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• Top 10 diplomatic events in India (Flashback 2009)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  By Manish ChandNew Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) A contentious India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh and a deepening chill in bilateral ties, strains in Sino-Indian relations, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to the US as the first state guest of the Obama White House…Here are some defining diplomatic ...
  5 days ago

• Publications: Child Asylum Claims, COP15 Roundup, Discrimination Guidelines, Protracted Situations, Top 10 Humanitarian Crises

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 125
  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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• Stepping Back from Bethlehem

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  For much of the world, the heart of Bethlehem is found down a narrow stairway in a small cave area under a huge church where a 14-pointed silver star marks the spot that, for at least 17 centuries, Christians have honored as…
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• Food for sex rampant in Sri Lankan camps, says British medic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Dec 20 (IANS) Tamil women seeking shelter from the civil war in Sri Lanka were sexually abused by guards in refugee camps, a British medic has revealed.Vany Kumar, who herself was locked up behind barbed wire in the Menik Farm refugee camp for four months, told the Observer newspaper that guards gave food for ...
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• Captive Tamil women were sexually abused in Lankan refugee camps

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Dec. 20 (ANI): A British medic, who was held for months in a “concentration camp” along with nearly 300,000 Tamil refugees, has revealed that Sri Lankan military guards sexually abused women prisoners frequently in the camp.Vany Kumar, 25, who was locked up behind barbed wire in the Menik Farm refugee camp ...
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• Afghan refugees confined to camps during Muharram

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 166
  PESHAWAR: To maintain the peace during Muharram-ul-Haram, Afghan refugees are restricted to Muhajir Camps while leaves of the duty officials have been canceled in this regard. Commissioner Afghan refugees Syed Jamal uddin Shah told GEO News that Afghan refugees will not be allowed to go out of their camps during 1st ...
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• Bhutanese Refugees III – Resettlement.

  
  chocobaby.luv.ph — Authority: 160
  Some more statements and pictures on the situation of the refugees in the southeast of Nepal. For current information, and background stories, please check out: www.bhutannewsservice.com/ www.apfanews.com/ www.bhutaneserefugees.com/
  2 weeks ago

• Sri Lanka strives to recover after end of civil war (Yearender)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  By Anthony DavidColombo, Dec 11 (DPA) Months after ending a 26-year civil war in Sri Lanka that claimed over 100,000 lives, fresh hopes have been raised about building ethnic unity, although scars remain.Government forces inched their way into the rebel-held territories in the northern part of the country in the final ...
  2 weeks ago

• Books of the decade

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 125
  Editors note: Ten years ago, Forced Migration Review (FMR) published a feature entitled “issues of the new millennium” in which eight individuals gave their recommendations for the most significant books of the 1990s. I was interested in soliciting similar recommendations, but for books that have been written ...
  3 weeks ago

• Six decades on, Palestinian refugees still in cramped Lebanese camps

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Hassan Rhayyel has been trapped in a cramped refugee camp in south Lebanon for 61 years, ever since he fled Palestine with his family after the creation of Israel.
  3 weeks ago

• Palestine: where are we going?

  
  ?????????? | al-falasteenyia — Authority: 91
  so youve probably noticed (or perhaps you havent) that ive been on somewhat of a blogging hiatus. ive been trying to step back in order to gain a better perspective on things. also been thinking strategically about what im trying to do here. on one hand i feel myself compelled to comment on current events and hot news ...
  3 weeks ago

• Criticized by the West for its human rights abuses, Sri Lanka turns to the East

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 571
  The United Nations recently announced that internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka, housed in refugee camps since the time they fled their homes during the final and fatal offensive against the LTTE, can now go back to their homes. The questions are whether they still have homes to go back to and how safe is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Three UN peacekeepers killed in Darfur

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Nairobi/Khartoum, Dec 6 (DPA) Three UN peacekeepers were killed in an attack by unknown gunmen in Sudan’s volatile western Darfur region, a spokesman for the peacekeeping mission said.Two of the three Rwandan UNAMID soldiers died at the scene of the attack near a government checkpoint some two kilometres from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Invasion ‘lite.’ Pakistani analysts e…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 500
  Invasion ‘lite.’ Pakistani analysts express concern about US escalation into Pakistan – both drones and US troops – during next summer’s fighting season. With the Afghan winter traditionally making guerrilla warfare harder, there is effectively one fighting season left – the summer of 2010 – before ...
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• Mizo youth shot dead by suspected militants near Tripura-Mizoram border

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Bungthuam village (Tripura), Dec 1(ANI): An 18-year-old Mizo youth, Zarzokima, was recently shot dead by suspected militants of Bru National Army, a militant group, in the Bungthuam village, near Tripura border. Following the incident, there were acts of ethnic violence, where houses of Bru or Reang tribes were set ...
  3 weeks ago

• Thousands leave refugee camps in Sri Lanka

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Colombo, Dec 1 (DPA) Thousands of refugees from the civil war in Sri Lanka Tuesday began leaving refugee camps six months after the government opened the camps, an official overseeing the refugees said.Major General G.A. Chandrasiri said as many as 9,300 people left the camps the first day.About 300,000 people were ...
  4 weeks ago

• An Afghan Leader We Can Admire

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 652
  The media coverage of Afghanistan focuses, on the one hand, on the evils of the Taliban and, on the other hand, on the necessity of rooting out corruption in the current US-backed government.  Where are the leaders we can admire? …
  4 weeks ago

• EU seeks more flexible camps

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 155
  MONDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2009 14:21 BANGKOK POST The European Union will push for a new deal to open up Burmese refugee camps, allowing asylum seekers to take up work outside the camps to make them self-reliant and productive members of the Thai community, a top EU envoy says. The plan is part of a five-year strategy ...
  4 weeks ago

• International Corruption Fuels Congo’s Repressive War

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 488
  Considering that the United States, China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and rotating member Uganda are all on the Security Council and all have been implicated in the report, it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• DNA proves remains found in Lebanon are of British journalist

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Beirut, Nov 24 (DPA) A British forensic team in Lebanon said DNA results proved that the body found last week in eastern Lebanon is that of a British journalist kidnapped by Palestinian militants 24 years ago.A British embassy spokeswoman in Beirut said the body belonged to Alec Collett, who was abducted in ...
  5 weeks ago

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