Since the creation of the Ken and Darcy Bacon Center for the Study of Climate Displacement, I've thought about how displacement caused by climate chan...
Lee Bycel | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
Why did I spend Rosh Hashanah in Darfuri refugee camps in Eastern Chad? Why would a rabbi welcome the Jewish New Year in a place where there are no Jews?
Alex Thurston | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Westerners must do more than sympathize with Africans. We must seek to understand the causes of their predicaments: a deadly intersection of climate change, war, and displacement.
Refugees International | Refugees International | Posted 07.25.2009 | Home
When my colleague Erin Weir and I visited refugee camps in eastern Chad this past May, we heard repeated concerns of child recruitment by armed groups...
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 06.22.2009 | World
India successfully coordinated an election involving 700 million participants. Now, it needs to put that effort into bringing them water.
Huffington Post | Kelly van der Kwast | Posted 05.22.2009 | World
Climate change might be inevitable, but according to an Oxfam report, the number of people who die and are made destitute due to ensuing natural disas...
Monika Kalra Varma | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
The U.S. has an opportunity to lead the international community beyond the band-aid solutions of the past to work to avert disaster, but the window is closing.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment
George Clooney filmed a personal videoblog ("the Clooney cam") during a trip he took to Chad with NBC and some of the footage is now online, from a ba...
New York Times | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 03.25.2009 | World
So I'm bunking with George Clooney in a little room in a guest house here in eastern Chad, near Darfur in Sudan. We each have a mattress on the floor,...
Daily Nightly | Ann Curry | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media
SOMEWHERE IN CHAD -- Our NBC News team has landed in Africa and is again heading to the edge of Darfur, gearing up to report a pivotal moment in this ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 02.15.2009 | World
Just two weeks ago, in a habeas corpus case in a Washington D.C. court, Judge Richard Leon turned the clock back to January 11, 2002 (the day Guantán...
Jirair Ratevosian | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
There is no question that Bashir has earned his day in Court. But the world must take Bashir's threats of "more violence and blood in Darfur" seriously and prepare accordingly.
Mia Farrow | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
As long as we are more concerned about protecting the interests of governments and businesses than protecting people from needless suffering and death, tragedies like those in Darfur and Chad will continue.
ABC News | KIRIT RADIA | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Fighting raged on for a third day Monday in Chad's capital, N'Djamena, as rebels sought to take control of the oil-rich African nation. Gunfire and e...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
George Clooney travelled to Chad on Tuesday as a U.N. "messenger of peace" after spending time in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, U.N. sources said. ...
Refugees International | Refugees International | Posted 10.09.2009 | Home