OPINION: Current on current events? Show what you know with #WeKnowAleppo
If you, like many millennials around the world, feel the need to disprove the common stereotype of youth ignorance, you can use the hashtag made by Global Student Square.
Day after encampment sweep, refugees return to central Paris
Thirty-four hours after police evacuated a migrant encampment in central Paris, refugees were slowly trickling back to the rough street community that was their home.
Lost at sea: Latest count of refugees missing or feared dead crossing the Mediterranean
By Léa Moukanas GSS Correspondent PARIS — Bodies on a beach, frantic faces in a crowd, tired eyes of travelers who hope for an end to their journeys but may get none. Children and their families who are migrating from…
OPINION: Twitter terror ban a start, but youth need education to combat ISIS message
By Megumi Sano GSS Correspondent PARIS — Currently, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or the so-called ISIS, is expanding its territory across Syria and Iraq. ISIS is a jihadist extremist militant group and has been recruiting thousands…
Tracing the difference between Islam and ISIS on Twitter
STOCKTON, California — President Obama, GOP presidential candidates, and U.S. governors spoke out today on the subject of Islam and Muslim migrants today amid growing calls for restrictions on refugee flows. In a press conference in Antalya, Turkey, where he attended a…
Opinion: Consider photos that have changed hearts, minds — and history
By Jack Campbell, GSS correspondent PARIS — Empathy is a key feature of humanity; it makes us who we are. However, recent history has made us more isolationist than ever before. As the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe shows, society today…
Where the world goes to school: Photos capture “first day” for refugee students
OAKLAND, California — What am I going to do today? Who am I going to meet? Am I going to have the same friends in class as last year? No matter where in the world they are, these are the questions on…
World at “breaking point” with refugee flows, UN official says
By Casey Miller and Jack Hennessy Global Student Square staff writers The world is at a “breaking point” with millions of refugees overwhelming nations such as Lebanon, Yemen and Turkey, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Alexander Aleinikoff told an…