Humanitarian Crisis

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• War’s ‘Lost Boy’ grows up to graduate from college

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Kuol Dut was six when the swirling chaos of war churned through his village. He recalls playing in a field as neighbors raced toward him, screaming about militias attacking their homes. Even a boy of Kuol’s age knew that militias and soldiers slaughtered men, women and children in the ...
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• Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Aid in War-torn Congo: Video Report

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  This video is a report from Doctors without Borders (MSF) on their ongoing efforts to deliver much-needed medical aid to civilian populations across the war-torn Democratic Republican of Congo. MSF got into delivering aid to the DR Congo after the ethnic clashes in Rwanda that turned into the brutal Rwandan genocide. ...
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• MSF Says DR Congo Military Killed Civilians at Vaccination Clinics

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF/Doctors without Borders) is accusing the military of the Democratic Republic of Congo of firing on civilians at vaccination clinics it was running. MSF goes as far as to allege it was “used” as a means of luring large numbers of civilians to 7 different locations where Congolese ...
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• Thanksgiving comes early for Iraqi refugees in Knoxville

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  The war in Iraq hits home for many people in Tennessee, especially during the holidays. For a group of Iraqis in Knoxville, the war ultimately forced them seek refuge in the United States where they now celebrate American holidays. Sunday afternoon, several local families hosted a Thanksgiving party at Jubilee Farms ...
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• Proud homecoming for former refugee

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le salutes two Vietnamese officers during a welcoming ceremony in Danang.  DANANG, Vietnam - On the day his family’s side lost the Vietnam War, 5-year-old Hung Ba Le fled his homeland in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming - ...
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• One of Sudan’s Lost Boys visits University of Tampa, shares harrowing story

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  Valentino Achak Deng’s suffering led eventually to his moving book, which made it possible for him return to help his native village. Above is the Marial Bai Secondary School he built. TAMPA - The 7-year-old boy ran as militiamen destroyed his village. He trekked through the wilderness for hundreds of miles, ...
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• Iraqi refugees in New Jersey are finding a new kind of struggle

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  Saif Alnasseri was a prominent pharmacist in Iraq, and now he lives in Plainfield with his wife, mother and daughter, Sarah, 3, pictured here reading a story to her father. He is struggling to make ends meet while working as a Pharmacist’s assistant at Walgreens making $10 an hour. (David Gard/New Jersey Local News ...
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• The Siege on Gaza Continues

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 483
  While Israel bears direct responsibility for the persecution of the Gaza Palestinians, many others are complicit. Most complicit is the Obama Administration, which has done nothing to end the siege,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Goldstone Commission member Desmond Travers

  
  From the field — Authority: 416
  "5. What is your view of the claim by Israeli officials that the IDF is the most “moral” army in the world? "Given the tactics, the weapons used, and the indiscriminate targeting, I think this is a dubious claim."
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• Falun Gong Refugees Find Comfort in New Zealand

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  There’s a legend in China that the udumbara flower blossoms only once every 3,000 years.[Sanpu He, Falun Gong Practitioner]: “I saw two bunches of small white flowers on the window and iron bar. The flowers were very small and had long branches.” In Buddhism, the flower symbolizes a blessing from the heavens. ...
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• EU calls for inquiry into Sri Lankan abuse allegations

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Luxembourg, Oct 28 (IANS) The European Union (EU) foreign ministers have expressed concern over the human rights situation in Sri Lanka and called for “an independent and credible enquiry” into alleged violation of international humanitarian law, EuAsiaNews reported.“The EU remains seriously concerned with ...
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• English classes help build confidence among refugees from Bhutan

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  Refugee students attend an English class at one of the camps in eastern Nepal. (Source: UNHCR) BELDANGI II CAMP, Nepal, October 21 (UNHCR) - At an age when most people are enjoying retirement, Jay has started going to school to prepare for his future. The 64-year-old is among the more than 9,000 refugees from ...
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• Interview with Mairead Maguire

  
  PalCast — Authority: 121
  Mairead Maguire was 32 when she and Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976. We talk with her from Ireland about her work for peace in Palestine. Maguire was on the ship Spirit of Humanity en route to Gaza when it was boarded by Israeli commandos. This program was produced by Redeye Co-op Radio on September ...
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• Ethiopia Needs Food Aid for 6.2 Million

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  The government of Ethiopia has issued an emergency appeal for food aid to prevent 6.2 million people from falling into chronic hunger. The collapse of harvests and prolonged severe drought conditions has made it near impossible for Ethiopia to provide food for its surging population. The new aid plea has international ...
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• Young Somali refugee born in exile looks forward to resettlement after a hard life

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  © UNHCR/K.G.Egziabher"> Hodan gets ready to board a bus that will take her to Addis Ababa from Kebribeyah Refugee Camp. © UNHCR/K.G.Egziabher KEBRIBEYAH REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia, October 1 (UNHCR) - Hodan Mawlid has spent almost all of her life in a baking, dusty refugee camp in Ethiopia, yet the 18-year-old ...
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• Families divided as Bhutan refugees start new lives

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  A Bhutanese refugee shopkeeper looks out from his shop in a camp in eastern Nepal BELDANGI REFUGEE CAMP, Nepal - Chandrakhar Adhikari does not know whether he will ever see his two brothers again. Earlier this year, the pair left the refugee camp in Nepal where the family had lived for 17 years for a new life in ...
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• 40,000 Flee New Fighting in the Congo

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  A recent upsurge in fighting between the Lord’s Resistance Army and soldiers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has displaced 40,000 people, adding to the nearly half a million persons already uprooted by the conflict. Relief groups are calling for urgent aid to help civilians in the northern part of the the ...
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• Water Resource Depletion Threatens Global Food Supply

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 502
  Water resource depletion leads not only to chronic scarcity of clean, safe drinking water for increasing numbers of people, but means arable land is harder to cultivate and to maintain. Persistent drought and accelerated desertification (the expansion of deserts into the farmed and/or built environment) are results of ...
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• For Sri Lanka’s displaced, help in returning home

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  © UNHCR/B.Baloch"> © UNHCR/B.Baloch. Alaguratnam Ravindran and his wife, Yumanaran, in their rice paddy, which is due to be harvested next month. MORAWEWA, Sri Lanka, September 4 (UNHCR) – Alaguratnam Ravindran was just three years old when his family fled their small farm in eastern Sri Lanka in the ...
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