Omer Karasapan

MUMBAI/INDIA - MAY 11, 2020: Migrant workers walk on the highway on their journey back home during a nationwide lockdown to fight the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

International Migrants Day and COVID-19

Friday, December 18, 2020

A girl walks near her house destroyed in an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Faj Attan village, Sanaa, Yemen December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi

Yemen’s children: A crisis within a crisis

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Foreign workers sit on the street after losing their jobs, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 7, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri

Pandemic highlights the vulnerability of migrant workers in the Middle East

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Sister of ten-year-old malnourished girl Afaf Hussein holds a pot of rice she cooked in their kitchen outside their house in the village of al-Jaraib in the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Middle East food security amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Security men wearing protective masks stand on a street during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo

Yemen and COVID-19: The pandemic exacts its devastating toll

Monday, June 15, 2020

A migrant sells old shoes as he sits on the side of a road, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during the holy month of Ramadan in Misrata, Libya May 3, 2020. Picture taken May 3, 2020. REUTERS/Ayman Al-Sahili

Libya and its migrants confront new threats

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

SAADA, YEMEN- In the photos taken on February 4, 2020, it shows a displaced persons camp in Razih district in Saada province, Yemen, on February 4, 2020. In Yemen, 12 percent of the population is displaced after almost four years of conflict and 4.7 million children need humanitarian assistance to continue their education. Across the country, two million children do not go to school.

Yemen’s civilians: Besieged on all sides

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A Syrian refugee woman stands outside a tent at a camp in Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon January 13, 2020. Picture taken January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

Sharing the burden of the global refugee crisis

Monday, January 27, 2020

Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ahmed, 27, his future wife Hanin, 18, and Hanin's mother Turki visit a pastry shop the day before their engagement party in Kilis, Turkey, March 10, 2017. Ahmed's and Hanin's journey started amid Syria's conflict and brought the two Palestinians from their homes in Damascus' suburbs to Turkey. They were introduced in the winter of 2017. As they lived in different cities, they texted for months before Ahmed took a 20-hour bus trip from Izmir to the border town of Kilis to meet her, which led to their engagement. REUTERS/Ekaterina Anchevskaya SEARCH "SYRIA MIGRANTS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1460F5A5A0

Turkey’s Syrian refugees—the welcome fades

Monday, November 25, 2019

Syrian refugee Omayma al Hushan, 14, who launched an initiative against child marriage among Syrian refugees, speaks to her friends about her initiative at a school in Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - GF10000397998

Forced displacement and child marriage: A growing challenge in MENA

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Wednesday, June 19, 2019