Embera Indigenous children play where thousands of Embera — displaced by years of internal armed conflict and precarious living conditions in the country’s central western region — have taken shelter after traveling to Bogota, Colombia in November 2024.
(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Media coverage often focuses on those fleeing their country as refugees, while internally displaced people remain less visible and beholden to national governments.
In this October 2011 photo, members of the Royal New Zealand defense force pump sea water into holding tanks ready to be used by the desalination plant in Funafuti, Tuvalu, South Pacific. The atolls of Tuvalu are at grave risk due to rising sea levels and contaminated ground water.
AP Photo/Alastair Grant
A recent ruling by the UN’s Human Rights Committee recognized that climate refugees do exist, and acknowledged a legal basis for protecting them when their lives are threatened by climate change.
Filippo Grandi urged an immediate end to Australia’s offshore processing of refugees.
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