Protesters in Austin, Tx.Elizabeth Brossa US Senator John McCain is an unlikely ally for President Obama’s sales pitch to launch…
allvoices US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke passionately about the abhorrent act of Syrian forces deploying chemical weapons to…
A series of before-and-after satellite photographs lay bare the destruction caused by the Syrian civil war. The images, released as…
Start your week off right with the latest Humanosphere podcast! We appreciated having Tom Murphy, Humanosphere’s East Coast correspondent, on…
Children of Za’atari campOxfam At its current pace, there will be 3.65 million Syrian refugees by the end of the…
Like Tom 1, I too enjoy maps. This one provides an interactive snapshot of where the World Food Programme is…
The crisis in Syria today compares to massive historic tragedies, Iraq in 1991 and Rwanda, 1994, in terms of the number of people displaced. An additional 2 million Syrians are internally displaced. With as many as 8,000 people leaving Syria every day the UN is concerned that the number of refugees may triple by the end of the year
I’ve known journalist D Parvaz for a decade and may never quite see the world the way she does. But it’s…
Egypt’s Tahrir Square, at the start of the uprisingFlickr, Jonathan Rashad The popular uprising across the Middle East has intensified…
Maybe you’ve heard about it already, but former Seattle PI reporter and columnist Dorothy Parvaz went missing in Syria weeks…