By Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams 17 October 2018 WASHINGTON (NBC News) – A caravan of migrants fleeing Honduras has grown to 4,000 and the Mexican government has sent an additional 500 federal police to its border with Guatemala in anticipation of their arrival, according to U.S. government documents obtained by NBC News.Part of the […]
By John Wagner 16 October 2018 (The Washington Post) – President Trump on Tuesday offered a fresh threat to cut off aid to Honduras if a large caravan of migrants continues heading toward the United States. “The United States has strongly informed the President of Honduras that if the large Caravan of people heading to […]
14 September 2018 (UN News) – While health, education, and income levels have improved overall across the globe, “wide inequalities” both among and within countries, are casting a shadow on sustained human development, a new United Nations report shows.Looking at the widening gap in real terms, a child born in Norway today – the country […]
By Scott Solomon 7 September 2018 (NBC News) – As climate change brings rising temperatures, droughts, shifting patterns of precipitation, and longer growing seasons, plants and animals are evolving to keep pace.Biologists have observed squirrels and salmon developing at an accelerated pace, causing them to reproduce at a younger age. Earlier summers have caused some […]
WASHINGTON, 19 March 2018 (World Bank) – The worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see over 140 million people move within their countries’ borders by 2050, creating a looming human crisis and threatening the development process, a new World Bank Group report finds But with concerted action […]
By Morgan Winsor 20 June 2018 (ABC News) – Record high numbers of men, women, and children were driven from their homes across the world last year due to war, violence, and persecution, according to a new report by the United Nations’ refugee agency. The UNHCR’s annual Global Trends study found that a staggering 68.5 […]
LONDON, 6 June 2018 (IEP) – The 12th edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) report, produced by the international think-tank the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), revealed that the world is less peaceful today than at any time in the last decade. The 2018 GPI reveals a world in which the tensions, […]
By Franco Ordonez 13 June 2018 WASHINGTON (McClatchy) – The Trump administration is looking to build tent cities at military posts around Texas to shelter the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children being held in detention. The Department of Health and Human Services will visit Fort Bliss, a sprawling Army base near El Paso in […]
By Luke Darby 25 May 2018 (GQ) – The Trump administration called immigrant children future criminals on the same day Border Patrol was accused of sexually and physically abusing child detainees.In April of 2017, when Donald Trump ordered his first missile strike in Syria, the president said that he was moved by the images of […]
By Delphine Schrank; editing by Julia Love and Phil Berlowitz 4 May 2018 (Reuters) – Seventy men, women and children poured through a U.S. port of entry early Friday to seek asylum, the largest single group yet accepted by U.S. officials from the caravan of Central American migrants that enraged President Donald Trump. Fleeing Honduras, […]
