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• Canada: Muslim jailed for threats of honour murder against daughter seen as ‘hero’

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  That’s the title blogger Grace has given to her post at Vlad Tepes blog on a legal case involving a threat of honor killing in Canada.  I’m going to add this important blog to our blogroll. This is what Grace says regarding the article in the Ottawa Citizen about jailed cab driver,Yusef Al Mezel, an Iraqi ...
  3 days ago

• Fleeing into Limbo - Stories from the Iraqi diaspora in Lebanon and Syria

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 457
  In Lebanon, there are an estimated 50,000 Iraqi refugees, while in Syria, there are more than one million. The refugees are scattered throughout densely populated urban areas, making it difficult for aid agencies to make contact and yielding what the United Nations High Commission for Refugees is calling an “urban ...
  4 days ago

• Iraqis in Nebraska: “there are always bumps”

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  Here is another of those basic template stories, this time from Nebraska.  (The second Nebraska Iraqi refugee story in two days!)   A nice family is featured.   They can’t go home to Iraq for this reason or that reason.  They couldn’t survive in Jordan and so despite the fact that jobs are scarce and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iraqi refugees move to Mich. despite economy

  
  Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority: 148
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  2 weeks ago

• Former Iraqi refugee is an Army National Guard recruiter in Nebraska

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  Here is a revealing story about how a former Iraqi interpreter now using his skills in the National Guard in Nebraska struggles to dispel the negative image of Muslims in the military in the wake of the massacre at Ft. Hood.  He seems like a decent and sincere man who is happy to be in America, but one section of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not all that “welcoming” in Sweden; girls convicted for harrassing refugees

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  This is an update of a story we reported last May, here .    Seems that the country highly praised for its generosity to immigrants has its refugee conflicts on-going as well.  Swedish girls involved in the “mob” attack on an apartment building housing Iraqi refugees have been convicted of terrorizing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Asst. Secretary for refugees says Iraq needs to do more for refugees

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  But, he also says we are planning on taking another 17,000 this fiscal year as well! From AP : BAGHDAD — The Iraqi government has taken strides to help refugees displaced by the violence in the country over recent years return home, but still “needs to do a heck of a lot more,” a U.S. official said Saturday. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Refugee overload in “Little Baghdad,” El Cajon, CA; summit attempts to find new model

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  Here is one more story about refugee overload, this time from the San Diego area.  A refugee summit held November 6th sought to find answers about what to do about the flood of refugees arriving and suggestions were made for a new “national model.’ From East County Magazine : November 12, 2009 (El Cajon) ...
  3 weeks ago

• Noor Almaleki dies, victim of honor killing

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  The Arizona Republic misleadingly headlines the story Woman in Peoria hit-and-run incident dies from injuries . Ann has been following this story here and here . The current Arizona Republic article begins: A 20-year-old Valley woman has died of injuries sustained in what prosecutors are calling an “honor ...
  5 weeks ago

• Iraqi suspect in Arizona ‘honor killing’ attempt arrested in Atlanta

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  The Iraqi Muslim immigrant who ten days ago ran over his daughter and a friend in Arizona in what is being described as an ‘honor killing’ attempt was arrested in Atlanta Thursday after being returned from the UK where he had tried to gain entry.  Here is the whole story tonight from News Runner : An Iraqi ...
  5 weeks ago

• New Message

  
  Friends of the World Food Program: Uniting to End Hunger — Authority: 133
  Refugees will now be receiving food aid via text message:the United Nations World Food Program has developed a food aid through mobilephone system for Iraqi refugees in Syria, the first of its kind. Once the textmessage is received, the recipient can use the code in the text message as afood voucher at certain ...
  6 weeks ago

• Mobile Phones Deliver Food to Iraqi Refugees | WFP | United …

  
  CTRL-F5 — Authority: 157
  Aid agencies have used phone messages and ATM cards to transfer cash to those in need, but this is believed to be the first time mobiles have been used to deliver food vouchers. Schemes involving vouchers are particularly useful in …
  6 weeks ago

• UNHCR criticizes UK, Denmark and Sweden for returning Iraqi asylum seekers to Iraq

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 553
  Not unexpected, from the BBC : The United Nations refugee agency has criticised European countries for sending asylum seekers back to central Iraq, an area it considers unsafe. It said people fleeing the region needed international protection because of security concerns and what it called “serious human rights ...
  6 weeks ago

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