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Explore the latest humanitarian policy updates, on-the-ground research, and oral history dispatches documenting the lived realities of displaced single mothers and female-headed households globally.

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From Oral History to Evidence: What Madeleine’s Story Can Teach Us About Humanitarian Research

From Oral History to Evidence: What Madeleine’s Story Can Teach Us About Humanitarian Research

Kristi Dawn Riggs
Published on: 11/09/2026

How can oral histories become qualitative evidence? Using Madeleine’s testimony, The Refugee Archive explores thematic coding, sentiment analysis, and research on displacement.

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The Convention Turns 75. Her Name Is Still Not in It.

The Convention Turns 75. Her Name Is Still Not in It.

Kristi Dawn Riggs
Published on: 13/08/2026

Today, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the same building where delegates signed the 1951 Refugee Convention three-quarters of a century ago, there will be a commemorative event.

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