaster Tech Lab - Disaster Tech Lab has decided to respond to the growing refugee crisis in the Mediterranean by deploying a team to the Islands between Greece and Turkey. These islands are being flooded by refugees from Syria and Afghanistan with thousands arriving every day. The infrastructure of the island is n...

This is the full text of a letter written by prominent émigrés to ministers in protest over the country’s role in border closures against refugees

John McCallum, the immigration, refugees and citizenship minister, says Canada is on course to welcome 13,000 people fleeing Syria in the next six weeks

Facility in Grande-Synthe will provide shelter, drinking water and sanitation to meet minimum UN humanitarian standards