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    Advancing Safe Migration Through Sport: Qatar Hosts Dialogue on Prevention of Trafficking in Sporting...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Doha, 15 January 2025 – The fight against human trafficking in sport must extend beyond the final whistle, IOM Deputy Director General...

    Haiti Displacement Triples Surpassing One Million as Humanitarian Crisis Worsens

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva/ Port-au-Prince, 14 January 2024 – More than a million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, according to alarming new...

    270+ “No to Trump” Actions on January 18 — By Ted Glick

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ted Glick – *Originally posted January 8, 2025. With 10 days left to mobilize, it is clear that the People’s March, initiated...

    Trump’s Team is Coming for Climate Science. The Timing Couldn’t Be Worse. By Ben...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  It is official: 2024 was the hottest year on record. Temperatures not only surpassed 2023 as the previous hottest...

    Is Culture the Key Crisis in Black Life?

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Mon., Jan. 13, 2025, Edition of Vantage Point On this episode of Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels, also known as The Professor,...

    Intensifying Our Righteous and Relentless Struggle

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — This is a necessary revisiting of a critical issue, reclaiming King in the turbulent and taxing context...

    IOM Appeals for USD 73 Million as It Expands Its Presence Inside Syria

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva, 9 January 2025 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is expanding its appeal for Syria to USD 73.2 million...

    The Passing of Peter Yarrow & Reflections on the 1963 March on Washington

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In this heartfelt recording of Reflections with The Professor from Vantage Point, Dr. Ron Daniels honors the legacy of Peter Yarrow,...

    Uganda’s military head says he wants to behead opposition leader

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Uganda’s military chief, makes alarming threats against opposition leader Bobi Wine, claiming his father’s protection is the only thing...

    In its final days, the Biden administration delivers big time for America’s coastal communities

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  It may be the dead of winter, but when we think about our beaches none of us want...

    Jimmy Carter – Faith in Action

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — As our beloved 37th President’s body makes its way from Plains, Georgia to Atlanta to the US Capitol to...

    The Ugly Irony of Jan 6th: Certifying the Election of an Insurrectionist

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » News & Current Affairs » Vantage Point Radio » Professor on the Soapbox: The Ugly...

    Culture as the Key Crisis in Black Life with Dr. Maulana Karenga

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). January 6, 2025 Edition of Vantage Point The Professor, Dr. Ron Daniels is joined by special guest Dr. Maulana Karenga, Creator of...

    Gaza Winter Deaths Are Preventable: Ceasefire, Access Needed for Shelter Aid

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Geneva, 03 January 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply alarmed by the devastating impact of winter rains...

    Emancipation and Haitian Independence Day message from Dr. Ron Daniels

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Originally recorded on January 1, 2025 — An Emancipation and Haitian Independence Day message from Dr. Ron Daniels, President of the...

    Contribute to the HSP Haiti Crisis Fund

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yes, I want to help the Haiti Support Project in its efforts to assist Haiti to resolve the current crisis and...

    Contribute to the HSP Haiti Crisis Fund

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yes, I want to help the Haiti Support Project in its efforts to assist Haiti to resolve the current crisis and...

    January 11, 2025 forum and rally in support of The First Black Republic

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). You Are Here: Home » Blog » News & Current Affairs » Events » Haitian Independence Day at Rainbow PUSH: January 11,...

    IOM Chief Visits Lebanon to Strengthen Humanitarian and Migration Management Cooperation

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Beirut, 18 December 2024 – Amid the recent ceasefire and pivotal regional developments, Director General Amy Pope visited Lebanon from 17-18...

    IOM and Japan Mark 25 Years of Partnership with Emergency Preparedness and Climate-Resilient Infrastructure...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Bobonaro, Timor-Leste – As the rainy season looms, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), together with the Embassy of Japan in...

    Contribute to the HSP Haiti Crisis Fund

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Yes, I want to help the Haiti Support Project in its efforts to assist Haiti to resolve the current crisis and...

    The Liberty in Laundry Act Sounds Like a Joke. Sadly It’s Not.

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  The incoming Trump administration is supposedly interested in “efficiency.” It has a whole quasigovernmental department – the Elon...

    Principles and Practices of Lived Pan-Africanism

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the words our honored ancestors used to describe our “rising in radiance”, the world encompassing embrace...

    Responding to Syria at a Time of Need; Statement by IOM Chief

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Statement delivered by IOM Director General Amy Pope at the United Nations Media Briefing in Geneva I have just returned from Damascus,...