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Refugee camps can wreak enormous environmental damages – should source countries be liable for them?

  • Written by Leonard Hammer, Director of Outreach and Development, Human Rights Practice Graduate Programs, University of Arizona
Refugee camps can wreak enormous environmental damages – should source countries be liable for them?Tents in a Rohingya refugee camp cluster on a muddy hillside in Bangladesh.Saleh Ahmed, CC BY-ND

While it may seem that much of the world has been locked down during the past pandemic year, more than 80 million people are currently on the move – unwillingly.

Facing conflict in Syria, human rights violations in Myanmar and violence in Eritrea,...

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