April Humble

April Humble works as a researcher on climate change, human security and adaptation and is part of the secretariat of the Earth League. With a background in conflict resolution, she also writes on border security and human rights.

Borders of our mind

Our leaders and media have proclaimed people on the move as swarms, coaches, criminals and rapists and succeeded in politicising and demonising the age-old human behaviour of migration.

By April Humble

/ 26 Jan 2017

Borders of our mind

Our leaders and media have proclaimed people on the move as swarms, coaches, criminals and rapists and succeeded in politicising and demonising the age-old human behaviour of migration.

By April Humble

/ 26 Jan 2017

Boats in the night

"Even if we didn’t do a perfect job, we could do something together. It would be better than nothing and certainly better than the absence of support offered by our governments".

By April Humble

/ 2 Dec 2015

Boats in the night

"Even if we didn’t do a perfect job, we could do something together. It would be better than nothing and certainly better than the absence of support offered by our governments".

By April Humble

/ 2 Dec 2015

Why I am going to Kos

After seeing images of children's bodies washed up on European shores, I made a decision to go to one of the main receiving islands: Kos.

By April Humble

/ 13 Sep 2015

Why I am going to Kos

After seeing images of children's bodies washed up on European shores, I made a decision to go to one of the main receiving islands: Kos.

By April Humble

/ 13 Sep 2015

Climate-chaos migrants set to face increasingly closed borders

Climate change is set to trigger dangerously soaring temperatures this century, forcing many of humankind’s most vulnerable to migrate to survive. Yet the growing global obsession with border security will stifle their safe movement.

By April Humble

/ 2 Mar 2015

Trapped by borders, a global flotsam and jetsam

They arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling victim to proliferating border-security regimes.

By April Humble

/ 16 Jun 2014