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USCRI reflects on the life and papacy that Pope Francis dedicated to the world’s most marginalized people, including refugees and migrants.
Throughout his 12-year papacy, Pope Francis brought awareness to multiple facets of forcible displacement. He continually showed support for displaced populations. In February 2016, he delivered mass at the U.S.-Mexico border and prayed for migrants who died on their harrowing journeys. Both in 2016 and 2021, he visited the island of Lesbos, Greece, to meet with individuals waiting for relief in a refugee camp.
“Pope Francis made refugees and migrants a priority during his papacy, and he urged world leaders to do the same. Today, we honor the compassion that he showed to forcibly displaced people and encourage our leaders and all of us to show that same strength and compassion,” said USCRI President and CEO Eskinder Negash.
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** Sudan’s War, the World’s Silence
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April 15 marked two years since war began in Sudan, plunging the country into one of the world’s most devastating and overlooked humanitarian crises. What began on April 15, 2023, as clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has spiraled into an unabating war that has created the largest displacement crisis in the world.
Once-bustling cities and communities now lie in ruins. Civilians have been killed in their homes, attacked in hospitals, starved, and subjected to sexual violence—used as a weapon of war. Over 11 million people are now displaced in Sudan, and 3.5 million more have fled across borders. More than half of those displaced are children—making Sudan the largest child displacement crisis in the world.
“The war in Sudan is not just a catastrophe for its people—it is a global failure of action, accountability, and humanity,” said USCRI President and CEO Eskinder Negash. “The international community’s response has been shamefully inadequate, and political interests have derailed peace efforts.”
Click the button below to read the full statement from USCRI on the second anniversary of the war in Sudan.
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** Climate Solutions in Refugee Camps
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Last year was the hottest year on record on our planet. This unprecedented warming and extreme climate events, like high floods, extreme drought, and raging wildfires, forced people out of their homes and displaced communities.
Refugee camps are often in isolated locations that are vulnerable to climate impacts, such as drought, flooding, landslides, extreme heat, and extreme cold. These camps are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, but are also home to powerful climate solutions led by displaced communities themselves.
Click the button below to read more about refugee-led climate action, such as solar panels in Kenya, tree planting in Uganda, and sustainable cookstoves in Cameroon.
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** What is Climate Migration?
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In 2024, extreme weather events forced more than 800,000 people from their homes—the highest year on record. Climate-related environmental disasters are becoming only more common.
Despite this mounting crisis, there remains no reliable humanitarian immigration pathway for people seeking safety from environmental disaster.
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** Timeline: Cameroon & the “Anglophone Crisis”
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Since 2016, people in Cameroon have suffered through violent clashes between governmental security forces and separatist armed groups in what is known as the “Anglophone crisis.”
The crisis is the result of harmful colonial legacies and political struggle between the Francophone majority and the Anglophone minority. Violence has largely affected populations in Anglophone-majority North West and South West regions. Attacks on civilians and instability have caused over 900,000 people to flee internally and 60,000 people to flee abroad.
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