When we talk about refugees, we often talk about numbers. How many crossed the border? How many were granted asylum? How many are “still waiting.” But behind each number is a name. And behind each name, a life filled with resilience, trauma, hope, and the longing to be seen as human.
On June 13, 2025, Philadelphia’s journalism and civic leadership gathered at the Science History Institute for the fourth annual Reimagining Philadelphia Journalism Summit, produced by the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
For many low-income families, Electronic Benefit Transfer was supposed to be a lifeline, offering food assistance with dignity and privacy. But over the last few years, it’s become a target. A loophole. A weapon in the hands of digital thieves.
In a commendable step forward, Nigeria has ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa, commonly referred to as the African Disability Protocol.
In February 2025, participants at the 38th African Union Summit, taking place in Addis Ababa, observed one of the most historical moments, as the African Union launched the African Union 2025 Reparations Agenda. This reparations agenda that addresses centuries of injustices, including transatlantic slavery, colonial expropriation, and structural underdevelopment, will lay a foundation for healing and sometime in the future restoration.
Access to quality healthcare has remained one of the critical focuses of the millennium development goals the 189 member states of the United Nations signed up to at the September global summit held at the UN headquarters in New York in 2000. These goals, which included improving maternal and child health, were succeeded by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015 and effective from January 1, 2016.
On April 11–12, 2025, HAPI, with Cedar Seed Foundation, and in collaboration with Sightsavers, Global Disability Inclusion, and The Leprosy Mission Nigeria, organized a Two-Day Intensive Training on AI Chatbot Development at the Leprosy Mission in Forth Royal Estate, Lugbe, FCT Abuja.
For many refugees from Africa and the Caribbean, the journey to the United States begins not with despair, but with hope. Hope for safety. Hope for opportunity. Hope for dignity. But upon arrival, the realities of resettlement often challenge the very hopes they carried with them.
As Black and Latino students across the U.S. increasingly attend resegregated, underfunded schools, and African nations face their own post-colonial educational hurdles, the call for justice reverberates across the diaspora. The 71st anniversary of Brown v. The Board of Education is not just a moment of remembrance, it is a rallying cry.
In driving their tourism fortunes, many countries shape and reshape their immigration laws to positively impact the industry and attract visitors who’s financial spendings contribute to boosting its economic projections.
