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Click here to read the article. For the first time, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has included climate change in its annual report laying out what events cause refugees to flee. Read more... [Quotation] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/06/the-un-is-sounding-the-alarm-on-climate-refugees/

Click here to read the article. A potential outbreak of COVID-19 in Tuvalu is being fended off by the national government, with measures including closure of borders, enhancing the capacity of the health system and voluntary population relocation. Read more... [Quotation] https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/blogs/reducing-covid-19-risk-through-population-relocation-and-closed-borders-effects-pandemic

Click here to read the article. Ramesh Thakur, Senior Research Fellow at the Toda Peace Institute, examines the responses by institutions of international governance to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more... [Quotation] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/05/03/commentary/world-commentary/scapegoating-the-who-as-the-cho/#.XrEW0hMzb-Z

Click here to read the article. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many of us are spending more time online, including children. Read more... [Quotation] https://humanetech.com/digital-wellbeing-covid/

Click here to read the article. Peacetech Lab is working with two peacebuilding organisations in South to compile a hate speech lexicon prior to 2022 elections. Read more... [Quotation] https://www.peacetechlab.org/hate-speech