Is it time to re-think financing of humanitarian crises?
OPINION | MANUEL CARBALLO As we move into 2018, the number of people being forced from their communities and countries is growing. Rarely have we seen so many families split up, lives […]
Category Archives: forced migration
Climate Change and Statelesness
Following the somewhat disheartening conclusion of the Rio +20 conference, climate change has been making headlines over the past few weeks through a widely circulated Rolling Stone article and a […]
The Forced Displacement of The Roma: from Sarkozy to Gilles Bourdouleix
By Professor Manuel Carballo Nicholas Sarkozy (2010): The Roma have long been a pariah people. Poorly understood, highly suspect, and the subject of pervasive myths, the Roma of Europe have been […]
World Refugee Day 2012
Copyright 2011, UNHCR As the world celebrates yet another Refugee Day it is important that we remind ourselves that the number of people being forcibly displaced across borders as well […]
Shooting Europe in the Foot: Europe’s Migration Migraine
Thomas Samson/Reuters The presidential campaign in France has predictably focused, once again, on the issue of migration. Migrants represent approximately 11% of the French population. Many, if not most, have […]
The Right To A Healthy Life: The Growing Problem of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
©2012 Stock Connection and World of Stock. Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a non-communicable disease caused by glucose intolerance. Despite the fact that it can pose serious threats to pregnant […]
Climate Change: A health hazard?
In November 2011, a group of ministers and senior representatives of governments from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific met in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to discuss the threat […]
Health G20 : Promoting Health and Development on the G20’s Agenda
Health G20 has been created by the International Centre for Migration, Health and Development in Geneva, Switzerland and the Dasman Diabetes Institute in association with Pro-Brook Publishing. The ICMHD Executive Director, Dr Manuel Carballo, […]
Asylum seeking: Seeing the positive
Asylum seeking is not new, and is in principle governed by well established and ratified international laws and principles. People have been fleeing persecutions of one kind or another for […]
Pakistan: Forced Displacement and Climate Change
Pakistan: Forced Displacement and Climate Change Manuel Carballo In the space of little more than 3 weeks, more than 5 million people in Pakistan have been displaced from their homes, […]
