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• Refugee camp gone “green”

  
  Stockholm College — Authority: 123
  A refugee camp is perhaps not the first place where you would imagine a conservation project. But in the western highlands of Ethiopia, this has become reality. Refugees in camps are often associated with environmental destruction and UNHCR, realizing that this perception needed to change, initiated the conservation ...
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• Publications: Child Asylum Claims, COP15 Roundup, Discrimination Guidelines, Protracted Situations, Top 10 Humanitarian Crises

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 127
  Combating Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance through a Strategic Approach (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]- See related press release.Conclusion on protracted refugee situations, No. 109 (LX) - 2009 (EXCOM, Dec. 2009) [text]COP15 Roundup from a Climate Change, Migration and Displacement Focus ...
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• Yemen: Human rights abuses largely ignored by the outside world

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 148
  Human Rights Watch - Press Release: - For several years, tens of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees fleeing to Yemen from the volatile Horn of Africa region have endured terrible human rights abuses that have gone largely ignored by the outside world. Many have suffered violence or lost their lives while ...
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• UNHCR condemns Cambodia’s return of Chinese Uighurs

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 600
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) has denounced Cambodia’s forced return to China of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers before their claims were heard. The Geneva-based organization said it was “deeply distressed” at the news and concerned that “a disturbing ...
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• China Praises Cambodia As Uighurs Deported

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 564
  From Reuters : China will deal with 20 ethnic Uighurs who were deported from Cambodia over the weekend as illegal immigrants, praising relations with the Southeast Asian country as a model of good cooperation. The comments came as a top Chinese official began a visit to Phnom Penh to boost commercial ties. The ...
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• Yemen: Asylum Seekers Run Gauntlet of Abuses

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 665
  (New York) - The Yemeni government should stop systematically arresting Ethiopian asylum seekers and forcibly returning them to Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch also called on the United Nations refugee agency to do more to press the Yemeni government to meet its ...
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  Iraqi Solidarity News (Al-Thawra) — Authority: 131
  Child Labor Booming Rachelle Kliger Child labor is becoming a growing problem among impoverished Iraqi refugees in Syria. A growing number of Iraqi refugee children in Syria have joined the illegal child labor market to help their families make ends meet, United Nations officials have warned. Syria has taken in ...
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• Kenya: Health - "You must either prepare to mourn or celebrate when your wife gets pregnant"

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 148
  Young girls go in search of water in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya (file photo)In remote northeastern Kenya, poor healthcare, a harsh climate and an ever-growing influx of refugees conspire to make preventable and treatable diseases more deadly than elsewhere in the country."You must either prepare to mourn or celebrate ...
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• New Zealand to consider taking rescued Tamil refugees

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Auckland, Dec 18(ANI): New Zealand Government has said that it will consider taking some of the 78 Tamil boatpeople rescued by the Oceanic Viking, after the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Indonesia determined them all to be refugees.The Tamils were rescued at sea by an Australian customs ...
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• Publications: Asylum Stats/EU, EXCOM Conclusions, IDPs/Colombia, Migrants Rights, Zimbabweans/S. Africa

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 127
  75 thousand asylum seekers granted protection status in the EU in 2008 (EUROSTAT, Nov. 2009) [text]Asylum decisions in the EU27: EU Member States granted protection to 76 300 asylum seekers in 2008 (EUROSTAT, Dec. 2009) [text]Conclusions Adopted by the Executive Committee on the International Protection of Refugees ...
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• UNHCR: Not safe to send Iraqis back to central areas

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 469
  Image by Getty Images via Daylife Source: AlertNet By Stephanie Nebehay European countries should stop forcibly returning Iraqis to Iraqs central provinces until security improves, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have repatriated hundreds ...
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• Syria: Poverty driving child labour among Iraqi refugees

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 148
  Aseel (left) and her mother working at homeAseel Ali*, aged 16, and her mother - both refugees from Iraq - earn just enough (US$174 per month between them) in a Damascus handicraft workshop to pay their rent and buy food.“I have to help my mother as our savings ran out,” Aseel told IRIN. “We start early in the ...
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• Pakistan: Situation of homosexuals in urban centres, particularly in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 469
  Image by JAMALadi via Flickr Source: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (via UNHCR ) Evidence of open and active gay communities in urban centres of Pakistan, including Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore, could not be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate. Specific information relating ...
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• Justin Timberlake And Jessica Biel Promote Charity Climb

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 559
  Written by Tim Saunders Justin Timberlake joined Jessica Biel , Isabel Lucas , Kenna, James Vander Beek, Zach Braff , JoJo and Devon Aoki at a special Summit on the Summit Kilimanjaro Pre-Ascent event held at Voyeur in West Hollywood on Wednesday, December 9. The group was celebrating their upcoming ...
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• „UNHCR – Annual Prison Census 2009- Burma“

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
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• Angelina Jolie’s op-ed piece on Darfur in Newsweek

  
  Pitt Watch — Authority: 422
  I always love when Angelina Jolie writes op-ed pieces about the countries she tries to help through her work with the UNHCR . In her latest editorial, Angelina writes about the dire situation in Darfur , a place she knows well through her visits and research to raise awareness. I particularly liked this ...
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• Zalmai’s UNHCR exhibit shows plight of urban refugees

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 600
  Children play in front of Eliécer Baron’s home in Cartagena. The community leader organized neighbours to build a school for displaced children and they are now looking for computers to equip it. A preview of the Colombian photos in the exhibit is available on UNHCR’s flickr pages Geneva, Switzerland ...
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• Climate Refugees Could Number 1 Billion by 2050

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 109
  Climate refugees in central Zimbabwe. Photo via EcoWorldy While the disastrous consequences of climate change may seem a ways off for some in the developed world, the International Organization for Migration reported today that it has already driven an estimated 24 million people from their homes–a number, they ...
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• Research Rpts. & Working Papers: Climate Change & Displ./Africa, Humanit. Action/Georgia, Iraqi Refugees, Sexual Orientation & Asylum, UNGA & UNHCR

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 127
  Anatomy of a Resolution: the General Assembly in UNHCR history, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 182 (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]Climate change, disaster, displacement and migration: initial evidence from Africa, New Issues in Refugee Research, no. 180 (UNHCR, Dec. 2009) [text]Fleeing for love: asylum seekers and ...
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• Urban refugees struggle to make ends meet in South Africa

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 109
  PRETORIA, South Africa, December 7 (UNHCR) - Telmore Mutinhima struggles to sleep on his grimy, threadbare mattress on an early South African morning. It’s his most treasured possession - it’s his only possession.There’s the odour of unwashed bodies in the abandoned warehouse where he lies in a cubicle amid ...
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