Poets and models star at world’s first refugee camp TEDx event in Kenya
Thomson Reuters Foundation Refugees turned poets, film-makers, models and teachers sought to shatter stereotypes and inspire a global audience on Saturday by sharing their stories of perseverance through suffering in the world’s first TEDx event to be hosted in a refugee camp. TEDx events – devoted to spreading ideas through short presentations covering everything from […]
HOUSING: WITH COMMUNITY LOANS, MANILA SLUM DWELLERS BUILD HOMES
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how communities in The Philippines are finding solutions to accommodation shortfalls…
Convert in Sweden tells of ‘nightmares every night’ amid fears of deportation and Iranian jail
World Watch Monitor An asylum-seeker stuck in legal limbo in Sweden has said she has “nightmares every night” that police are following her in order to arrest her and deport her to Iran, where her conversion to Christianity could land her in prison. Aideen Strandsson, 37, who took a Swedish surname when she arrived in […]