Gil Loescher - openDemocracy

Home from home? The journey to a better refugee policy

The root cause leading people to leave their homes should be addressed first, and failing that, refugees should be granted asylum without hesitation, as the ultimate himan right. [Reposted from openDemocracy, June 2003]

By Gil Loescher and James Milner

/ 30 Sep 2015

Researching for humanity: the death of Arthur Helton & the survival of Gil Loescher

In August 2003, a terror attack blasted apart the UN headquarters in Iraq. Inside, Gil Loescher and Arthur Helton were sitting down to interview Sergio Vieira de Mello for their joint openDemocracy column. Adam Ramsay speaks to Gil ten years on.

By Adam Ramsay and Gil Loescher

/ 30 Aug 2013

Living after tragedy: the UN Baghdad bomb, one year on

One year ago, on 19 August 2003, a suicide bomber attacked the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. The results were devastating. Twenty-two people were killed: fifteen United Nations officials – among

By Gil Loescher

/ 19 Aug 2009

Refugees’ world

In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. Forty-nine of openDemocracy’s distinguished contributors, from Mariano Aguirre to Slavoj Zizek, Neal Ascherson to Jonathan Zittrain – offer their predictions for the com

By Gil Loescher

/ 22 Dec 2005

'I was not going to die in the rubble'

“The security situation in Iraq is improving day by day. It is under control now”. These were Paul Bremer’s parting words to Arthur Helton and me at our briefing

By Gil Loescher

/ 4 Dec 2003

Destination Baghdad

Is the Coalition winning the peace in Iraq? This question, on the minds of many American and British officials and citizens, as well as others around the world, has been

By Gil Loescher and Arthur C. Helton

/ 7 Aug 2003

NGOs and governments in a new humanitarian landscape

KEY POINTS - Even before the fighting had finished in Iraq, USAID (the American governments aid agency) had awarded $900 million in contracts to private companies to undertake reconstruction

By Gil Loescher and Arthur C. Helton

/ 23 Jun 2003

Home from home? The journey to a better refugee policy

A key component of the People Flow migration proposal of Theo Veenkamp and his associates is that of international transit centres for asylum-seekers, and protection in regions of refugee origin

By Gil Loescher and James Milner

/ 17 Jun 2003

Asylum crisis in the UK and Europe

Even a cursory glance at the headlines of British tabloids these days indicates that the issues of asylum and migration have risen to the top of the national political and

By Gil Loescher

/ 21 May 2003

Food and the politics of humanitarian access in Iraq

KEY POINTS - Iraq will be the subject of the largest food assistance programme ever undertaken by the WFP. - Some $500 million in contributions for food assistance has been

By Gil Loescher and Arthur C. Helton

/ 6 May 2003

Iraq: lurching toward recovery

KEY POINTS - Specialised UN agencies such as UNHCR (refugees), Unicef (children), and WFP (food) have legal mandates that enable them to resume their humanitarian work, as long as security

By Gil Loescher and Arthur C. Helton

/ 16 Apr 2003

Internally displaced persons in Iraq: a potential crisis?

KEY POINTS - The Iraq war has generated no significant refugee flows as yet, but large numbers of Kurds (in the north) and Shia (in the south) were already

By Gil Loescher and Arthur C. Helton

/ 9 Apr 2003