Category: Migration
David Mathieson
David Scott Mathieson is the senior researcher on Myanmar/Burma in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch.
Daniel Feierstein
Daniel Feierstein is a genocide scholar at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a visiting fellow at the International State Crime Initiative.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The UNHRC focuses on refugee situations around the world. António Guterres is the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees. Melissa Fleming is the commissioner’s spokeswoman, [email protected], and other representatives are listed here.
David Scott Mathieson
David Scott Mathieson is a senior researcher in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch. He is an expert on Burma/Myanmar and the Rohingya. Contact via Emma Daly, HRW’s communications director.
Reporting on Islam
While nearly 1 in four people identify as Muslim across the globe, a Pew Research survey in 2019 found that only six-in-ten U.S. adults know that Ramadan is an Islamic holy month and that Mecca is Islam’s holiest city and a place of pilgrimage for Muslims. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. Muslim […]
Marie Marquardt
Marie Marquardt is a scholar-in-residence at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta. She studies Latin American immigrants, gender and migration, multiethnic and multicultural congregations, religious diversity in immigrant communities and religion in civic and public life. She is the founding co-chair of El Refugio Ministry, which serves immigrants detained in Georgia.
Jill Jacobs
Jill Jacobs is a Conservative rabbi and the executive director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, based in New York City. She has written and spoken about Trump administration policies and rising anti-Semitism in many outlets, including The Washington Post and NPR. Arrange an interview through Julie Wiener.
“Living in the shadows: Religion’s response to human trafficking”
This half-hour CBS News special aired Dec. 16, 2013.