Podcasts about refugees

Episode #616: Joseph, a community leader among Myanmar refugees in Malaysia, and Patrick, an advocacy specialist working on refugee and migrant issues there, speak about their work and the very challenging situation faced by Myanmar refugees. Refugees themselves, while they have adapted to daily life in Malaysia, that adaptation never became security. Even after many years, they still live with constraints imposed by their legal status. Because Malaysia was not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, those fleeing conflict are permitted to remain in the country but are not legally recognized as refugees and have no pathway to citizenship or permanent residency. There is also a large and growing group of stateless children born to refugee parents, who can neither obtain citizenship from Myanmar nor legal status in Malaysia. Joseph and Patrick connect the cumulative effects of violence in Myanmar, dangerous flight, detention risk, economic exploitation, and prolonged legal uncertainty to a widening mental health crisis. They hear from individuals experiencing severe psychological distress, including suicidal thoughts and paranoia. At the same time, mental health services for refugees have largely collapsed there. As a result, refugees with serious psychological conditions have nowhere else to turn. In response to all these challenges, Joseph and Patrick run community-based training programs that teach culture, language and survival skills. Many newcomers have never before lived outside Myanmar and so are unfamiliar with the exigencies of cross-cultural awareness and understanding. These programs also address the importance of dignity and restoring hope. Both men reflect on the psychological toll of their own long-term exile and community involvement. Unlike those resettled in Western countries, they continue to imagine their return at some unknown point in the future as the only true endpoint. This prolonged suspension—neither fully rebuilding a life elsewhere, nor fully relinquishing the hope to return home—shapes how Myanmar refugees in Malaysia endure displacement. Patrick and Joseph say the Burmese people are fighting not for leaders but for freedom and dignity, and he asks those who believe in freedom to stay with them. They end with this plea: “Please don't forget about Myanmar!”

This plenary, “Refugee Resettlement: History and Laws Our Community Needs to Know,” by Lun Kham Pieper, was recorded on August 8, 2026, during the Our Stories, Our Faith conference, “Burma Christian Diaspora in Indianapolis: Celebrating Our Stories, Embracing Our Challenges.”Lun Kham Pieper is an Indiana attorney, mediator, and founder of the Law Office of Lun Kham Pieper, LLC.Learn more about the conference at ourstoriesourfaith.org This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit caacptsem.substack.com

John Stossel, Ann Coulter. Artificial Intelligence: Clueless Politicians, Myths, & the Fight Between American & Chinese Values. White South African Refugees. “Stop AI or we're all going to die!” shout protesters. They blame artificial intelligence for water shortages, higher electricity bills, and lost jobs. Are the worries valid? “They deny the huge benefits,” says Alex Epstein, who writes about AI and energy, “and they totally exaggerate the hazards and ignore all the ways we have of solving them.” AI haters make it sound like data centers will drain America dry. But it's not true. Data centers do use water. But it's just a fraction of a percent of US water use. And that water can be recycled. What about our jobs? Experts said: “AI would wipe out radiologists … even a Nobel Prize-winning AI scientist was saying this,” says author Adam Thierer. “But guess what? We have more radiologists today than ever before!” The truth doesn't stop clueless politicians. Bernie Sanders wants to ban AI that surpasses human capabilities. But In many ways, AI has already surpassed humans. He wants to stop it all? In the video above, more AI fears debunked, and how slowing American innovation will give us something worse: Chinese AI. Watch this video at- https://youtu.be/FRNFv6mGTDk?si=L8dz5l25-EF-0bc5 John Stossel 1.17M subscribers 159,816 views Sep 15, 2026 --------- To make sure you receive weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscrib... ————   Ann Coulter- The big AI companies trying to squelch competition with scare tactics. Ann Coulter on The Mark Simone Show (710 WOR) — September 23, 2026 Video source-  https://youtu.be/MQEtTNA2eeI?si=p3he1v5qkbYdldJF Ann Coulter 5.74K subscribers 4,283 views Sep 23, 2026 This interview originally aired on The Mark Simone Show on 710 WOR, on September 23, 2026. Watch LIVE on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/AnnCoulter YouTube:    / @anncoulterunsafe   Instagram:   / realanncoulter   Facebook:   / officialanncoulter   TikTok:   / realanncoulter   X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/anncoulter Substack: https://anncoulter.substack.com/   Post Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter South African white refugees fleeing violence are real refugees. They didn't vote for the policies that created the violence. They're escaping dictators and violence, not countries they helped destroy. 5:07 PM · Sep 26, 2026 86.4K Views

For the third time this year — there's a proposed merger involving major healthcare systems in Minnesota. This time it's Twin Cities-based HealthPartners and Duluth-based Essentia Health that are planning to combine under the HealthPartners name.The Minnesota Attorney General's office has charged nine people with Medicaid fraud totaling $3 million. Of that money allegedly stolen from Minnesota's Medicaid programs, $2 million is connected to Peter Meilahn. He's a Duluth resident who provided psychotherapy and mental health services through his own practice and worked as an independent contracted therapist for Franklin Family Services.Starting Thursday, thousands of immigrants in Minnesota will lose access to Medicaid benefits. Refugees and asylees used to have those benefits while they awaited a green card, but a new federal law taking effect Thursday makes them ineligible.A Roosevelt High School teacher in Minneapolis who was violently detained by federal agents outside the school in January has filed a claim against the government.

On this week's episode of the Peter Crouch Podcast, Pete, Sids and Chris are joined by a veteran goalkeeper who has represented Bosnia and Herzegovina, playing for clubs such as Stoke City, Chelsea, and Everton… it's Asmir Begović, and he's here for a proper trip down memory lane.(Also - we'd like to apologise for the scaffolding racket outside during the filming of this episode… this should be the last week of building works)Asmir opens up about his incredible journey from being born in Bosnia during the conflict, fleeing the country with his family and eventually settling in Canada, to making it over to England as a teenager and beginning his professional football career at Portsmouth.Asmir looks back on his time at Pompey, including some brilliant stories from competing with David James, eventually breaking into the first team. He also reveals what it was like working under Tony Pulis at Stoke, the strict rules in that dressing room, the incredible team spirit they developed and how Crouchy's arrival helped change the club.The lads also revisit Asmir's famous long-range Premier League goal, which remains one of the most memorable goals ever scored by a goalkeeper, before getting into his move to Chelsea, his relationship with José Mourinho and what it was like competing with Thibaut Courtois.There's plenty more along the way, from Asmir's experiences of football in Canada and his journey through the English leagues to stories from some of the biggest dressing rooms and managers he encountered throughout his career.Chumbawamba- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 00:00 - Intro, meeting Lamine Yamal, and the lads' weekend05:03 - Man City charges, potential punishment and the impact on football10:29 - Could Man City face a points deduction?15:30 - Asmir Begovic joins and looks back on playing with Crouchy20:02 - Asmir's childhood, moving to Canada and starting again25:39 - How Asmir's route to England began30:09 - Macclesfield, Bournemouth and breaking through at Yeovil35:13 - David James, the goalkeeper battle and Asmir's breakthrough40:08 - Tony Pulis' rules at Stoke and taking passports45:20 - Stoke's low block, stadium wind and the secret to their style50:19 - Asmir's record-breaking Premier League goal55:20 - Chelsea, Mourinho and the pressure inside the dressing room01:00:37 - Mourinho's intense methods and Asmir's move to AC Milan01:05:20 - Everton, Frank Lampard and surviving relegation battles01:10:13 - Asmir's future, coaching ambitions and life after playing01:12:40 - Asmir says goodbye and leaves the podcast01:17:35 - Predictions: Croatia vs England and the international fixtures01:19:39 - France vs Italy — the lads make their predictions01:21:04 - Crouchy reads from A Court of Thorns and Roses01:22:15 - The VERY unexpected fairy book reading01:25:40 - The lads react to the reading and wrap up- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Join our Patreon Community - https://www.patreon.com/cw/ThatPeterCrouchPodcastShoutout to @‌rodemic, now powering the audio for the pod! - https://brandstore.rode.com/crouchpodFor more Peter Crouch: Twitter - https://twitter.com/petercrouch Therapy Crouch - https://www.youtube.com/@thetherapycrouch For more Chris Stark Twitter - https://twitter.com/Chris_StarkInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/chrisstark/For more Steve Sidwell Twitter - https://twitter.com/sjsidwell Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/stevesidwell14 #PeterCrouch #ThatPeterCrouchPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Malaysia starts sending thousands of refugees back to war-torn Myanmar. Human rights groups say it risks returning Rohingya muslims to danger. We hear from a fearful refugee. Also in the programme: Israel's military says more than a hundred settlers have attacked a village in the occupied West Bank; we hear from Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich who was held in a Russian prison for more than 400 days; and how the youngest ever female chess grandmaster learnt to play.(IMAGE: Myanmar nationals due to be repatriated from Malaysia sit inside a bus at Lumut, Malaysia September 29, 2026 / REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain)

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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has shared deeply concerning news that 8.3 million refugees and forcibly displaced people face the heartbreaking possibility of losing essential humanitarian support due to significant funding reductions.In a comprehensive 26-page report called Protection Eroded: The Human Cost of Underfunding, the agency outlined a growing financial crisis, primarily caused by decreased foreign aid contributions from the United States and other key donor nations.The 2026 Budget Required totals approximately $8.505 billion, yet Funding Received through late July represents only 32% ($2.7 billion). The agency's available resources declined 24% from $5.2 billion in 2024 to $3.9 billion in 2025. UNHCR had to make the difficult decision to eliminate nearly 5,000 positions in 2025, affecting more than a quarter of its workforce.Dominique Hyde, UNHCR's Director of External Relations, expressed serious concern that these reductions are straining global protection systems to their limits. "Below a certain threshold, the system doesn't shrink, it fails," she explained, emphasizing that when fundamental registration and child safety initiatives disappear, the very dangers people escaped—exploitation, violence, and abuse—unfortunately resurface within displacement camps.Specific Impact of Underfunding across Countries and Regions:Chad 319,000 refugees experience severe registration delays, leaving them without documentation and unable to receive basic assistance; 233,000 children risk losing child protection services.Sudan Tens of thousands of children face serious vulnerability, and survivors of sexual violence are unable to access vital protection resources.Ethiopia Child protection services in certain regions have dropped by as much as 85%.Afghanistan Reintegration support for returning individuals has been reduced from $375 to $170 per person, during a period when the country has experienced over 1 million forced or voluntary returns.Iraq Approximately 350,000 refugees and asylum seekers are at risk of losing access to economic inclusion programs.In Syria, 162,500 vulnerable internally displaced individuals and returning refugees are expected to be left without the essential initial financial support needed to restart their lives. According to UNHCR, the number of people under its care could rise to 131.2 million by the end of 2026. This projected increase highlights a growing chasm between humanitarian needs and available resources, marking one of the most severe funding crises the agency has ever encountered.

Four years after Kabul fell, hundreds of Afghans who worked for the Australian Defence Force, diplomats and NGOs are still waiting on promised visas, while facing lethal risk. Waleed Aly and Hamish Macdonald speak to security consultant Dr Tony Murney and Azadi-e Zan's Susan Hutchinson, both of whom have spent years trying to get Australia's locally engaged employees to safety, about the human cost of a promise made by several successive governments and, they argue, broken by all of them.Plus, how Canada is leading the world in sponsoring refugees, and how Australia's current political climate is making it harder than ever to bring Australian allies homeGUEST: Dr Tony Murney, security consultant & Susan Hutchinson, executive director of women's rights organisation Azadi-e ZanGet in touch:We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.au

Kim Huynh on his family's remarkable journey from Vietnam to Australia. And taking on the role of carer for his fiercely strong-willed father, Thiet.Kim grew up in Canberra, arriving in Australia with his family as refugees from Vietnam.Like many migrant children, Kim is a very driven person and has taken on a lot of responsibilities in life.He is an academic, an ABC broadcaster, an author and a father.And when his 80-year-old father had a serious stroke, Kim also took on the role of carer.He had to find a way to help look after his dad, with whom he was living, continue working, bringing in an income, and help raise his own son.As he continued to care for his father, Kim had to come to terms with the conflict between his dad's increasingly frail body and his still-fierce willpower; the same willpower that got his family to safety some 45 years earlier.As a carer and a father, Kim has also had to navigate the complexities of giving his whole self to the people he loves, while still feeling like he wasn't doing enough for anyone.My Old Man and Me is published by HarperCollins.This episode of Conversations was produced by Meggie Morris. Executive Producer is Nicola Harrison.It explores family history, family origin stories, carers, stroke, Vietnamese refugees, Vietnamese in Australia, Vietnamese boat people, refugee crisis, migration, political asylum, fall of Saigon, Vietnam War, re-education camps, Indochina refugee crisis, Hoa people, fatherhood, intergenerational trauma, the body keeps the score, epigenetics, books, writing, memoir, taking care of your parents, fathers and sons.To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge host the St. Louis Morning Brief, opening with reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's September 25, 2026 ruling staying an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals order, upholding Missouri's 6-2 congressional district map layout for the November 2026 general election. The segment reviews local reporting from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch regarding an immigration awareness march in Overland organized alongside the Archdiocese of St. Louis during the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. Additional regional brief stories cover infrastructure vandalism investigations involving damaged fire hydrants across North St. Louis, controlled demolition plans by the Missouri Department of Transportation for the historic Chester Bridge connecting Perryville, Missouri to Chester, Illinois, and well wishes for community members recovering from motor vehicle accidents. For official election information, voter registration resources, and district lookup tools, visit the Missouri Secretary of State Elections Division. LISTEN TO 97.1 FM TALK LIVE IN ST LOUIS OR STREAM WORLDWIDE AT 971TALK.COM Hashtags: #971FMTalk #StLouis #STLNews #Redistricting #ArchdioceseSTL #ChesterBridge

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The number of people forced from their homes by war, violence and persecution continues to grow, while the international system created to protect them is under increasing strain. On the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly in New York, The National's Editor-in-Chief Mina Al-Oraibi speaks to Barham Salih, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and former president of Iraq, about the mounting pressures on the global refugee system. Mr Salih says protecting those forced to flee is not only a humanitarian and legal responsibility, but also a matter of national interest. With conflicts lasting longer and displacement increasing, he argues that the international community cannot afford to look away. In this special episode of Beyond the Headlines, they discuss shrinking humanitarian funding, the strain on the asylum system, and the worsening crises in Yemen and Sudan. They also look at what Syria and Iraq can teach the region about displacement and returning to rebuild lives after conflict.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Data from UNHCR with major processing by Our World in Data 117 million people forcibly displaced globally, UN Refugee chief says the durable solution is peace; China President Xi visits Trump in first state visit to US in a decade with few tangible agreements; Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time; Iran proposes deal to open Hormuz in 7 days if US meets conditions; Saturday Sept 25 is International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, marked this year by what Secretary-General Guterres calls an immediate and growing threat of nuclear catastrophe.  Palestinians and Iranians Respond to Trump and Netanyahu's U.N. Speeches, Which Called for Annihilation and Decried Accusations of Genocide as False The post UN Refugee chief says the durable solution to forcible displacements is peace; China President Xi ends 3-day visit to Trump with few tangible agreements – September 25, 2026 appeared first on KPFA.

South Sudan's refugees escaped war and other dangers – then came funding cuts - Joseph Ochieno. by Radio Islam

What does it mean to describe the Nakba as ongoing?In this episode, historian and author Dr Anne Irfan joins Britain Palestine Project podcast host Diana Safieh to trace the history of Palestinian displacement from the Nakba of 1948 to the present day.Anne begins with the events of 1947–49, when at least 750,000 Palestinians became refugees, and explains why the Nakba should be understood not only through the original expulsions, but through the subsequent denial of return and repeated displacement of Palestinian communities.She explores the central role Palestinian refugee camps have played in political organisation, resistance and sumud (steadfastness), from the Palestinian revolutionary movement of the late 1960s and 1970s to the First Intifada and later movements centred on the right of return.The conversation also examines the particular place of Gaza within this history. More than 200,000 Palestinian refugees arrived in Gaza following the Nakba, transforming its population and landscape and creating a refugee population whose descendants have experienced repeated displacement. Anne connects this history to the destruction and displacement witnessed in Gaza today.Dr Anne Irfan is a historian and lecturer at University College London, researching the history and politics of Palestinian displacement. She is the author of Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System (Columbia University Press, 2023) and A Short History of the Gaza Strip (Simon & Schuster, 2025).Her academic work has appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, Journal of Refugee Studies and Jerusalem Quarterly. She has also contributed to media outlets including Al Jazeera, The Nation, +972 and Jewish Currents.

What does healing look like for a refugee child? That's the question educational leader Erum Mariam asked when her team built the humanitarian "play labs": small, welcoming spaces where children displaced from their homes can play and reconnect with what they lost. From songs and dances to games and art they remember from home, Mariam shows how making space for kids to play brings back confidence and joy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Donate (no account necessary) | Subscribe (account required) Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he dives into today's top stories shaping America and the world. In this episode of The Wright Report, Bryan breaks down why a red hot US economy actually spooked markets yesterday, with mortgage rates topping 7 percent and the global diesel shortage now expected to drag into 2027. Bryan covers President Trump's high profile but light on substance meeting with President Xi at the White House, including fresh Chinese soybean purchases and a startling case of Chinese nationals smuggling drug soaked letters into US prisons. Plus, Bryan covers an alarming Pentagon warning that cartels are recruiting drone fighters with Ukraine war experience for the southern border, a new refugee policy prioritizing white South African Afrikaners, Italy's Giorgia Meloni cracking down on migrant assimilation, and a newly signed Greenland security deal that hands the US sweeping control of the island. "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32   Keywords: Wright Report, Bryan Dean Wright, US economy, Federal Reserve, mortgage rates, diesel shortage, Trump, Xi Jinping, China, soybeans, prison drug smuggling, Mexican cartels, drones, southern border, South Africa, Afrikaners, Italy, Giorgia Meloni, Greenland, Denmark

Dan Chung is the co-founder and executive director of Crossing Borders. He is author of the new book, A Hard Freedom: The Dreams and Trauma of North Korean Refugees In this exclusive Schilling Show Unleashed Podcast interview, Chung reveals the horrors of day-to-day life in North Korea, the systemic sexual trafficking of female North Korean refugees, and his organization's efforts to relocate these women to safety in South Korea.

Alexandra Gizhitsa Anderson is the sister of a Ukrainian war refugee living in Southington. She talks about the new Blumenthal/Murkowski led Ukraine War Refugee TPS Extension Bill.

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR says Chad is now hosting around 1.5 million refugees and asylum-seekers from Sudan. And despite the war entering its fourth year, the flow of people has not stopped. More than 50,000 of them have arrived in Eastern Chad this year alone. We speak with Mamadou Dian Baldé, UNHCR's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa who recently visited some of the refugee camps in the region. And, September 23 is the International Day of Sign Languages. We look at the role of AI in advancing access to information and education for deaf communities.Presenter: Nkechi Ogbonna Producer: Rukia Bulle Technical Producer: Herbert Masua Senior Producer: Charles Gitonga Editors: Daniel Dadzie and Maryam Abdalla

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Steven Truong came from Vietnam to Australia on a fishing boat in 1979. Without knowing English and any relevant skill sets, his family's struggles and hard work for their first Sydney property continues to serve as an inspiration to Steven today. Now a lawyer of 17 years and a property investor of 10, Steven shares how he propelled himself from impoverishment to having more than enough.Find out how Steven kick-started his investment career, how his parents' lessons and experiences helped him with his own, how university studies can help with property investment and how your mindset can mean the difference between a profit and a loss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if Christians stopped thinking like spiritual refugees and began thinking like heirs? Scripture offers a dramatically different vision of responsibility, mission, obedience, and hope.

Steven Truong came from Vietnam to Australia on a fishing boat in 1979. Without knowing English and any relevant skill sets, his family's struggles and hard work for their first Sydney property continues to serve as an inspiration to Steven today. Now a lawyer of 17 years and a property investor of 10, Steven shares how he propelled himself from impoverishment to having more than enough.Find out how Steven kick-started his investment career, how his parents' lessons and experiences helped him with his own, how university studies can help with property investment and how your mindset can mean the difference between a profit and a loss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You don't have to live as a Kingdom refugee; the price for your redemption has been paid.

Centuries of refugees fleeing religious persecution and the Methodist who came to rest in Limerick's Golden Vale in 1765See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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When your life changes in a big way or uproots you to a new place, how do you find a new sense of belonging? That's the premise of “Voices Unbound: A Conversation on Identity and Belonging.” Four people — from different places and who've lived very different lives — connected with one another to discuss topics like heritage, displacement, assimilation and the desire to belong. 

Beni Sabti lived under the Iranian regime—and risked everything to escape it. Now a leading Iran expert, he joins Dr. Phil to share what life is really like inside the country, why protests keep erupting, and whether the regime could fall in our lifetime. From nuclear threats to propaganda campaigns, Sabti breaks down what Americans need to know—and what could come next.This episode is brought is brought to you by Preserve Gold, call 844-718-2642 or text ASK PHIL to 50505 for your free wealth protection guide.This episode is brought to you by: Chapter compares every Medicare plan nationwide for free to recommend coverage based on your doctors, prescriptions, and budget. Call 352-845-0659 or visit https://chapter.com/phil. *Paid Partnership See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us Fan MailEVENT LINK!  https://newportfilm.com/films/unbowed/This episode introduces the documentary Unbowed, a Rhode Island-centered film about Omar Bah, his journey from the Gambia to resettlement in Providence, and the founding of the Refugee Dream Center. It also explores how the film team captured both the personal and policy realities of refugee life during a politically charged era.Bill Bartholomew is joined by co-directors David Wells and Mae Gammino, along with Omar Bah himself, whose lived experience anchors the film and the conversation. Support the showFollow Bill on Instagram and YouTube

In this episode of New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with historian Giuseppe Motta about Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State (Routledge, 2026), a study of Jewish displacement, statelessness, humanitarian action, international law, and international institutions between the First and Second World Wars.Drawing on extensive archival research in the records of the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee, Motta reconstructs the political and legal environment in which Jewish refugees from East-Central Europe struggled to find protection after the collapse of empires and the redrawing of national borders. The book follows the refugee question from the aftermath of World War I through the rise of Nazism and the Évian Conference of 1938, asking how states, international organizations, humanitarian agencies, and Jewish institutions responded to people increasingly left outside effective national protection.A central theme of the conversation is the tension captured in the subtitle, Beyond the State. The interwar refugee crisis exposed a basic contradiction: refugees required protection that crossed national borders, while international law remained dependent on the sovereignty and political choices of individual states. Motta explains how the Jewish refugee question became connected to statelessness, minority protection, humanitarian responsibility, migration control, legal identity, and international cooperation across Europe.The discussion also explores the wider forces surrounding Jewish displacement: the legacies of World War I, new states in Central and Eastern Europe, nationalism, antisemitism, Bolshevism, Zionism, migration policy, and the restrictive political climate of the 1920s and 1930s. Particular attention is given to the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee, whose archives reveal both institutional debates and the practical difficulties faced by refugees seeking safety and legal recognition.Rather than treating Jewish refugees only as a prelude to the Holocaust, Motta places the interwar period in its own historical and legal context. This perspective helps explain how ideas later central to international refugee law and human rights developed through earlier crises, experiments, failures, and negotiations.Giuseppe Motta is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at Sapienza University of Rome and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Hebrew Journal (EHJ).Motta will also speak at the European Hebrew Journal International Online Conference, New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies. On 7 November 2026 at 19:00 CET, he will lead a live scholarly debate based on this book. His biography, book information, presentation details, and conference session are available on Giuseppe Motta's conference page.The interview is hosted by Željko Stanojević, President of the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of the European Hebrew Journal, and a New Books Network host in Biblical Studies. The Belgrade-based Institute promotes international scholarship in Hebrew language, Jewish studies, Biblical studies, Semitic studies, history, religion, and related interdisciplinary fields.Keywords and themes: Jewish refugees, interwar Europe, League of Nations, Joint Distribution Committee, statelessness, Jewish migration, Évian Conference, antisemitism, minority rights, humanitarianism, refugee law, international law, East-Central Europe, Jewish history, human rights, nationalism, international relations, refugee protection. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with historian Giuseppe Motta about Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State (Routledge, 2026), a study of Jewish displacement, statelessness, humanitarian action, international law, and international institutions between the First and Second World Wars.Drawing on extensive archival research in the records of the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee, Motta reconstructs the political and legal environment in which Jewish refugees from East-Central Europe struggled to find protection after the collapse of empires and the redrawing of national borders. The book follows the refugee question from the aftermath of World War I through the rise of Nazism and the Évian Conference of 1938, asking how states, international organizations, humanitarian agencies, and Jewish institutions responded to people increasingly left outside effective national protection.A central theme of the conversation is the tension captured in the subtitle, Beyond the State. The interwar refugee crisis exposed a basic contradiction: refugees required protection that crossed national borders, while international law remained dependent on the sovereignty and political choices of individual states. Motta explains how the Jewish refugee question became connected to statelessness, minority protection, humanitarian responsibility, migration control, legal identity, and international cooperation across Europe.The discussion also explores the wider forces surrounding Jewish displacement: the legacies of World War I, new states in Central and Eastern Europe, nationalism, antisemitism, Bolshevism, Zionism, migration policy, and the restrictive political climate of the 1920s and 1930s. Particular attention is given to the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee, whose archives reveal both institutional debates and the practical difficulties faced by refugees seeking safety and legal recognition.Rather than treating Jewish refugees only as a prelude to the Holocaust, Motta places the interwar period in its own historical and legal context. This perspective helps explain how ideas later central to international refugee law and human rights developed through earlier crises, experiments, failures, and negotiations.Giuseppe Motta is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at Sapienza University of Rome and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Hebrew Journal (EHJ).Motta will also speak at the European Hebrew Journal International Online Conference, New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies. On 7 November 2026 at 19:00 CET, he will lead a live scholarly debate based on this book. His biography, book information, presentation details, and conference session are available on Giuseppe Motta's conference page.The interview is hosted by Željko Stanojević, President of the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of the European Hebrew Journal, and a New Books Network host in Biblical Studies. The Belgrade-based Institute promotes international scholarship in Hebrew language, Jewish studies, Biblical studies, Semitic studies, history, religion, and related interdisciplinary fields.Keywords and themes: Jewish refugees, interwar Europe, League of Nations, Joint Distribution Committee, statelessness, Jewish migration, Évian Conference, antisemitism, minority rights, humanitarianism, refugee law, international law, East-Central Europe, Jewish history, human rights, nationalism, international relations, refugee protection. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In this episode of New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with historian Giuseppe Motta about Jewish Refugees and the International Community Between the Two World Wars: Beyond the State (Routledge, 2026), a study of Jewish displacement, statelessness, humanitarian action, international law, and international institutions between the First and Second World Wars.Drawing on extensive archival research in the records of the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee, Motta reconstructs the political and legal environment in which Jewish refugees from East-Central Europe struggled to find protection after the collapse of empires and the redrawing of national borders. The book follows the refugee question from the aftermath of World War I through the rise of Nazism and the Évian Conference of 1938, asking how states, international organizations, humanitarian agencies, and Jewish institutions responded to people increasingly left outside effective national protection.A central theme of the conversation is the tension captured in the subtitle, Beyond the State. The interwar refugee crisis exposed a basic contradiction: refugees required protection that crossed national borders, while international law remained dependent on the sovereignty and political choices of individual states. Motta explains how the Jewish refugee question became connected to statelessness, minority protection, humanitarian responsibility, migration control, legal identity, and international cooperation across Europe.The discussion also explores the wider forces surrounding Jewish displacement: the legacies of World War I, new states in Central and Eastern Europe, nationalism, antisemitism, Bolshevism, Zionism, migration policy, and the restrictive political climate of the 1920s and 1930s. Particular attention is given to the League of Nations and the Joint Distribution Committee, whose archives reveal both institutional debates and the practical difficulties faced by refugees seeking safety and legal recognition.Rather than treating Jewish refugees only as a prelude to the Holocaust, Motta places the interwar period in its own historical and legal context. This perspective helps explain how ideas later central to international refugee law and human rights developed through earlier crises, experiments, failures, and negotiations.Giuseppe Motta is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at Sapienza University of Rome and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Hebrew Journal (EHJ).Motta will also speak at the European Hebrew Journal International Online Conference, New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies. On 7 November 2026 at 19:00 CET, he will lead a live scholarly debate based on this book. His biography, book information, presentation details, and conference session are available on Giuseppe Motta's conference page.The interview is hosted by Željko Stanojević, President of the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature, Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of the European Hebrew Journal, and a New Books Network host in Biblical Studies. The Belgrade-based Institute promotes international scholarship in Hebrew language, Jewish studies, Biblical studies, Semitic studies, history, religion, and related interdisciplinary fields.Keywords and themes: Jewish refugees, interwar Europe, League of Nations, Joint Distribution Committee, statelessness, Jewish migration, Évian Conference, antisemitism, minority rights, humanitarianism, refugee law, international law, East-Central Europe, Jewish history, human rights, nationalism, international relations, refugee protection. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What do working in refugee camps, contracting malaria five times, HIV prevention, prisons and podiatry all have in common? They all have Liz Emrys in the story.Liz didn't graduate as a podiatrist until her 40s, but by then she had already lived a life that could easily fill a book.In this episode of the Podiatry Legends Podcast, Liz takes me back to her early 20s when a six-week trip to help build a school near the Thai-Burma border changed the direction of her life. That experience led to years of international public health work across Thailand, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, including HIV prevention programs and work within the prison system.Eventually, life brought Liz back to Australia, marriage, children and a very practical question: What career could give her independence, security, flexibility and the opportunity to help people?She went through the healthcare professions and, almost methodically, landed on podiatry.Today, Liz owns North Star Podiatry in Hornsby, New South Wales, and has discovered something she values enormously: the freedom to create a clinic her way.We also talk about communication, listening to patients, practice ownership, autonomy, starting again later in life, and why your career doesn't need to consume your entire identity.Liz describes podiatry not as the great love of her life, but as a “good friend” that has given her a rewarding career and the space to enjoy everything else life has to offer.This is definitely not your typical journey into podiatry.For additional show notes, please visit the Podiatry Legends Podcast WebsiteConnect With MeIf you'd like to learn more about being a guest on the show, my best email address is tyson@podiatrylegends.com.Become A Sponsor - Are you looking for an alternative way to be noticed by podiatrists?Consider sponsoring the Podiatry Legends Podcast; many sponsorship opportunities are available.  Please email me or visit the Podiatry Legends Website to learn more. Leave a Review - If you've enjoyed this episode, I'd really appreciate it if you left a review on your favourite podcast platform. Reviews help other podiatrists discover the podcast and let me know you're enjoying what I'm putting together each week.Have you read my book? It's No Secret There's Money in Podiatry AI designed for Podiatrists: visit Preve.co 

Warning: Explicit content. This episode discusses the recent "n" word on the playground incident in light of the influx of Somali refugees in America. JR Rife  - Author, Rocker, Theologian, and Modern Viking -  engages in a variety of topics, ranging from Biblical to Heavy Metal to anthropology, in this eclectic podcast.

Hello, and welcome to Political Realignment. I'm Hank Wilson. In our last episode, we stood with America at the end of the Civil War and asked a deceptively simple question: How do you rebuild a nation after it has been divided against itself? But there was another question—one that was perhaps even more difficult. Nearly four million people who had once been enslaved were now free. But what did freedom actually mean? It is easy, looking backward, to think of emancipation as an ending. Slavery had been abolished. The enslaved were free. But for the people actually living through 1865, emancipation wasn't simply an ending. It was a beginning. People who had previously been considered property were suddenly expected to participate in an economic and political system that had spent generations excluding them. Many had little formal education. Most owned no land. Many had no money. Families had been separated. And throughout much of the South, the people who had controlled the land, the economy, and local government before the war were still there. Freedom had arrived. But almost none of the institutions necessary to make that freedom meaningful had arrived with it. Congress attempted to address that problem through an organization commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau. Its formal name was the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Created in March of 1865, the Bureau was given an extraordinary assignment. It provided food, clothing, and medical assistance. It helped establish schools. It supervised labor agreements. It assisted families separated during slavery and the war. It became involved in disputes involving freedpeople and attempted to provide some measure of legal protection. Those were ambitious goals. And they were, in many respects, admirable ones. But there was an enormous difference between declaring what an agency should accomplish... and giving that agency the ability to accomplish it. To understand that difference, let's leave Washington for a moment. Let's go to Virginia. Thomas P. Jackson Thomas P. Jackson was an English immigrant working as an agent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia. And Jackson's reports provide us with something extraordinarily valuable. They allow us to watch Reconstruction happening on the ground. Not through the speeches of presidents. Not through debates in Congress. But through the reports of a man trying to make the new system actually work. Consider something as basic as medical care. A local physician, Dr. S. C. Harris, had been providing medical services to freedpeople in Jackson's area. But medicine costs money. Doctors have to make a living. And good intentions don't pay for medical supplies. In May of 1867, Jackson wrote to his superior asking the government to provide money so Harris could continue his work. The amount he requested? Twenty-five dollars a month. Jackson wrote that there were people suffering from illnesses, including typhoid fever, and asked for the appropriation on their behalf. Twenty-five dollars. One month later, Jackson wrote again. Dr. Harris could no longer afford to continue providing both his services and medicine without sufficient compensation. Think about what that tells us. The federal government had created an agency charged, among other things, with assisting the medical needs of a population emerging from slavery and war. An agent found a doctor willing to do the work. And the system still struggled to provide enough resources to keep him doing it. Medical care wasn't the only problem. Freedom and Work For generations, the Southern agricultural economy had depended upon enslaved labor. Now that labor had to become something entirely different. Free labor. Employers and workers would negotiate. Contracts would be created. Workers would be paid. At least, that was the idea. Once again, Jackson's reports show us what happened when the idea encountered reality. In September of 1867, he reported that many employers were not treating their workers fairly. The problem became particularly obvious when the agricultural season ended and it was time to settle accounts. Workers who believed they were owed wages discovered that the agreements they thought protected them didn't necessarily provide much protection at all. Some received goods or credit rather than the money their agreements called for. Jackson asked one of the obvious questions. Why accept goods when the contract said you were supposed to receive money? The answer tells us more about the economic reality of Reconstruction than almost any government report could. The workers told him, essentially: We couldn't get the money, and our families had to eat and be clothed. There is an important distinction here. These people were free. But freedom and economic independence are not the same thing. If you own no land... have little money... possess limited education... and the person employing you controls much of the local economy... your bargaining position isn't particularly strong. You may have the legal right to say no. But when your children need food, the practical ability to say no can be something entirely different. And this was one of the fundamental problems Reconstruction faced. The government could abolish slavery by law. It could not instantly create economic independence. The Return of Political Power There was another force at work. The people who had controlled Southern society before the war had not simply disappeared. Landowners wanted their property restored. Former political leaders wanted influence restored. Communities wanted control over their own institutions restored. And as Reconstruction continued, political organization increasingly became part of the struggle. Jackson observed efforts by conservative political leaders to influence newly enfranchised Black voters. In January 1868, however, he reported that those efforts had made little impression on the mass of Black voters. In Jackson's assessment, they understood that the political rights they had recently acquired could disappear if the old political order returned. That observation is important. Because we're beginning to see that Reconstruction was no longer simply about rebuilding roads, farms, and courthouses. It was about power. Who would vote? Who would govern? Who would control labor? Who would interpret the law? And ultimately... who would determine what freedom meant? Resentment and Resistance There was also another population struggling with the postwar economy. Poor white Southerners. They hadn't necessarily owned plantations. Many had never owned slaves. And after the war, many were struggling economically themselves. Now they found themselves competing for scarce employment and resources with millions of newly freed people. That economic competition existed alongside generations of racial prejudice. It was an extraordinarily combustible combination. Jackson watched the situation deteriorate. In November 1867, he reported several pistol attacks by white men against freedpeople. By March of the following year, he blamed conservative political leaders and newspapers for encouraging hostility among whites who already viewed freedpeople with contempt. Jackson believed inflammatory political language was helping create an atmosphere in which violence became easier to justify. And in one particularly revealing incident, he reported a local justice making an openly racist statement suggesting Black residents should be driven from the county. Remember what we're seeing here. The Freedmen's Bureau was trying to provide medical assistance. It was trying to supervise labor contracts. It was trying to establish schools. It was trying to protect legal rights. It was trying to alleviate poverty. And at the same time, its agents were operating inside communities experiencing enormous economic hardship, political upheaval, racial resentment, and sometimes outright violence. Perhaps the more interesting question isn't why the Bureau failed to accomplish everything expected of it. Perhaps the question is: How could anyone reasonably have expected one temporary federal agency to accomplish all of this? Success or Failure? It would be unfair to say the Freedmen's Bureau accomplished nothing. It did. Its educational work alone would leave an important legacy. It provided food and medical assistance. It helped establish schools. It assisted families. It supervised labor agreements. Individual agents such as Thomas Jackson genuinely attempted to protect the people placed under their care. Those accomplishments matter. But so do the limitations. The Bureau was attempting something far larger than administering a government program. It was attempting to help transform an entire social and economic system. And it was doing so without unlimited money... without unlimited manpower... without consistent local cooperation... and, most importantly, without any guarantee that the federal government would maintain the political will necessary to sustain the effort. That brings us back to our original question. What did freedom actually mean? Was freedom simply the legal declaration that one human being could no longer own another? Or did freedom require something more? Did it include the right to enter into an enforceable contract? The right to receive equal treatment in court? The right to own property? The right to participate in government? The right to receive equal protection from the state in which you lived? ...

Dan Chung has spent more than twenty years on the front lines of the North Korean refugee crisis. Co-founder and executive director of Crossing Borders, a ministry that has worked in China since 2003 and South Korea since 2020, Dan has interviewed hundreds of North Korean refugees and is one of the foremost experts on their journey out of the world's most repressive country. His debut book, A Hard Freedom: The Dreams and Trauma of North Korean Refugees, chronicles what he has witnessed and what he has learned about healing after unimaginable suffering. Dan holds an MA in journalism from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and covered inter-Korean politics and refugee issues for the Associated Press in Seoul. He lives outside of Chicago with his wife, Betty, and their three children, where he plays guitar and loves to cook for his family. To learn more about Crossing Borders and to get involved with prayer and/or financial support, visit crossingbordersnk.org Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.

On Thursday's show: Texas Comptroller Don Huffines has requested legislators double the money behind the state's private school voucher program to $2 billion. More than 100,000 students sit on the waitlist, but critics argue there is little evidence vouchers are delivering on their promises to justify expanding the program.Also this hour: We consider why the federal minimum wage hasn't been raised in 17 years.Then, as the Taliban retook Afghanistan in 2021, The New York Times scrambled to evacuate people that worked for its bureau there and their families. They ended up here in Houston. Why, how, and what happened next is the subject of the new book, The Last Free Women. We talk with the co-authors, Rebecca Blumenstein and Diana Kapp, ahead of an event at Brazos Bookstore Friday.And, this weekend, Performing Arts Houston will present a concert at Jones Hall featuring the complete piano etudes of Philip Glass. Among the performers is Jiani Wu, an HSPVA alum and a current Rice University piano student, who performs and talks about Glass' music.Watch

In this episode of the Rox Lyfe podcast, we chat with Abbas Nazari.Abbas has an extraordinary story. Born in Afghanistan, he fled the country with his family as a child and eventually found himself aboard an overcrowded refugee boat carrying hundreds of people across the Indian Ocean. After the boat's engine failed and it began taking on water, they were rescued in an incident that became an international political story.We discuss Abbas's childhood in Afghanistan, the journey his family made in search of safety and what he remembers about believing, at just seven years old, that he might not survive the crossing.Abbas also talks about starting a new life in New Zealand, how those experiences shaped his perspective and resilience, and why he now sees that difficult period of his life as a source of strength.We then move into his HYROX journey, including racing in the Elite 15, qualifying for the 2027 World Championships in Hong Kong and the training lessons he has learned along the way.Finally, Abbas shares his thoughts on keeping HYROX and athletic performance in perspective, why consistency matters more than constantly training hard and what he hopes people take away from his story.It was a great chat with a great guy and I think you'll really enjoy it.

Mandana Dayani grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, in a Persian Jewish family that had been trying to flee since the 1979 revolution. She couldn't play in the park across the street, sirens were routine, and she had a gun pointed at her more than once before she was five. In 1987, her family escaped on a one-day visa, signing away their home and everything they owned to start over in New York with no English and little money. On this episode of She Pivots, Mandana takes us from that five-year-old holding her mother's hand through a career that took her from Rachel Zoe to running Prince Harry and Meghan's media company, scaling major brands across fashion, media, and tech, and co-founding one of the country's biggest nonpartisan voting organizations. She also opens up about the video she made after October 7th about her own childhood, which has now been watched more than fifty million times. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome to She Pivots 00:28 Guest Intro: Mandana Dayani 02:02 Who is Mandana? 02:51 A Childhood in War-Torn Iran 04:31 Growing Up As A Religious Refugee 14:18 From Lawyer to Fashion Brand Builder 19:27 Leaving Rachel Zoe 21:57 The Birth of I'm A Voter 30:26 Archewell 33:06 The October 7th Viral Video 38:55 Low Point to Launch 40:33 Reflecting on Mandana's Journey 42:00 Podcast Credits Learn more about what Mandana is up to on Instagram @mandanadayani or on her website www.mandanadayani.com Subscribe to her Substack All Of It at mandanadayani.substack.com Be sure to subscribe so you never miss a pivot story, leave us a rating (it really helps!), and share this episode with a woman in your life who you think needs a little inspiration. She Pivots is a podcast created by host Emily Tisch Sussman to highlight influential women voices, share stories of bold career moves, and inspire women with interviews about career reinvention and how personal pivots can redefine professional success. Join our Substack community! Subscribe here for exclusive content and to connect with other pivoters: shepivots.substack.com Learn more about the inspiring women in our pivoter community by following us on instagram @ShePivotsThePodcast, and check out our website shepivotspod.com for resources and updates. She Pivots is proud to be an iHeart podcast.Support the show: https://www.shepivotsthepodcast.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

n this podcast, North Korean refugees who visited the University of Bradford share their harrowing experiences of life in North Korea, escape, and the challenges of building new lives in freedom. They are supported by Freedom Speakers International (FSI), a Seoul-based non-profit that helps North Korean refugees rebuild their lives through personalised English education, mentoring and public-speaking opportunities. Crucially, FSI enables refugees to tell their own stories in their own voices. Their testimony reveals the human cost of repression in North Korea while highlighting the importance of the humanitarian work undertaken by FSI: helping refugees develop the skills and confidence to pursue their ambitions, rebuild their independence and ensure that their experiences are heard internationally. Freedom Speakers International (FSI) is a Seoul-based non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting North Korean refugees as they rebuild their lives after escape from North Korea. Founded in 2013 by Casey Lartigue Jr. and Eunkoo Lee, it began as Teach North Korean Refugees and has developed into an organisation focused on empowering refugees through education, mentoring and public speaking opportunities. FSI provides North Korean refugees with tuition-free, individualised English and public-speaking mentorship. This is particularly important because many refugees arrive in South Korea having experienced severe disruption to their education and face significant disadvantages in employment and higher education, where English proficiency can be important. FSI works with refugees according to their own objectives, helping them improve their language skills, confidence and ability to participate fully in South Korean and international society. An especially important part of FSI's work is enabling North Korean refugees who wish to do so to tell their own stories. Through its public-speaking programme, its “I Am From North Korea” English Speech Contest and its Keynote Speaker Network, FSI gives refugees opportunities to communicate their experiences directly to international audiences rather than having others speak on their behalf. Its speaker network now includes more than 30 speakers. The humanitarian importance of this work extends well beyond language teaching. North Korean refugees have often endured repression, traumatic journeys of escape, separation from their families and the considerable difficulties of adapting to an unfamiliar society. Effective resettlement therefore requires more than providing physical safety. It also means helping people recover independence, confidence and the ability to determine their own futures. FSI's personalised model is particularly valuable because it treats refugees not simply as recipients of assistance but as individuals with their own ambitions, experiences and voices. Its work helps turn escape from persecution into the possibility of a genuinely independent life. At the same time, by enabling refugees to speak about North Korea from personal experience, FSI performs a wider human-rights function. First-hand testimony preserves awareness of conditions inside North Korea and ensures that the experiences of those who have escaped remain part of international discussion. Supporting North Korean refugees in finding their own voices is therefore both an important humanitarian activity and a contribution to the broader defence of human dignity and freedom. Christoph Bluth is Professor of International Relations and Security at the University of Bradford. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

n this podcast, North Korean refugees who visited the University of Bradford share their harrowing experiences of life in North Korea, escape, and the challenges of building new lives in freedom. They are supported by Freedom Speakers International (FSI), a Seoul-based non-profit that helps North Korean refugees rebuild their lives through personalised English education, mentoring and public-speaking opportunities. Crucially, FSI enables refugees to tell their own stories in their own voices. Their testimony reveals the human cost of repression in North Korea while highlighting the importance of the humanitarian work undertaken by FSI: helping refugees develop the skills and confidence to pursue their ambitions, rebuild their independence and ensure that their experiences are heard internationally. Freedom Speakers International (FSI) is a Seoul-based non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting North Korean refugees as they rebuild their lives after escape from North Korea. Founded in 2013 by Casey Lartigue Jr. and Eunkoo Lee, it began as Teach North Korean Refugees and has developed into an organisation focused on empowering refugees through education, mentoring and public speaking opportunities. FSI provides North Korean refugees with tuition-free, individualised English and public-speaking mentorship. This is particularly important because many refugees arrive in South Korea having experienced severe disruption to their education and face significant disadvantages in employment and higher education, where English proficiency can be important. FSI works with refugees according to their own objectives, helping them improve their language skills, confidence and ability to participate fully in South Korean and international society. An especially important part of FSI's work is enabling North Korean refugees who wish to do so to tell their own stories. Through its public-speaking programme, its “I Am From North Korea” English Speech Contest and its Keynote Speaker Network, FSI gives refugees opportunities to communicate their experiences directly to international audiences rather than having others speak on their behalf. Its speaker network now includes more than 30 speakers. The humanitarian importance of this work extends well beyond language teaching. North Korean refugees have often endured repression, traumatic journeys of escape, separation from their families and the considerable difficulties of adapting to an unfamiliar society. Effective resettlement therefore requires more than providing physical safety. It also means helping people recover independence, confidence and the ability to determine their own futures. FSI's personalised model is particularly valuable because it treats refugees not simply as recipients of assistance but as individuals with their own ambitions, experiences and voices. Its work helps turn escape from persecution into the possibility of a genuinely independent life. At the same time, by enabling refugees to speak about North Korea from personal experience, FSI performs a wider human-rights function. First-hand testimony preserves awareness of conditions inside North Korea and ensures that the experiences of those who have escaped remain part of international discussion. Supporting North Korean refugees in finding their own voices is therefore both an important humanitarian activity and a contribution to the broader defence of human dignity and freedom. Christoph Bluth is Professor of International Relations and Security at the University of Bradford.Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The transfer portal has sealed itself shut. Everything we see from now on is permanent. If FC Cincinnati plans to make the big dance, it will have to do good with the date that brought them to the prom. They'll have to prove themselves against the current Wooden Spoon holders this weekend. Let's not jump to conclusions. D.C. United has done well to distance themselves from last year's performance. The Black-and-Red are already ahead of last season's points-per-game pace. The revamped offense has the playmakers, and the defense has locked opponents much better. So why are things still feeling unsettled in the nation's capital? We invite Jon from the RFK Refugees to air his dirty laundry about the system in D.C. What's holding the positive vibes back? Can D.C. United regain their form of yesteryear under Rene Weiler's tutelage? Tune in and trade threads with us! #MLS #FCCincinnati #soccer Become a Patron! Subscribe to Cincinnati Soccer Talk Don't forget you can now download and subscribe to Cincinnati Soccer Talk on iTunes today! The podcast can also be found on Stitcher Smart Radio now. We're also available in the Google Play Store and NOW ON SPOTIFY! As always we'd love your feedback about our podcast! You can email the show at feedback@cincinnatisoccertalk.com. We'd love for you to join us on our Facebook page as well! Like us at Facebook.com/CincinnatiSoccerTalk.

Charles Ryu escaped North Korea twice and now he's doing our podcast twice. We talk about college in North Korea, working in a coal mine, how he met his American wife, and how much he loves Panda Express.  Follow the IG: https://www.instagram.com/homeroom.show   Follow the TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@homeroomshow   Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@homeroomshow Guest: Charles Ryu: https://www.instagram.com/charlesnorthkorea/  Hosted by:  Jonnie Park: https://www.instagram.com/dumbfoundead https://www.tiktok.com/@dumbfoundead  Steffie Baik: https://www.instagram.com/steffiebaik https://www.tiktok.com/@steffiebaik  Podcast Producer: Caroline Y Choi  Audio: Johnny Chay Podcast Media Team: GGEZ Media Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Afghans in Pakistan and Iran face an uncertain future under the Taliban amid a huge deportation drive. We have a report from the Torkham crossing, known as "zero point". Millions of Afghans have fled across the borders to Pakistan for decades. Also, we hear from the Taliban foreign minister who has called on western countries to develop closer diplomatic and economic ties with Afghanistan. Israel says it's captured a senior member of Hamas in Gaza - as Palestinian medics say two children and a woman were killed. Norway's King Haakon pledges an oath of allegiance to the constitution as his father lies in state. A Russian drone and missile barrage kills at least 12 in the capital of Ukraine. Researchers say cancer treatment in mornings could double survival time.The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight.Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.ukPhoto: Afghan returnees deported from Pakistan arriving at the Torkham crossing Credit: AFP via Getty