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Humanitarian and Displacement Implications of the U.S./Israel-Iran War - Refugees International This event will explore the potential humanitarian and displacement implications of a U.S./Israel–Iran conflict.

🚨EVENT: As tensions involving #Iran raise the risk of a wider regional war, the humanitarian consequences for civilians and displaced populations could be profound.

This week, hear from our experts about these implications. RSVP today.
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Artwork by Reem Yassouf. Bedtime Story, 2016

🎉This spring, join us at our 2026 Advocacy Awards!

We are pleased to honor @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social, mayor of #Minneapolis, and Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian-American emergency medicine physician who served in #Gaza.

🔗 Secure your spot today!
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How Cruel Migration Policies Hurt People. February 2026. Logos of AFSC, Casa Violeta, CHIRLA Mexico, Adelante CIMITRA, CDH Fray Matias, GMIES, Refugees International, Servicio Jesuita para Migrante. “Know your Rights” Workshop for youth and migrant people, carried out at the border wall between Mexico and the U.S., Tijuana, Mexico, 2025. Credit: AFSC.

🚨 Our partner organizations in Latin America interviewed 364 migrants in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica. Many were deported from the United States.

Their testimonies reveal the effects of cruel migration policies on their livelihoods and wellbeing. Read more
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Protection, Not Concession: Mexico’s Responsibility to Third Country Nationals Deported by the United States - Refugees International The United States is deporting thousands of third country nationals to Mexico using coercive tactics, including enforced disappearances.

🚨The United States is deporting thousands of third country nationals to #Mexico using coercive tactics that violate U.S. law and circumvent limits on who Mexico accepts.

As this cruelty persists, the Mexican government can do more to mitigate harm ⬇️
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Death of Rohingya Refugee After Abandonment by CBP Requires Investigation - Refugees International We are saddened by the needless death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee who had been detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

Refugees International is saddened by the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee who had been detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents.

CBP's actions must be thoroughly investigated. Statement from @endgenocidedan.bsky.social
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Incredibly important decision, yet one the Supreme Court already intervened on in the shadow docket. There’s a decent chance this makes it to the Supreme Court next term.

Expansion of Global Gag Rule Will Have Deadly Consequences for Women and Girls - Refugees International The expansion of the Global Gag Rule will no doubt have deadly consequences for women and girls around the world.

🚨The expansion of the Global Gag Rule will have deadly consequences for women & girls globally.

It will lead to clinic closures, service disruptions, and the loss of trusted health providers, particularly in humanitarian and conflict-affected settings.
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Risk of Renewed War in Tigray With the possibility of renewed fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region, reminders and recommendations for the world to take preventive action.

With the possibility of new fighting in #Tigray, the U.S. and the rest of the world must act now to avoid an even greater cataclysm.

The painful impact of the 2020-2022 war must not be forgotten. Read the latest from Sarah Miller in @justsecurity.org.
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Judgment – #242 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10676) – CourtListener.com Judge Brian E. Murphy: ORDER entered. FINAL JUDGMENT. (MBM) (Entered: 02/25/2026)

Huge decision in DVD case on removals to third countries!

DHS “policy fails to satisfy due process, not least [because] nobody really knows anything about these purported “assurances.”….How can anyone even know for certain that
they exist?”

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DHS confirms ICE agent fatally shot US citizen in 2025 Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.

DHS is only now admitting that one of their agents shot and killed 23-year-old Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen, last March.

Another day, another DHS lie exposed. Congress must rein in this abusive, lawless agency.

Join the Office of International Programs at Colorado State University for an International Symposium keynote presentation from @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social.

🗒️ The End of an Era? Rethinking Aid, Partnership, and Influence Beyond USAID
🕛 March 4, 12:00 pm MT
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Refugees International Condemns DHS Memo Authorizing Detention of Thousands of Lawfully Admitted Refugees - Refugees International The move is historically unprecedented and based on false and hateful distortions of both refugees and U.S. law.

A memo from the Trump admin has authorized the roundup, detention, interrogation, & deportation of thousands of refugees resettled in the U.S.

100,000+ people may be subject to this unprecedented and cruel policy. Our statement @yaelschacher.bsky.social
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Aid and Accountability for Sudanese Refugees in Chad - Refugees International Immediate action is required to keep people alive in the Sudan–Chad corridor, and relief efforts must be combined with accountability.

In December, @qulshtm.bsky.social interviewed survivors who fled El Fasher to neighboring #Chad.

See his recent report on what they told him, the UAE's role in the ongoing atrocities, and what actions are needed to combine relief with accountability.
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A/HRC/61/77: Sudan: Hallmarks of Genocide in El-Fasher - Report of the independent international fact-finding mission for the Sudan (Advance unedited version) SummaryThe Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan (“the Mission”) assesses that the mass killings and related atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces in and around El-Fa...

The UN Fact Finding Mission on Sudan found that the #RSF attacks in El Fasher, Darfur last fall bear the hallmarks of genocide:

"Their consolidation, scale, systematic nature, and cumulative effects may indicate a path to genocide."
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Third Country Deportation Watch Monitoring the human cost of the U.S. government’s forced third country transfer agreements.

In 2025, we joined @humanrightsfirst.org to launch Banished by Bargain: Third Country Deportation Watch.

This tracker monitors U.S. third country transfer agreements, the political and financial motives behind them, and the harms they have caused.

Learn more:
www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

Ranking Member Shaheen, Senators Coons, Murphy, Kaine, Merkley, Booker, Van Hollen, Duckworth and Rosen Publish Major New Report on True Cost of Trump Administration’s Third Country Deportation Deals ... WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Murphy...

Thank you @shaheen.senate.gov @coons.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov @jeffmerkley.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @rosen.senate.gov for this report on the Trump admin's secret deportation deals.
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Aid and Accountability for Sudanese Refugees in Chad - Refugees International Immediate action is required to keep people alive in the Sudan–Chad corridor, and relief efforts must be combined with accountability.

Survivors who fled #ElFasher to Eastern Chad are facing a strained humanitarian response contracting under aid cuts.

Urgent action is needed to keep people alive. Relief efforts must be combined with accountability.

More from @qulshtm.bsky.social.
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In his latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com, @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social looks at the destruction of #USAID — and how the move heralded a dark shift in U.S. values and engagement with the world.

🔗 Read more:
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Managed Deprivation in Gaza Until humanitarian conditions improve, Trump’s Board of Peace doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Until humanitarian conditions improve, Trump’s Board of Peace doesn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Optimistic predictions simply serve to excuse continued Palestinian suffering.

Read the latest from Natasha Hall and Hardin Lang in @foreignpolicy.com
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🚨It's not too late to register for our event: Aid Cuts One Year On

Join Refugees International experts, refugee leaders, and mutual aid leaders to discuss what these cuts have meant in communities around the world.

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One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

“What we can say with confidence is these cuts are already killing people. The scale of that is still hard to fully compile. Places are not collecting data. We’re flying blind.”

@jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social // @cnn.com
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“Women’s Bodies Were the Battleground”: Survivors Left Behind amid Tigray’s Uncertain Peace - Refugees International If fighting resumes in Tigray, women’s bodies will again be part of the battleground.

Internally displaced women in #Tigray, in particular, are living with deep uncertainty and still lack the support they need to recover from the brutal violence many endured during the war.

Some are barely surviving.

Read our report ⬇️
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House Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Meeks Statement on the Resumption of Hostilities in Northern Tigray Washington, D.C. - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued a statement on renewed armed clashes in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region.

Thank you @meeks.house.gov for this critical statement. Powerful actors like the U.S. must ensure that peace remains in #Tigray.
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In scathing ruling, federal judge orders release of Liam Ramos from detention Judge Fred Biery said federal agents were “traumatizing children.”

The judge wrote of ICE actions: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.”

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered that 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be freed from ICE detention.

Families don't belong in detention.

The Journey of a Group of Cuban Deportees Stuck at Guantánamo

The cruel, absurd, wastefulness of this is stunningly sad.

From the great Carol Rosenberg:

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In a Chicago Classroom, a Venezuelan Folk Instrument Inspires Connection YouTube video by Refugees International

The admin has so warped the image of Venezuelans in the U.S.

Important to get a different image out there.

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“No One Cares About Us Anymore”: How U.S. Aid Cuts Have Intensified the Crisis for Women and Girls in Afghanistan - Refugees International The U.S. saw the cost of a rushed military exit in Afghanistan. It is repeating that failure by abandoning the country through humanitarian withdrawal.

A year ago, the Trump admin abruptly shut down USAID and froze U.S. humanitarian aid.

The harm in the wake of these cuts has been widespread. Nowhere has the toll been more stark than in Afghanistan, especially for women and girls. More from Devon Cone
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Aid Cuts One Year On: Local Solutions to Indefensible Harm - Refugees International Join Refugees International experts, refugee leaders, and mutual aid leaders to discuss what these cuts have meant in communities around the world.

EVENT: We're bringing together experts and local aid leaders to discuss what aid cuts have meant in communities worldwide, one year on.

Join us to learn more about
◾️What local leaders have witnessed
◾️How they are they adapting
◾️What must happen now

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Digital Media Officer We at Refugees International are seeking a dynamic and innovative Digital Media Officer to elevate our digital presence and help advance our mission.   The Officer will report to the Vice President of...

We are hiring a Digital Media Officer!

This role is ideal for a social media wiz who thrives at the intersection of creativity, strategy, and social impact—and who can translate complex global issues into engaging digital content.

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