Tag: refugees

Driving around Ivory Coast with a team investigating how to respond to the country’s humanitarian needs, Oxfam’s Charles Bambara speaks to Ivorians affected by the crisis.

The Ivory Coast’s humanitarian crisis continues, with more than 100,000 refugees having fled to Liberia to escape the violence. Oxfam’s Caroline Gluck provides an unsettling update in her latest podcasts.

Refugees from Ivory Coast continue to flee to Liberia as post-election violence and looting in their country escalates: these are some of their stories.

Martha Bol, a widow, and her children, spent their first night back in Leer county in southern Sudan sleeping outside in the cold. It wasn’t quite the homecoming she was expecting, but she was still excited to be back after spending the last two decades living on the outskirts of Khartoum, in the north of Sudan.

The Social Studio (TSS) is a Melbourne-based social enterprise which provides young women and men from refugee communities the opportunity to realize their potential as designers, makers and retailers of fashion.

This week on 3things we paid homage to environmental ‘eggsellence’ and ‘fishy’ innovation. We also wondered what it might be like to spend years in after school detention.

This week we scrutinised the two most pressing ticking time bombs in human history, heard from a girl who spent seven months in Woomera and got up close and personal with Hugh Jackman.