Refugees International remains alarmed by the significant budget cuts proposed in the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget.
Refugees International Dismayed by U.S. Decision to End TPS Designation for Honduras
Refugees International is dismayed by Friday’s decision by the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation for Honduras.
RI Urged Senate Committee to Ensure Secretary of State Nominee Pompeo Address Key Concerns Before Confirmation Vote
Any individual confirmed for the position of Secretary of State must be prepared to…endorse the continuation of a vibrant U.S. refugee resettlement program.
A Chance to End the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Yemen
As President Donald Trump meets with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman tomorrow, Refugees International calls upon the president to press for an end to the humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen.
Letter to Secretary Tillerson on the State Department’s Annual Human Rights Report
We are writing to you as human rights, health, and development organizations to raise our deep concern about news that the State Department’s annual Human Rights Report will no longer highlight the full range of abuses and human rights violations experienced most especially by women, girls, LGBTQI people, and other marginalized peoples around the world.
The Trump-Turnbull Meeting and Australia’s “Pacific Solution” for Refugees
Refugees International welcomes the decision of the Trump administration to resettle refugees transferred by the Australian government into detention in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
Putting Lives at Risk: Protection Failures Affecting Hondurans and Salvadorans Deported from the United States and Mexico
Both the United States and Mexico are deporting individuals with significant protection needs back to Honduras and El Salvador
RI Welcomes the Senate Committee Passage of the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act
Refugees International welcomes the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passage of S.2060, the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act.
Embracing Refugees by Cultivating New Connections
In an age of travel bans and closing borders, communities across the United States continue to welcome recently arrived refugees into their neighborhoods. As a student at Washington University in St. Louis, a city troubled by economic disparity and home to an often isolated resettled refugee population, it was hard not to notice how insulated my campus was from its surrounding neighborhoods. I wanted to change that.
Through Work, Refugees Rebuild Their Lives
The first time I ordered food from Foodhini, a Washington D.C.-based start-up that delivers meals cooked by refugee and immigrant chefs, I chose dishes prepared by Syrian Chef Majed. The incredible sautéed okra and baked chicken were accompanied by a note with Majed’s story: how he fled from Syria to Jordan before being resettled in the United States, and how he learned to cook from his mother back in Syria.