by Brent Hamoud | Jun 1, 2018 | Opinion
Human displacement is a faith dilemma. As I discussed previously, the Bible at no point diminishes the physical, psychological and spiritual severity of being “out of place” but rather validates it as a predicament par excellence. Scripture may contain the...
by Brent Hamoud | May 31, 2018 | Opinion
We tend to put faces on unfortunate things. It is not a good practice, but we do it anyways. Famine has African faces, terrorism Muslim faces, the drug trade Latino faces, and on it goes. So it is with human displacement where the faces of Syrians, Palestinians and...
by Gordon King | Dec 8, 2017 | Opinion
Stateless people are deprived of a nationality. They have been described as living ghosts who inhabit the world. The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) estimates that 15 million people in the world are stateless. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 16, 2017 | News
Minority groups currently make up more than three-quarters of the world’s stateless population, according to a new United Nations report released on Nov. 3. The U.N.’s 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons established the formal...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 23, 2017 | News
The number of displaced persons increased by 300,000 in 2016, bringing the global total to 65.6 million, according to the United Nation’s annual “Global Trends” report. This record level of displacement results from persecution, conflict, violence or...