Design For Change – Empowering Children Empowering refugee children is crucial to advance their social skills and support their integration in their host communities. HOM partnered with the organisation Design For Change, to receive training on how to promotes children’s super-powers. When working with refugee students belonging to a Portuguese Secondary School class, we applied…
A “Feminist War” that Subjugates Women:the Western Invasion of Afghanistan Academic EssaySubmitted to The London School of Economics for theMSc in Human Rights with Politics by Rosário Frada Introduction The world has witnessed foreign military interventions, namely by the West, in the name of human rights. As the US prepared to militarily invade Afghanistan following…
The International Criminal Court: importance in action or on paper? The International Criminal Court appears in 2002 as the first international permanent court specialized in criminal matters, showing an evident concern with the of Human Rights. Nonetheless, can we actually say this is the best course of action? Created in 2002 with the aim of defending…
Around the World:What’s Going On in Nigeria? This is a part of our series “Around the World”, where we analyse political, social and economic issues from countries often times set aside on the news. For more than 13 years, people in the north-eastern states of Nigeria, particularly Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, have endured through extreme…
Has ‘humanitarian space’contracted or expanded? Academic EssaySubmitted to The London School of Economics for theMSc in Human Rights with Politics by Rosário Frada Introduction To mitigate deaths at sea, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) conduct Search and Rescue (SAR) activities, rescuing 110,000 forced migrants in the Central Mediterranean Sea between 2015 and 2017 (Guardia Costiera, 2017). According…
Ukraine-Russia:How Are Countries Supporting Refugees? Since the beginning of the conflict, almost 6.5 million people are internally displaced, in addition to almost 3.9 million people who have left Ukraine and crossed into neighboring countries. Learn specific responses to this crisis by country: Hungary According to the UN, as of 29th of March, 364,804 people have…