Latest Humanitarian crisis Podcast Episodes
S3, E4: Climate-related Displacement and International Protection
Refugee Realities - June 12, 2023 05:47 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow can we best protect people displaced for environmental reasons? In this episode María José Maldonado and Natalie Jade Catanach interview Manuel Marques Pereira, Head of Division of Migration, Environment, and Climate Change and Risk Reduction, at the International Organisation for M...
S3, E3: Empowering Migrant and Refugee Women to Thrive: The gendered experiences of forced migration
Refugee Realities - June 11, 2023 13:25 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow are refugee experiences gendered, and what is the role of education in empowering female migrants and refugees? In this episode, Freya Thompson chats with Olivia Darby, Chief Programmes Officer at the WONDER Foundation. A women-led charity, WONDER seeks to support women and girls th...
S3, E2: The Possibilities of Refugee-led Action: perspectives from Turkey
Refugee Realities - June 11, 2023 13:16 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat role can refugees themselves play in responding to displacement, and how can we improve mechanisms that allow displaced communities to have an input into relief efforts? In this episode, Yanis Amirat and Maud Guibert sit down with Farida Abdulrahman, a Syrian refugee and former Hea...
S3, E1: Trampoline, an inspiring London-based café supporting Refugees’ journeys
Refugee Realities - June 11, 2023 12:34 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAccessing employment is a challenge facing many refugees wanting to integrate in a new country. Trampoline is a London-based café that aims to tackle this by providing refugees in the city with meaningful employment opportunities. In this episode, Rebecca Huggett, Sales Manager at Tramp...
S2, E8: Legal aid, bureaucratic obstacles, and grassroots NGOs
Refugee Realities - June 17, 2022 06:40 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Jasmin Arciero and Oliver Nixon interview Alexa Netty, the trustee and chair of the steering committee of SolidariTee. SolidariTee is a charity that supports NGOs offering legal aid to forcibly displaced people, and so they begin with a discussion on the importance of...
S2, E7: Contrasting crises: Government responses to refugees in Calais and from Ukraine
Refugee Realities - June 17, 2022 06:20 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor years, thousands of forcibly displaced people have been left in limbo in Calais, France, where they suffer from a lack of care and police crackdowns. Recently, as the Russian War is devastating Ukraine and forcing millions to flee, European countries (including France) are opening t...
S2, E6: Afghan evacuees in the UK: Challenges and opportunities
Refugee Realities - June 16, 2022 06:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFollowing the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, tens of thousands of Afghans fled to foreign countries. The UK evacuated around 18,000 people, who are now placed in temporary housing. Organizations such as British Red Cross are now seeking to assist Afghans resettle into...
S2, E5 Resilience in crisis: Reflections from a Ukrainian
Refugee Realities - June 16, 2022 06:15 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLittle has captured our attention like the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24th of this year. Constituting Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II, the UN estimates that more than 14 million people have fled their homes, with nearly 7 million Ukrainians seeking asylum...
S2, E4 Working towards dignity: Perspectives from refugee social workers in Lebanon
Refugee Realities - June 15, 2022 09:16 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this podcast, Yujia Zhang invites two women, Nadia and Fatima, to talk about their stories as both refugees and social workers in Lebanon. Nadia, a third generation Palestinian refugee, lives in the Beqaa Valley. Currently, she is the director of Manara centre of the Lighthouse Peace...
S2, E3 Persevering for peace: Understanding the challenges of an asylum journey
Refugee Realities - June 15, 2022 06:40 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis podcast explores the physical and emotional challenges that arise from refugees' journeys to safety. Sam, a former refugee from Iraq, describes his experience gaining asylum in the UK and how he has persevered through years of challenges. Sam discusses his reasons for fleeing, his ...
S2, E2 Climate-induced migration in the Caribbean: Where are we now and pathways forward
Refugee Realities - June 14, 2022 06:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Leah Trotman chats with Pablo Escribano, the Regional Thematic Specialist at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) for the Americas and the Caribbean on climate change and migration. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre reported that nearly 3 million...
S2, E1 Relief Chief: Insight on the refugee system from the top of the UN
Refugee Realities - June 13, 2022 10:53 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingToday’s theme in the Refugee Realities podcast series focuses on a birds-eye perspective of the challenges facing the global humanitarian system. And who better to speak with than the person who was responsible for coordinating this system: Sir Mark Lowcock, the former ‘Relief Chief’ of...
Decolonisation of aid: Dialogue #5 – The role of the donor (October 2021)
KUNO's Podcast - October 26, 2021 07:00 - 1 hourIn the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversatio...
Smruti Patel and Dirk-Jan Koch on the Decolonisation of aid – The role of the donor (October 2021)
KUNO's Podcast - October 14, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutesIn the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversatio...
Aarathi Krishnan and Hugo Slim on ethical and moral aspects of the Decolonisation of Humanitarian Aid (September 2021)
KUNO's Podcast - September 30, 2021 14:00 - 27 minutesIn the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversatio...
Decolonisation of aid: Dialogue #4 - an ethical perspective (September 2021)
KUNO's Podcast - September 30, 2021 13:00 - 1 hourIn the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversatio...
How Europe’s (anti-)migration policies are fuelling a humanitarian crisis (2021)
KUNO's Podcast - September 14, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourThe International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) recently published a special issue of International Migration journal, based on contributions to their conference in The Hague (2018). On the 9th of September IHSA and KUNO organized a webinar in which key findings of a special issue of t...
How Europe’s (anti-)migration policies are fueling a humanitarian crisis (2021)
KUNO's Podcast - September 14, 2021 12:00 - 1 hourRegistration of a webinar on 9 September 2021 presented by International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) and KUNO. During the webinar key findings were presented of a special issue of the International Migration Journal on 'Politics, humanitarianism and migration to Europe'. When some o...
S1, E12 Kaweh Beheshtizadeh's journey from asylum seeker to refugee lawyer
Refugee Realities - July 12, 2021 09:54 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this bonus episode, Kaweh Beheshtizadeh speaks to Jenifer Elmslie about his journey from asylum seeker to refugee lawyer. Kaweh sought asylum from Iran after participating in pro-Kurdish activism in the country, a group which is heavily persecuted and discriminated against. After a s...
Kaweh Beheshtizadeh's journey from asylum seeker to refugee lawyer
Refugee Realities - July 12, 2021 09:54 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this bonus episode, Kaweh Beheshtizadeh speaks to Jenifer Elmslie about his journey from asylum seeker to refugee lawyer. Kaweh sought asylum from Iran after participating in pro-Kurdish activism in the country, a group which is heavily persecuted and discriminated against. After a s...
An 'entire divorce' of an idea - Tammam Aloudat on the Decolonisation of Humanitarian Aid: (June 2021)
KUNO's Podcast - June 29, 2021 08:00 - 13 minutesIn the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversatio...
Decolonisation of aid: Dialogue #3 - a humanitarian aid perspective (June 2021)
KUNO's Podcast - June 25, 2021 10:00 - 1 hourIn the webinars 'The decolonization of aid' KUNO, Partos, and The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) take one step back and approach the discussion on the decolonization of aid in a series of talks. Step by step, we highlight an aspect of this debate. We ask two experts to engage in a conversatio...
Digital education and displacement
Refugee Realities - June 18, 2021 10:21 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, LSE Master’s student Ezgi Ilhan interviews Valentina Spinedi, Director of Student Advising at Paper Airplanes. Paper Airplanes is a fully virtual non-profit organization providing educational services to conflict-affected individuals, focusing on displaced Syrians with ...
Digital Education and Displacement
Refugee Realities - June 18, 2021 10:21 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, LSE Master’s student Ezgi Ilhan interviews Valentina Spinedi, Director of Student Advising at Paper Airplanes. Paper Airplanes is a fully virtual non-profit organization providing educational services to conflict-affected individuals, focusing on displaced Syrians with ...
S1, E11 Digital education and displacement
Refugee Realities - June 18, 2021 10:21 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, LSE Master’s student Ezgi Ilhan interviews Valentina Spinedi, Director of Student Advising at Paper Airplanes. Paper Airplanes is a fully virtual non-profit organization providing educational services to conflict-affected individuals, focusing on displaced Syrians with ...
Advocating for Refugee Education
Refugee Realities - June 18, 2021 10:04 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Konstantina Mirtzani and Valeria Miglio speak with Giulia Cicoli, co-founder and Advocacy Director of Still I Rise NGO. Still I Rise was first founded in 2018 to address the lack of appropriate education services for minors living in the Samos hotspot. Since then, the o...
S1, E10 Advocating for refugee education
Refugee Realities - June 18, 2021 10:04 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Konstantina Mirtzani and Valeria Miglio speak with Giulia Cicoli, co-founder and Advocacy Director of Still I Rise NGO. Still I Rise was first founded in 2018 to address the lack of appropriate education services for minors living in the Samos hotspot. Since then, the o...
Advocating for refugee education
Refugee Realities - June 18, 2021 10:04 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn this episode, Konstantina Mirtzani and Valeria Miglio speak with Giulia Cicoli, co-founder and Advocacy Director of Still I Rise NGO. Still I Rise was first founded in 2018 to address the lack of appropriate education services for minors living in the Samos hotspot. Since then, the o...
Solutions for IDPs: From Geneva to Mogadishu
Refugee Realities - June 17, 2021 12:22 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis podcast takes listeners to the forefront of the internal displacement issue in Somalia where Mogadishu officials are spearheading a policy to address the needs of the hundreds of thousands of IDPs in their city. In the first part of the podcast, Durable Solutions Consultant fo...
Solutions for IDPs: from Geneva to Mogadishu
Refugee Realities - June 17, 2021 12:22 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis podcast takes listeners to the forefront of the internal displacement issue in Somalia where Mogadishu officials are spearheading a policy to address the needs of the hundreds of thousands of IDPs in their city. In the first part of the podcast, Durable Solutions Consultant fo...
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