Our very first ‘A Focus On…’ post was regarding the Venezuela situation. A few years on and the statistics we shared then have worsened, with now nearly 7.9 million refugees and migrants as a result of the issues there. This blog post will include more detail on the overview provided previously, and also cover developments since then. The issues in Venezuela originated with the Bolivarian Revolution, which began in the early 1990s, evolved over the past few decades, and conti

Imperialism is a policy of extending a country's power and influence through methods such as colonisation, which is ‘the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area’. By the early 20th Century, a period of British imperialism that began in the late 16th Century under Queen Elizabeth I had developed into the largest empire in history: the British Empire. Like other rulers throughout history, Elizabeth I was of course prima

This blog post will be on the topic of ‘ICE’, which stands for the ‘Immigration and Customs Enforcement’ in the United States, and is one of the law enforcement agencies of the national government. ICE has been around for more than two decades, but has become more prominent in the news in recent years due to its involvement in an increasing number of controversies. In addition, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of July 2025 made ICE the largest and most well-funded law enforceme

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organisation, meaning it was established by a legally binding written agreement between multiple states and has its own legal personality. One of its subsidiary agencies is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and this ‘works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home’. It was established in 1950, and the headquarters are in G