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• Chin, not the same as Burmese refugees

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 443
  As we have come to learn in recent weeks from Cindy in Bowling Green, KY, or Ellen in Ft. Wayne, IN, or Madeleine in the UK, all refugees arriving here from Myanmar (Burma) or more accurately from camps in Thailand are not all Burmese.  In fact, there is quit a bit of hostility between some of these ethnic groups, ...
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• Bangladesh: Rohingya wrangling continues

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 443
  The hot political debate going on between Burma (Myanmar) and Bangladesh, where tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have arrived in recent decades, continues as Myanmar says they will take some back, but the Rohingya are now refusing to go back. From AFP : DHAKA — Bangladesh’s plans to repatriate 9,000 ...
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• Laos denies knowing 158 Hmong hold refugee status, offers resettlement

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 155
  VIENTIANE, Dec 29 (TNA) – A senior Lao official has denied knowing that 158 Hmong repatriated from Nong Khai hold refugee status and have been offered resettlement. Brig-Gen Bouasieng Champaphanh, chairman of the Lao-Thai general border sub-committee represented the Lao government in an official ceremony in Paksan ...
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• WORLD MAJOR EVENTS -Year in Review 2009

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 114
  United Nations 2009 – a year when arctic ice was melting faster than ever before and multiple crises -food, energy, recession or pandemic flu – called for global cooperation on an unprecedented level. At the same time, peacekeepers served in missions around the world and the fight against hunger and poverty ...
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• UN seeks access to Hmong deportees

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  31/12/09The United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR, has asked the government of Laos to allow it access to the more than 4,000 Hmong asylum-seekers recently deported from Thailand. The agency says some of those sent back to Laos have refugee status and need international protection. In a statement, the UN also urged ...
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• Burmese teens die of toxic fumes in Ft. Wayne, IN

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 443
  Two teenagers, believed to be Karen refugees, were found dead this past weekend in a Ft. Wayne garage.  It is not clear what happened, but from this article it sounds like attempting to stay warm might have lead them to their untimely deaths.  Here is what we know so far (by the way, doesn’t Ft. Wayne have ...
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• Handy guide to state refugee agencies

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 443
  Here is a website page at Refugee Works that I came across the other day which lists which government contracting resettlement agencies are in your states.   I see the list may not be completely up-to-date because, for example,  it doesn’t have the new World Relief office in Ft. Wayne, but it’s a good ...
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• Laos tells UN it’s too soon to visit Hmong – Washington Post

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 174
  The Guardian Laos tells UN its too soon to visit Hmong Washington Post AP BANGKOK -- Laos denied the UN immediate access to 4500 ethnic Hmong who were forcibly repatriated from Thailand, saying Wednesday it would "complicate" matters but that international observers could visit later. ... UN ...
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• Hmong refugees forced repatriation

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 155
  Hmongs in a military truck leave from a Phetchabun camp to Laos on Monday. Thailand on 28 December 2009 began deporting 4,000 ethnic Hmong refugees to Laos despite international appeals to the government to reconsider the involuntary repatriation to an un. by Nation Hmong’s sad treatment First, remember that the ...
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• RIGHTS : Thailand Deports Hmong Asylum Seekers to Laos

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 155
  By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Dec 28 (IPS) – In a move that places greater weight on growing regional solidarity over historical ties with a western superpower, Thailand ordered its military to forcibly return over 4,000 men, women and children from the Hmong ethnic community to Laos, the country they had fled ...
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• The news that never seems to see the light of day.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 158
  Detroit terror plot?!? Try false flag operation. Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive) By Sheena Harrison | MLive.com December 26, 2009, 2:22PM haskell pass.jpgKurt HaskellKurt Haskell’s boarding pass for NWA Flight ...
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• Stay calm on refugees

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  30/12/09; Letters, The Daily Telegraph No Internet Text (2 Items)There are more refugees coming from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan going to all other countries. Look up the figures to Europe for heaven’s sake — they get hundreds of thousands. It is because there are wars going on there, not because of some policy ...
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• Twist as Tamil refugees arrive today

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 150
  Paul Maley; 30/12/09; (2 Items)Sixteen Tamil refugees rescued by the Oceanic Viking will begin arriving in Australia today, six via the Christmas Island detention centre. Forty of the Sri Lankan Tamils left Indonesia’s Tanjung Pinang detention centre yesterday morning, courtesy of a special deal underwritten by the ...
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• Radio caller threatens Al Qaeda attacks on targets in Lebanon

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Beirut, Dec 30 (DPA) Two Lebanese radio stations Tuesday reportedly received calls from a person claiming to represent terrorist network Al Qaeda, threatening bomb attacks within that country.The calls to the stations - identified as Radio Sawa and Radio al Mada by Lebanese media - coincided with a report published in ...
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• Rebellious Rhymes from a Destroyed Palestinian Refugee Camp

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 168
  The hip-hop beats ringing through the muddy, unlit streets of the burnt-out Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al-Bared seem incongruous. But the rhymes are camp-grown – and courageous.“I’m Read More......( read more )
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• Buffalo, NY: “culture clash” blamed for Somali children being removed from their parents

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 443
  This story will get your blood boiling on a whole lot of levels!  Basically Social Services in Buffalo has removed 6 Somali children from the home of their 28-year-old mother and an allegedly abusive father.  The mother says she wishes she were back in Africa. Somalian immigrant Malaika Sabtow raised five ...
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• Press release: The Best Friend Helps Families Move Away From Rubbish Dump

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 155
  “They are lovely people and they want to work. That is why they do not want to go to the refugee camps because they can not work there.” Ashin Sopaka, Co-Founder of The Best Friend/Project patron On 1 January 2010, the Relocation Project for the people of the rubbish dump of Mae Sot will be launched. The project ...
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• „Free Burma Rangers — Reports- The Displaced and Rangers Celebrate Christmas Together“

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 155
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• The Vietnamese resettlement: a reminder of refugee resettlement before it became an industry

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 443
  I was thrilled to see this article in the Los Angeles Times the other day because although my experience following refugee issues is relatively brief—going on three years—I had heard how much better resettlement was carried out BEFORE the Refugee Act of 1980 set up a major bureaucracy that in my opinion is ...
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• Solar panels power fresh water desalination MobileMax system

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 141
  With sea levels going up and potable water becoming scarcer, water sanitization systems are gaining more importance. Large scale desalination stations are now being built in Australia. But for residents in remote places experiencing prolonged drought, the only alternative is for water to be transported. Currently, ...
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