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

A campaign in 2019 to celebrate Black British History involved the public voting and a panel of experts finalising a list of 100 Great Black Britons. This blog post will give a brief overview of four of them. Mary Seacole was born in Jamaica in 1805, when it was a British colony, to a Scottish officer in the British Army and a Jamaican boarding house keeper and healer. Seacole learned these skills from her mother, and developed them on her travels in tropical climates as a yo

VAWG stands for Violence Against Women and Girls, and refers to any form of violence disproportionately perpetrated by men against women...

People seeking asylum in the UK are banned from working until a year after their claim has been submitted. Even then, they can only apply...

A ‘returnee’ is a refugee who has returned to their country of origin, or an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) who has returned to their...

This blog post will provide a brief overview of what it means to be an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) and how this compares to being a...

40% of all displaced people are children, despite children making up under 1/3 of the world’s population. There are various reasons for...

Health and healthcare can look very different for refugees, in comparison to people who are not displaced, and this blog post will...

INTRODUCTION In a digitalized and interconnected global learning setting, the promotion of diversity, inclusivity, and effective...

On Friday 7th June, leading figures from seven of the main UK political parties debated a variety of issues on live TV that people should...

This blog post provides a very brief summary of the history of refugees between the early 20th Century and the modern day (a previous...

Although any person of any gender can be a refugee, this already awful experience can be made even worse simply by being a woman. This...

Even though migration has been a longstanding historical phenomenon, recent years have witnessed an unparalleled surge in refugees,...

We have mentioned on a few occasions recently that the 1951 Refugee Convention is often referred to as ‘the cornerstone of refugee...

This blog post provides a very brief summary of the history of refugees between ancient times and the early 20th Century. It includes...

On 14th June, we posted about Micro Rainbow, an organisation that helps lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI)...

Yesterday marked 75 years since the Empire Windrush ship arrived in Essex. This is one of the earliest and largest examples of people...

With 84% of the world’s population identifying as religious (Hackett & McClendon), the teachings of religious texts should naturally have...

Ke Huy Quan's Speech at the Oscars 2023 At the 95th Academy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles this week, Everything Everywhere All at Once...

The Kurds are an ethnic group of people originally from a West Asian territory called Kurdistan which is made up of parts of Turkey,...