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Articles by Baher Kamal

The Polar Boom: Corporations Flock to Melting Arctic for Oil and Trade Routes  

Baher Kamal February 16, 2018 Baher Kamal

As the global demand for fossil fuels rises and the Arctic sea ice continues to melt, multinational corporations are increasing efforts to deepen oil exploration and expand trade routes through the region. While environmentalists see a crisis, corporations see profit.

Migrants sit at a detention center in Gharyan, Libya October 12, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Hani Amara

Libya: Up to One Million Enslaved Migrants, Victims of ‘Europe’s Complicity’

Baher Kamal December 18, 2017 Baher Kamal

“European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya,” Amnesty International charged in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya.

Syrian internally displaced people walk in the Atme camp, along the Turkish border in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, on March 19, 2013. Credit: Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images

The Roots of Global Migration: Why Are People Compelled to Leave Their Homes?

Baher Kamal November 21, 2017 Baher Kamal

There has been a surge in international migration in recent years, reaching a total of 244 million individuals in 2015. Forced displacement has also reached a record high, with 65.3 million individuals displaced worldwide by the end of 2015 – including refugees, internally displaced persons and asylum seekers.

A farmer walks up a hillside close to Medellín, Colombia. The country has the world’s largest population of internally displaced people, many of whom are farmers and indigenous people. Both geography and ethnicity can impact a person’s nutritional status. Credit: 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI)

How Global Hunger Discriminates Based on Gender, Class, Geography, and Ethnicity

Baher Kamal November 14, 2017 Baher Kamal

In a world where only 8 individuals – all of them men—possess as much as half of all the planet’s wealth, and it will take women 170 years to be paid as men are, inequality appears to be a key feature of the current economic model. Now a new study reveals that there is also a widening gap in hunger.

Where Do 50 Million Tons a Year of Toxic E-Waste Go?

Baher Kamal October 31, 2017 Baher Kamal

Each year, the electronics industry generates up to 41 million tons of e-waste, but as the number of consumers rises, and the lifespan of devices shrinks in response to demand for the newest and best, that figure could reach 50 million tons this year.

Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Plastic Tide: Oceans Set to Contain More Plastic Than Fish by 2050

Baher Kamal October 23, 2017 Baher Kamal

The UN estimates that there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050 – with over 5 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 260,000 tonnes currently floating in the world’s oceans. “Right when we need them the most, we are losing these crucial ecosystems,” the UN warns.

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