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• Michael Palins hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Former Python star has shown us the world beyond our shores but after forging a bond with a 26-year-old Somali refugee he hopes to open our eyes to problems much closer to home They make for an odd couple. One is an epoch-defining comedian, not to mention a popular explorer and best-selling author who is fast ...
  5 hours ago

• Sri Lanka vows to free 130,000 refugees

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the ...
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• CAIR threatens Lewiston, Maine School District

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 510
  Here we go!  Lewiston, the city that has struggled for years ever since federal government contractors, such as Catholic Charities, chose it as a site for refugee resettlement and after a secondary migration of mostly Somali refugees picked this city in “welcoming” Maine, the joys of multiculturalism have ...
  8 hours ago

• Sri Lanka to open refugee camps ahead of polls

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: Reuters (Adds U.N. statement paragraphs 9-10) By Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in ...
  9 hours ago

• Sri Lanka Plans to Let Tamil Refugees Leave Camps

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Sri Lanka plans to release refugees still in government camps where they have been detained since the country’s civil war ended six months ago, a top official said.
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• Sri Lanka to open refugee camps ahead of polls

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: Reuters By Ranga Sirilal and Shihar Aneez COLOMBO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka said on Saturday it will allow greater freedom of movement to refugees held in military-guarded camps from next month, after ...
  12 hours ago

• Another indictment in Minneapolis Somali Jihad case

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 510
  I said yesterday  that I had a couple (turns out to have been 5!) of those hot Somali stories and this is one I didn’t get to.  The sixth indictment has been handed down in the FBI investigation into the Somali (former refugee) missing youth case .  Hat tip: ever-watchful in Tennessee. From the Minneapolis ...
  17 hours ago

• Refugee agency condemns attacks on foreigners in S Africa

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 495
  Victim of earlier xenophobic violence in S. Africa © 2008 UNHCR / J. Oatway Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has condemned the recent spate of attacks on refugees and asylum-seekers, many of them from Zimbabwe, in the Western Cape town of De Doorns , South ...
  18 hours ago

• Sri Lanka to release 136,000 war-displaced Tamils (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 474
  AP – Sri Lanka will release 136,000 ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees Dec. 1, allowing the civilians to leave squalid and overcrowded government camps after a half-year detainment, a top official said Saturday. Excerpt from:  (AP)"> (AP)">Sri Lanka to release 136,000 war-displaced Tamils ...
  21 hours ago

• Sri Lanka refugees ‘to be freed’

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 461
  Sri Lanka says refugees held in special camps since the end of the fight against the Tamil Tigers will be free to leave next month. Read more:  Sri Lanka refugees ‘to be freed’
  21 hours ago

• State Department close to reopening previously fraud-ridden program

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 510
  Here is a story I am ashamed to say I missed two weeks ago!   According to Matthew Lee of AP, yes, apparently the same Mr. Lee who reported on the last day of every month in the waning months of the Bush Administration that that awful Mr. Bush didn’t let in to the US enough poor Iraqis, here , tells us the ...
  1 day ago

• Thailand: End Detention of Lao Hmong Refugees

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - The Thai government should immediately end the detention of 158 Lao Hmong refugees held in poor and abusive conditions for three years, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime ...
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• Thailand: End Detention of Lao Hmong Refugees

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 684
  (New York) - The Thai government should immediately end the detention of 158 Lao Hmong refugees held in poor and abusive conditions for three years, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. read more
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• Interview with Rebecca Manley

  
  New Books In History — Authority: 110
  By the time the Nazi’s invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Bolshevik Party had already amassed a considerable amount of expertise in moving masses of people around. Large population transfers (to put it mildly) were part and parcel of building socialism. Certain “elements” needed to be sent for ...
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• Cooperation between states in the Americas vital to protect refugees in migration flows

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: UNHCR A regional conference on refugee protection and mixed migration in the Americas gets under way with call on states to cooperate over the issue.
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• Columbus: Mosque fire exposes Somali infighting

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 510
  I’m starting to feel like I should rename this blog ‘Somali Watch’ because just when I thought I had a window of time to write the much needed post about that boring “Targeted Assistance” program I’m procrastinating  about, comes two hot Somali stories in the US and another in Finland.  And, oh geez, I ...
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• DRC-CONGO: New wave of refugees flees fresh fighting

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: IRIN Renewed clashes in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have led to a further wave of refugees, leaving corpse-littered villages in the affected area deserted, say humanitarian officials.
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• PHOTOS: Kenya, Rift Valley- 20 000 people evicted from their homes in the forest

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: AlertNet
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• Not all that “welcoming” in Sweden; girls convicted for harrassing refugees

  
  Refugee Resettlement Watch — Authority: 510
  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 ...
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• South Africa: UNHCR condemns xenophobic violence in Western Cape

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 729
  Source: UNHCR UNHCR condemns the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from their shacks in De Dooms, a grapelands farming community ...
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