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• Kimberly Abbott: Working together, NGOs and journalists can create stronger international reporting

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 733
  [This is the first essay in our series examining the evolving relationship between NGOs and journalism, produced with Penns Center for Global Communication Studies. Kimberly Abbott of the International Crisis Group leads off by exploring the pros and cons of established news organizations relying on NGOs for ...
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• SRI LANKA: Landmines, unexploded ordnance a barrier to return

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  Source: IRIN Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) are a key obstacle to the return of thousands of conflict-displaced to their homes in northern Sri Lanka, say government and UN officials.
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• News(poll) hits new lows

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 576
  At politicalowl , Richard Farmer quotes Gary Morgan on the Newspoll released today, which asked questions about the Prime Minister’s handling of asylum seekers but which also included questions about voting intention. But the results of those questions were not printed by its owners, News Limited: The evidence ...
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• YEMEN: Nearly 100,000 uprooted civilians get WFP food aid

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  Source: IRIN Nearly 100,000 people displaced over five years of fighting between government troops and Houthi-led Shia rebels have been receiving food aid in the governorates of Saada, Hajja, Amran and Al-Jawf since mid-August, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
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• Karl Barth on Refugees

  
  hebel — Authority: 416
  Commenting in October 1942 on the refugee crisis facing Switzerland, Karl Barth had this to say: "The refugees are our concern: not because they are good and valuable people, but because they are today the lowest, the most wretched people in the whole world and as such they knock on our doors, [and because their] ...
  11 hours ago

• Comment worth noting: US State Department, what is going on in Bowling Green?

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 484
  Comments worth noting is a category we set up for comments (usually to older posts)that might be lost to most readers unless we showcased them here. We just received this shocking information from a friend of a Burmese Karen refugee resettled recently in Bowling Green, KY.  The comment came in response to my post on ...
  17 hours ago

• Asylum Seeker Polling – Three Pollsters

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 540
  Today we have some results on the public perception of asylum seeker policy issues from both Newspoll and Nielsen. When combined with last week’s Essential Report questions on the same issue, all three pollsters turn out to be pretty consistent with each other, only differing by amounts we’d expect from slightly ...
  20 hours ago

• Refugees: Labor Government Assistant to Genocide

  
  Benjamin Solah, Marxist Horror Writer — Authority: 502
  If you were ever in any doubt about which side the Australian government is on when it comes to the Tamil Asylum seekers fleeing genocide in Sri Lanka. The Age today says: Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith is in Colombo today with special envoy John McCarthy, appointed last week, for talks on people ...
  20 hours ago

• Photos from Saturday’s March and Demonstration for NK Human Rights

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 520
  I would love to write more, but at least for now, here are some photos from Saturday’s March from near City Hall (actually, just to the right of the Deoksu Palace) to Seoul Station, where we joined a somewhat larger collection of groups assembled to call for freedom for North Koreans and meant to coincide with ...
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• Good and bad ways to reduce boat arrivals

  
  Bartlett's Blog — Authority: 113
  Peter Mares is a long time follower of refugee issues and critic of the problems inherent in the former government’s approach to asylum seekers in boats.  He wrote a piece in The Age which emphasised a point about the Howard’s government asylum policies which does not get highlighted enough. former ...
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• Italy does the job on refugees

  
  Andrew Bartlett — Authority: 540
  While the asylum seeker debate continues here, it is worth looking at approaches taken to refugees in other ‘developed’ countries.  Italy continues to set the pace when it comes to rich continues blatantly breaching human rights laws and putting refugees lives at risk.  They have reached an agreement with Libya ...
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• Palestine Pre-1947

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 551
  The old lie that palestine was dry desert waiting for a people is just that–a lie. This clip for all people to see the Beauty of the Palestinian People before they were ethnically cleansed and murdered and made into refugees by the State of Israe. Music Joaquin Rodrigo, lyrics Helmut Lotti, sung by Lotti All Photos ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• The new underclass

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 539
  Who haven’t heard of immigration queue jumpers? The current federal government used this term when it shut down visa-free travel from the Czech Republic and Mexico. Federal officials blamed queue jumping refugee claimants. But if someone jumps the queue, it’s not refugees as much as it is temporary guest workers. ...
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• Adjutant Australia: Controlling Boat People

  
  groundviews — Authority: 555
  The ongoing brouhaha around the boat people ‘storming’ Australian maritime waters displays two tendencies in Australian politics and its cultural underpinnings. The first tendency, A, is the insidious influence of a long-standing hostility to potentially subversive foreign elements. The second dimension, B, is a ...
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• مخيم نهر البارد

  
  3arabawy — Authority: 489
  Spread the word! [IMG: http://arabist.net/arabawy/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/digg.png][IMG: http://arabist.net/arabawy/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/delicious.png][IMG: http://arabist.net/arabawy/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/facebook.png][IMG: ...
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• Holocaust Hero Chiune Sugihara

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara was stationed in Lithuania when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Thousands of Jewish refugees came to the consulate seeking travel documents in order to escape the Nazis. Sugihara’s superiors in Tokyo ordered him not to issue any travel visas. Sugihara discussed the plan with ...
  3 days ago

• Build a culture of hospitality

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 144
  City of Sanctuary is a movement to build a culture of hospitality for asylum seekers and refugees Walkers follow in refugees’ steps A sponsored walk traces the route taken by Leicester asylum seekers required to report to an immigration centre 25 miles away. ...
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• Burma: Burmese refugees at risk in Malaysia (video report)

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  To date there are more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma, including Buddhist monks and one Nobel Peace Laureate.Military and civilian officials are involved in the unlawful conscription of child soldiers and wide-spread acts of forced labor inside of Burma. Visit www.pleasedontsaymyname.org for more ...
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• Borders

  
  Times LIVE Multimedia — Authority: 146
  The Times photographer LEBOHANG MASHILOANE is currently taking part in Bamako Encounters, the Biennial of African Photography in Mali. View his images of xenophobia in South Africa for his entry on this year¹s theme - “Borders”.
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