Caroline Moorehead is a biographer and journalist.

Her eleven books include a history of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Dunant's Dream; a study of pacifists, Troublesome People (Hamish Hamilton, 1987); a biography of Martha Gellhorn (Chatto & Windus, 2003); and a journey among refugees in the modem world, Human Cargo (Picador, 2006).

She wrote a fortnightly openDemocracy column telling stories of refugees and asylum-seekers for between May 2002 and December 2003.

Recent articles

A stream of asylum-seekers fleeing conflict in Sudan presents Israel with a dilemma that Europe has failed to solve, says Caroline Moorehead.

From Baghdad to southern California, the journey of a family from one of the Middle East’s ancient communities is a modern epic of survival.

Imelda and her family are economic migrants, in two directions: hunger led them to cross from Mexico to California, poverty made them return.

Y.K.L survived terrible torments in her West African homeland only to be denied asylum in Britain. On London’s streets, she joins the forgotten, global army of the displaced.

In Burundi, political violence by state forces and guerrillas has killed 200,000 people in the last decade. J.R., the child of a Hutu-Tutsi marriage, survived a savage ordeal at the hands of security forces. Now in Britain, but with no right to remain, his past is a daily torment.