Refugees

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• Photos from Saturday’s March and Demonstration for NK Human Rights

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 521
  I would love to write more, but at least for now, here are some photos from Saturday’s March from near City Hall (actually, just to the right of the Deoksu Palace) to Seoul Station, where we joined a somewhat larger collection of groups assembled to call for freedom for North Koreans and meant to coincide with ...
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• Good and bad ways to reduce boat arrivals

  
  Bartlett's Blog — Authority: 112
  Peter Mares is a long time follower of refugee issues and critic of the problems inherent in the former government’s approach to asylum seekers in boats.  He wrote a piece in The Age which emphasised a point about the Howard’s government asylum policies which does not get highlighted enough. former ...
  11 hours ago

• Italy does the job on refugees

  
  Andrew Bartlett — Authority: 540
  While the asylum seeker debate continues here, it is worth looking at approaches taken to refugees in other ‘developed’ countries.  Italy continues to set the pace when it comes to rich continues blatantly breaching human rights laws and putting refugees lives at risk.  They have reached an agreement with Libya ...
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• Palestine Pre-1947

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 550
  The old lie that palestine was dry desert waiting for a people is just that–a lie. This clip for all people to see the Beauty of the Palestinian People before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered and made into refugees by the State of Israe. Music Joaquin Rodrigo, lyrics Helmut Lotti, sung by Lotti All Photos ...
  12 hours ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 433
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• The new underclass

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 539
  Who haven’t heard of immigration queue jumpers? The current federal government used this term when it shut down visa-free travel from the Czech Republic and Mexico. Federal officials blamed queue jumping refugee claimants. But if someone jumps the queue, it’s not refugees as much as it is temporary guest workers. ...
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• Adjutant Australia: Controlling Boat People

  
  groundviews — Authority: 554
  The ongoing brouhaha around the boat people ‘storming’ Australian maritime waters displays two tendencies in Australian politics and its cultural underpinnings. The first tendency, A, is the insidious influence of a long-standing hostility to potentially subversive foreign elements. The second dimension, B, is a ...
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• مخيم نهر البارد

  
  3arabawy — Authority: 145
  Spread the word! [IMG: http://arabist.net/arabawy/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/digg.png][IMG: http://arabist.net/arabawy/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/delicious.png][IMG: http://arabist.net/arabawy/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/facebook.png][IMG: ...
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• Holocaust Hero Chiune Sugihara

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 789
  Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara was stationed in Lithuania when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Thousands of Jewish refugees came to the consulate seeking travel documents in order to escape the Nazis. Sugihara’s superiors in Tokyo ordered him not to issue any travel visas. Sugihara discussed the plan with ...
  2 days ago

• Build a culture of hospitality

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 144
  City of Sanctuary is a movement to build a culture of hospitality for asylum seekers and refugees Walkers follow in refugees’ steps A sponsored walk traces the route taken by Leicester asylum seekers required to report to an immigration centre 25 miles away. ...
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• Burma: Burmese refugees at risk in Malaysia (video report)

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  To date there are more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma, including Buddhist monks and one Nobel Peace Laureate.Military and civilian officials are involved in the unlawful conscription of child soldiers and wide-spread acts of forced labor inside of Burma. Visit www.pleasedontsaymyname.org for more ...
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• Borders

  
  Times LIVE Multimedia — Authority: 147
  The Times photographer LEBOHANG MASHILOANE is currently taking part in Bamako Encounters, the Biennial of African Photography in Mali. View his images of xenophobia in South Africa for his entry on this year¹s theme - “Borders”.
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• My Big Day

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 500
  Last May, a professor of mine told me about an upcoming project, a book on refugees in Cairo. I was an undergraduate student and May is the worst month of the year for me. I didn’t ask a lot of information about the book, my mind was bogged down with deadlines, endless papers and 2 books I have to read in about 5 ...
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• Disguising the detention of children | Henry Porter

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  It is difficult to think of two more sinister New Labour figures than Phil Woolas, minister for immigration, and Lady Delyth Morgan , parliamentary under-secretary for children. They are joined in unholy alliance in the foreword to the new government guidelines on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children ...
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• Burmese refugee workers strike, claim discrimination and turn to AFL-CIO

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 485
  I can’t resist saying, I told you so .   Here we have a case from Pennsylvania where recently resettled Burmese refugees have walked off the job with other American workers claiming wage discrimination and unsafe working conditions.  Don’t get me wrong, I am not disputing their claim, I suspect they do have ...
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• One of Sudan’s Lost Boys visits University of Tampa, shares harrowing story

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 112
  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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• US envoy says Obama has proved to be Israel’s best friend

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Tel Aviv (Israel), Nov.5 (ANI): US President Barack Obama is Israel’s “closest friend,” contrary to what many Israelis seem to believe in recent polls, US Ambassador James Cunningham told a Tel Aviv audience on Wednesday. “According to the polls, there is doubt [about Obamas friendship]. Now it’s true that ...
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• Marcus Westbury on why the Australia Council doesn’t get digital culture

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 576
  Above: Escape From Woomera, screenshot. Marcus Westbury’s column for The Age has been exploring some really interesting topics in cultural policy. His most recent column is one of his best. Now  posted on his blog , the article examines the relative responses of the ABC  and the Australia Council to the ...
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• INTERVIEW-Sri Lanka steps up return of war-displaced - U.N.

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 722
  Source: Reuters By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has begun allowing tens of thousands of war-displaced Tamils to return home after months of being held in government-run camps, the head of the ...
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• Australia Puts Its Refugee Problem on a Remote Island, Behind Razor Wire

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  A View of the immigration detention center on Christmas Island.
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