Millions of refugees, already displaced by political persecution and violent conflict, now face yet another threat to survival: the climate crisis. As U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo ...
BE that as it may, climate refugees are not covered by the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) for the reason that climate refugees are not fleeing persecution on account of race, ...
As the world’s eyes turn to Brazil for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), Austin-based Texas Impact/Texas Interfaith Power & Light is sending dispatches from the conference to the ...
Few countries in the world are considered more vulnerable to the impact of rising sea levels and climate change than Bangladesh, a nation of 175 million people squeezed into a landmass the size of ...
Europe’s most important court has ruled that protection from climate change is a human right. The judgment will be put to the test in Britain by a climate change refugee who lost his cliff top home to ...
A Sept. 4th New York Times article claimed that migrants on the Texas border were dying from the effects of climate change. The story said extreme temperatures contributed to the deaths of 10 people, ...
The highest disaster-related displacements in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2022 were recorded by Nigeria, which was also its highest number in a decade. The southern state of Bayelsa faced half of these ...
LONDON, Nov 30 (UNHCR) - A dress made from the heavy fabric of a tent used to shelter refugees in Jordan shimmers unexpectedly into life at the busy London train station, sparkling with data provided ...