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. Some of these extreme climate events affected people who were already forcibly displaced. Climate events in displacement settings have acute […]
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USCRI Honors Pope Francis
Today, USCRI reflects on the life and papacy that Pope Francis dedicated to the world’s most marginalized people, including refugees and migrants. Pope Francis was elected in 2013 and became the first pope from the Americas. His first trip as Pope was to the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, where he met with newly arrived migrants […]
Displacement in Sudan
On April 15, 2025, Sudan entered its third year of war. The following snapshot uses information from USCRI’s April 2025 Sudan Situation Update, as well as information as of April 16, 2025. The Largest Displacement Crisis in the World There are over 11.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sudan. Over 8 million of these […]
50 Years After the Fall of Saigon: Refugee Stories From Vietnam
On April 30, 1975, Saigon fell. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country. Families were separated in the chaos. At least 800,000 took to the seas in search of safety. Many would spend weeks at sea, denied rescue by passing ships. This mounting humanitarian crisis turned the South China […]
Sudan’s War, the World’s Silence
Today marks 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 […]
2025 Country Conditions: Ecuador
Ecuador, wedged between Colombia and Peru, was once known as an island of peace in the Andes. In 2020, its homicide rate was 6.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the region. Today, drug trafficking and associated gang violence have fractured this peace. In January 2024, cartel members, armed with explosives, took television […]
From Libya to Syria: Navigating Displacement Crises Post-Regime
Background The First Libyan Civil War and the Syrian Civil War were part of the broader Arab Spring uprisings that began in Tunisia in late 2010 and spread across the Middle East and North Africa. Both civil wars began in 2011 and emerged from a wave of protests demanding economic and social dignity, democracy, and […]
Donation Campaign by the UDEM Committee at the Casanicolás Shelter
This month, students from the USCRI RECIBE Committee at the UDEM delivered this month’s donations to the Casanicolás shelter as part of their permanent campaign to support forcibly displaced people in their city. On this occasion, they were able to collect and deliver 100 articles of clothing, a pair of tennis shoes, and five packages […]
Fourth Student Committee Meeting
The fourth Student Committee meeting – or “Claustro” – was held on March 21st and 22nd in our home city of Aguascalientes. We were pleased to receive 11 intelligent, empathetic, and affable representatives from seven of our partner universities. The primary objective of this Claustro was to create a space for our attendees to train […]
REDII: Capacity Training and New Employment Opportunities for Kenia and Karla
With the support of USCRI, two young people, Kenia and Karla, have undergone vocational training in El Salvador. Kenia graduated from the “Entrepreneurship Incubation Program” taught by the Salvadoran Red Cross in Chalatenango. Through this program, she developed an original business model for selling typical snacks in her community. Meanwhile, in San Salvador, Karla has […]
