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For 2024, independent ratings and major lists point to a small group of international relief charities reporting exceptionally high program-to-expense ratios, with Direct Relief singled out by Forbes ...
Available reporting and humanitarian briefs do not provide a single, verifiable count of how many children in Gaza have been orphaned by the conflict; . Official tallies of child deaths vary—Gaza’s he...
Somali refugee arrivals to the United States began in earnest around 1990 , and placement of refugees inside the U.S. is administratively handled by national resettlement agencies and their local affi...
Several types of organizations publish global “watchlists”: civil-society monitors like CIVICUS’s Monitor Watchlist that rate civic space and recently added the U.S. to its March 2025 list ; internati...
Save the scale: roughly 30.4 million people in Sudan required urgent assistance in 2025, about half of them children, and UNICEF sought about US$1 billion to reach 13.1 million people including 8.7 mi...
Refugee resettlement destinations are set through a combination of federal oversight (State, DHS, HHS) and operational decisions by ten national resettlement agencies under State Department agreements...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implements and enforces core elements of President Biden’s border strategy — notably the June 2024 “Securing the Border” proclamation (212(f)) and accompanyin...
The Biden administration's border policies have produced a : refugee admissions increased substantially—reaching a three-decade high in FY2024—while asylum access at the southern border has been narro...
Reporting shows a mix of federal, state, local and nonprofit actors commonly participate in high-profile rescues: FEMA funds and oversees 28 Urban Search & Rescue task forces such as California Task F...
Official investigations and court filings in 2025 found that abrupt executive actions—an executive order suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) and rapid stop-work orders—plus the imme...
Official investigations of refugee-resettlement failures and misconduct routinely identify systemic capacity shortfalls, policy-driven suspensions and reviews, and uneven implementation by national an...
International humanitarian groups repeatedly warned of a “dire humanitarian collapse” in Gaza and called for sustained, unimpeded access and an immediate ceasefire; major actors including MSF, the ICR...
NG institutions and NGOs have reacted to EU asylum reforms with a mix of guarded engagement and sharp criticism: UNHCR urges rights-based implementation and safeguards like legal aid and appeal protec...
The Trump administration’s return to the White House in 2025 immediately tightened asylum access at the southern border, including shutting down CBP One appointments and closing ports of entry to many...