By Praveena Bandara, UNA-NCA Advocacy Fellow Whom do you think of when you hear the term “care-worker”? Do you think of a home health aide or a nurse working at an elder care home? Do you think of someone working at a daycare center for toddlers? Or do you picture…

By Catey Vera, UNA-NCA Advocacy Fellow The ongoing pandemic has painfully aggravated stateless migrants and refugees’ already precarious situations: transnational travel has stalled, governments have slashed resettlement quotas, and densely-populated refugee camps are burdened with the added costs of supplying urgently-needed medical equipment. …

By Grace O’Neill, UNA-NCA Advocacy Fellow The U.S. has a plastic problem; it is wreaking havoc far beyond our borders, leaving a lasting impact on the global community. Across the world, developing nations are attempting to handle vast amounts of imported plastic waste. Engulfed in an issue they neither created…

By Samin Huq, UNA-NCA Advocacy Fellow The United States hosts the world’s largest immigrant detention system and spends increasing amounts of money on detention as a stop-gap for immigrants, including asylum-seekers. ICE’s total custody operations budget rose from roughly $864 million in 2005 to $3 billion in 2018 (and 2020)…

By Jennifer Saxon, UNA-NCA Advocacy Fellow In August 2022, the Rohingya refugee crisis will be recategorized as protracted, a displacement affecting more than 25,000 people living outside of their country for more than five years. The Rohingya will add one million people to the 16 million who have already experienced…

By Christina Smith, UNA-NCA Advocacy Fellow Refugee rights, a priority on the UNA-NCA advocacy agenda, may bring to mind stories of those fleeing danger in far away lands, but advocacy does not stop at resettlement. Once a refugee has undergone the multiyear process to relocate to a third country, such…

By Shiraz De Vreede, UNA-NCA Advocacy Fellow Arctic sea ice is critical to our planet’s temperature regulation, as white snow and ice reflect sunlight back to space in order to keep the ocean cool and maintain a balanced global temperature. Greenhouse gas emissions have disrupted this delicate ecosystem by melting…

By Julie Choi and Kayleigh Thompson, UNA-NCA Senior Advocacy Fellows 10 years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the Japanese government has announced the beginning of a two year process that will release more than 1 million tonnes (an amount that is enough to fill about 500 Olympic sized swimming…

By Katie Ng Ross, UNA-NCA Senior Advocacy Fellow Maryland educator Keishia Thorpe of the International High School at Langley Park describes herself as the type of person who “makes lemonade out of lemons.” On top of the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic inflicted around the world, Ms. …