displacement
A Transgender Activist Was Abducted and Raped Before a Climate March, Organizers Say
“She is so frightened that she does not want to register an official police complaint. In fact, she is barely speaking to anyone.”
UN Declares That Climate Change Refugees Can’t Be Sent Back to Their Home Countries
Considering tens of millions of people in poorer countries could be displaced by climate change in just a few decades, this is a landmark decision.
How Miami Locals Are Dealing with the City's Rent Crisis
Here's how people can actually afford to live in Florida's most happening city.
Rohingya Refugees are Rushing to Escape Bangladesh's Monsoon Season
Experts fear a return of the kind of desperation that fed the 2015 boat crisis as the storms hit Bangladesh's coast.
United Nations report blasts Canada for destruction of historic black community
UN report recommends apology, reparations, monuments to African Canadians for slavery and displacement.
Activists Are Still Fighting for Justice for the Grenfell Tower Fire
Months after the tragedy, organizers are helping the still-displaced Grenfell residents get back on their feet.
How Grenfell Survivors Are Organizing in the Wake of a Tragedy
Lawmakers are dragging their feet and a wounded community is pissed about it.
A Nigerian Fishing Community Just Fought Gentrification and Won
Lagos state officials claimed the waterfront neighborhood was an environmental hazard.
The Business of Gentrification (Business of Life Season 2, Episode 6)
Baratunde Thurston, Lance Freeman, and John Tierney discuss the money behind gentrification.
Intimate Portraits of the Thousands of Haitian Refugees Stranded in Tijuana
About 3,500 Haitians are waiting to cross the border into the US.
Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims Look to the Internet for Justice
The Rohingya are fighting state-sponsored media with their own independent channels of communication.
The Crazy, Failed Idea of Creating a Jewish State in Russia
Birobidzhan was a small region near the Chinese border in Russian that was established as the world's first autonomous Jewish region in the early 1930s. It didn't last long. Author Masha Gessen discusses the strange history of the would-be territory.