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• Thanksgiving comes early for Iraqi refugees in Knoxville

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 113
  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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• Forgotten Refugees - West Balkans

  
  AriRusilas BalkanPerspective — Authority: 108
  The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans - still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escaped to other country, one part is “internally displaced ...
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• Forgotten Refugees – West Balkans

  
  AriRusila's BalkanBlog — Authority: 108
  The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans – still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escaped to other country, one part is “internally displaced ...
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• Proud homecoming for former refugee

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 113
  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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• Tamil women begin new hunger strike off Indonesian coast

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Merak (Java, Indonesia), Nov.9 (ANI): Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike.The move comes after the spokesman for the Tamils, known as Alex, confessed he was once a member of a violent gang in Canada and was jailed ...
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• Publications: Accountability/Humanitarian Staff, Africans/Europe, Climate Refugees, Human Trafficking, Refugee Protection/Central America, UNHCR Plans

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 128
  African Immigrants and Refugees in Europe (BAJI Blog, Nov. 2009) [access]- Series of blog posts from two researchers who are "spending two weeks in Italy and Greece to learn more about the plight of African refugees as they make their way to Europe to find work to support themselves and their families back ...
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• UNHCR in Bangladesh Holds Two-Day Discussion with Burmese Refugees

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 497
  11/5/2009 Cox’sbazar : The UNHCR in Bangladesh held a two-day meeting with urban Burmese refugees in the border town of Cox’s Bazar with the aim of improving conditions for Burmese refugees in Bangladesh, said one refugee U San Mra Aung. “We discussed with UNHCR officials several refugee-related issues at the ...
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• One of Sudan’s Lost Boys visits University of Tampa, shares harrowing story

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 113
  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: 113
  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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• Publications: Detention Alternatives, Palestinian Displacement, Sexual Orientation, Sri Lankans at Sea, Unacc. Minors/France

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 128
  IDC/UNHCR Alternative to Detention EXCOM meeting notes (International Detention Coalition, Sept. 2009) [access]- Includes Powerpoint presentation as well.Life on the Edge: The struggle to survive and the impact of forced displacement in high risk areas of the occupied Palestinian territory (Save the Children, Oct. ...
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• Falun Gong Refugees Find Comfort in New Zealand

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 113
  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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• Publications: AU IDP Convention, Colombian Conflict/Ecuador, Pakistan, Self-Study/Resettlement, UNHCR Report

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 128
  Conflict Beyond Borders: Humanitarian Impact of the Colombian Conflict in Ecuador (IDMC, Oct. 2009) [text via Refworld]Pakistan: Protect People First (Refugees International, Oct. 2009) [text]Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UN Doc. No. A/64/12 (UN General Assembly, 2009) [text via UN ...
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• Government of Zimbabwe withdraws invitation to UN Rapporteur on Torture at the last minute

  
  This is Zimbabwe — Authority: 428
  As previously announced, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, was invited by the Government of Zimbabwe to conduct an official fact-finding mission, from 28 October to 4 November 2009. Upon his arrival in Johannesburg, on transit to Harare, ...
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• Yemen: Challenges facing IDP camp

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 488
  IDPs lining up to get food aid in the al-Mazraq campPoor security, lack of basic infrastructure, the increasing numbers of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and how to accommodate livestock are among the challenges facing the government and aid agencies trying to run IDP camps in northern Yemen, according to Nasim ...
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• English classes help build confidence among refugees from Bhutan

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 113
  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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• Harrowing plight of thousands to flee fighting in South Waziristan

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 150
  People of Waziristan leave home again © 2009 Tariq Saeed/IRIN Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Thousands of people displaced by the two-week old conflict in South Waziristan, in Pakistan’s northwest, are arriving in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, ...
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• Guest Blogger: Alice Edwards

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 480
  Its IntLawGrrls great pleasure to welcome Dr. Alice Edwards (right) as todays guest blogger. Alice, about whose scholarship IntLawGrrl Jaya Ramji-Nogales has posted , is Lecturer in International Refugee and Human Rights Law at the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University in England; shes also a member of ...
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• Rosamond Carr, foremother

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 480
  (Thanks to guest blogger Alice Edwards for her guest post and this tribute to IntLawGrrls newest foremother) Rosamond Carr , with whom Im pictured a right, was a wonderful feminist in her own way, a real humanitarian, mother of Rwanda’s orphans, and a good friend to me. Having started out life in New York as a ...
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• Waziristan Refugee Crisis

  
  Chowrangi — Authority: 469
  After successful Swat offense Pakistan Army is fighting to flush out Taliban and extremists f...
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• Publications: Deport./Greece, Human Traff./UK, Remittances/Africa, Resettled Youth/US, Sahrawi Refugees/Algeria, Unacc. Minors/Africa, UNHCR & Climate

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 128
  Group Rights and International Law: Case Study of the Sahrawi Refugees in Algeria (University Center for Legal Studies & the Moroccan American Center for Policy, Sept. 2009) [text via Refugee Research Network]Life in the Promised Land: Resettled Refugee Youth Struggle in the U.S. (Womens Refugee Commission, Oct. ...
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