EU pays price for lack of migration planning

Refugees and migrants line up to board a night ferry from the Greek island of Kos to Athens.
© socrates baltagiannis/UNHCR

 
by kristy siegfried

(IRIN) OXFORD, August19, 2015 - Migrant arrivals to Europe in 2015 were widely expected to surpass the record levels reached in 2014, as conflicts in Syria and elsewhere raged on. But the staggering number of sea arrivals to Greece in recent weeks appears to have taken many by surprise.

Displaced CAR youths in Chad desperate for school

A volunteer teacher holds a class under the trees in Doyaba transit camp in Sarh, southern Chad, May 2014. Some 3,200 primary and pre-primary school age children are enrolled in the school, set up by displaced teachers from CAR.

photo: gnata salomon yngamaye/UNICEF©

 
(IRIN) DOYABA/SIDDHO/N’DJAMENA, May 27, 2014 - Some 40,900 children and thousands more youths displaced by the violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) are stuck in transit camps in southern Chad with no formal school to attend, few to no training opportunities, and no jobs, leaving them with no sense of what the future will bring.

Drug policy shift no panacea for victims of the war

Mexican woman points gun in light of showing no fear in order to protect herself in the midst of the drug war in her region.  photo: nacho betancourt©
 
(IRIN) NEW YORK, May 9, 2014 - Easing up on drug prohibition will not solve the plight of the thousands of people displaced by the drug wars in Colombia, Mexico and other countries.