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Degree in Modern History, Milan State University, Italy. Over 18 years' experience in refugee and humanitarian work including 11 years managing humanitarian programmes worldwide for UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Expertise and interests: international relations, history, literature, art, films.
Schools closed, exams cancelled: COVID-19 has played havoc with children’s education worldwide. According to UN figures, around 1.6 billion learners across the world, including millions o...
• Eighty million displaced people worldwide are among those most at risk during the coronavirus pandemic.
Carmen es una de los muchos héroes del coronavirus. Médica que trabaja como parte de un equipo de servicio de ambulancias, ha estado en turnos de 24 horas para llegar a las personas en ca...
Carmen is one of the many coronavirus heroes. A doctor working as part of an ambulance service team, she has been on 24-hour shifts to reach people at home who suspect they have the virus...
Nowadays, making an investment – whether in shares, bonds, property, gold, lottery tickets, or the latest startup – is quick and easy. But when it comes to investments in people, the divi...
The scale of a humanitarian crisis is often expressed in statistics, but it is better measured in the lives and fates of real people.
The world’s growing refugee crisis is not only about numbers. It is also about time.
In January last year, I visited Jordan and Lebanon, just days after becoming head of the UN Refugee Agency. There I saw for myself the consequences of the world’s largest refugee crisis.
They were fresh off the boat – a group of Syrian refugees who had fled their homes, travelled halfway across Turkey and placed their lives in the hands of a gang of people smugglers. But ...
Recién desembarcado, un grupo de refugiados sirios que habían huido de sus hogares y atravesado media Turquía para poner sus vidas en manos de una banda dedicada al contrabando de persona...
In 2015, when more than a million refugees and migrants arrived on European shores, the reaction in many countries quickly turned to tightening border controls and erecting fences. Public...
