Humanitarian Efforts
In 2006 and 2007 Fahey spent time in Afghanistan assisting the newly-established American University of Afghanistan, and launching a project to assist orphans in Kabul.
Fahey's recent humanitarian work has revolved around the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, in which he has been focusing on the subject of warehousing, a practice in which the rights and mobility of refugees is restricted by a host country. Mr. Fahey's work specifically has addressed the subject of warehoused Sahrawi refugees in Algeria.
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