Category: Camping

Politics is carried out everywhere. Social and protest movements around the world empower people to demand change outside of traditional institutions. The protest camp is a new form of protest that has joined the usual repertoire of social media campaigns, community activism and marches of resistance. Urban protest camps have been a prominent feature of…

My research is focused on the dynamics of refugee camps and their opportunities. Policymakers should encourage entrepreneurship in these camps to help break this cycle of despair and turn it into one of hope and dignity. These initiatives could improve the lives of millions of people who have been displaced due to war, persecution, or…

Truth-telling is a cornerstone of the Uluru Declaration from the Heart. It is easy to say but hard to do. Truth telling is the act of revealing uncomfortable or long-hidden things. Truth-telling is a practice that takes place across the nation (and internationally, including Canada). It brings attention to historical injustices and societal inequalities, which are often difficult to…

The government denies that there is any ethnic group called “Rohingya.” This group is often referred to as “Bengali,” a group of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, despite the fact that the Rohingya people have been living in Rakhine for generations. The government of Myanmar created three categories of citizens under the 1982 Citizenship Law. These were full, associate, and…

He said categorically: “I declare from here the end, the failure, and the collapse and terrorist state of falsehood that terrorist Daesh declared from Mosul,” using Arabic acronyms for ISIS or ISIL. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate that spanned vast areas of northern Iraq and eastern Syria on June 29, 2014. The Iraqi half…

A United Nations employee working on a coca-substitution project in Colombia was kidnapped earlier this week by a dissident FARC faction, just prior to a UN Security Council visit to show support for the country’s peace deal. The challenges of setting up FARC ‘centralisation zones’, which will host guerrillas while they surrender their arms and transition to…

The American Camp Association establishes health and safety standards in the camp industry. The association offers accreditation for camps through onsite inspections and an evaluation of policies and procedures. This accreditation is only available to camps who adhere to recognized standards. The standards cover a wide range of topics, including what the campers are taught and the…

 In developing countries, one in every three girls is married before 18; one in nine is married before 15. If the present trend continues, 150 million girls will be married before their 18th birthday over the next decade. That is an average of 15 million girls each year. Child marriage is a fundamental violation of human rights. According to…

In Bangladesh, there are 32 000 registered refugees located in two camps primarily in Cox’s Bazar District bordering eastern Rakhine state. An additional 200,000-500,000 unregistered refugees live in makeshift camps there with locals. After facing a constant flow of Rohingya refugees for more than two decades, the Bangladesh government now plans to relocate the refugees to a remote…

He was sent to Fossoli as a Jew. This camp gathered all of the different categories of people who were no longer welcome in the newly established Fascist Republic. After a brief inspection by a small group of German SS soldiers, he and the other Jewish camp members were loaded onto a train for expulsion…