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• Get back to where you once belonged (Volume 2: Bootylicious)

  
  The Attic — Authority: 135
  Ah, legislation. It makes fools of us all.Congratulations, everyone, UK museums can now return artworks looted in WWII! What, you ask, they couldnt do this before? No, apparently not - national institutions cannot dispose of things in their collections, they could (prior to this law) just pay off the victims in the ...
  9 hours ago

• Yet Another Country Adopts BNP Policy: Irish Government Starts Voluntary Repatriation

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 652
  Another country has adopted a part of British National Party policy. Last week, the Irish government formally launched a voluntary repatriation programme for immigrants and asylum seekers in Eire, offering them cash incentives to leave that country for good. An Irish government spokesman said that the scheme will ...
  18 hours ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 days ago

• 5,000 and Counting

  
  Illicit Cultural Property — Authority: 417
  The BBC reports on the increasingly-aggressive efforts by Egypt to secure the return of objects from the British Museum and Germanys Neues Museum.  Zahi Hawass claims to have arranged for the return of some 5,000 artifacts: Later this month Egyptian archaeologists will travel to the Louvre Museum in Paris to ...
  4 days ago

• Danish Government Adopts BNP’s Voluntary Repatriation Policy

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 652
  The Danish government has extended its voluntary repatriation policy by increasing by ten times the amount of cash offered to Third World immigrants to return home. Third Worlders in Denmark can each earn a healthy 100,000 kroner, the equivalent of £12,000, Danish government officials have announced. The new policy ...
  4 days ago

• Special Repatriation Issue

  
  Museum Anthropology — Authority: 119
  CALL FOR PAPERS: A special issue of Museum AnthropologyLooking Back, Looking Forward: NAGPRA after Two DecadesIn 1990, the United States Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), thereby forever altering museum collections and exhibits, and the relationship between museums ...
  5 days ago

• War’s ‘Lost Boy’ grows up to graduate from college

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — Kuol Dut was six when the swirling chaos of war churned through his village. He recalls playing in a field as neighbors raced toward him, screaming about militias attacking their homes. Even a boy of Kuol’s age knew that militias and soldiers slaughtered men, women and children in the ...
  5 days ago

• The Whole of Afghanistan Is Not Worth One Drop of British Blood, Says Nick Griffin

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 652
  “The entire country of Afghanistan is not worth one drop of British blood. Britain has no business in that country; the war was based on a lie and we need to get our troops out as quickly as possible before any more are killed,” said Nick Griffin MEP. Speaking to BNP News after attending the heartbreaking Wootton ...
  6 days ago

• Ken Clarke: Tory pledges on Europe are just reassurances

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 794
  Good old Ken Clarke, a walking gift to journalism if ever there was one. Mr Clarke has just been addressing the Commons press gallery. Inevitably, the leading Tory pro-European was asked about David Cameron’s recent retreat on Europe, and the new Tory package of anti-integration policies. Mr Clarke’s ...
  6 days ago

• Thanksgiving comes early for Iraqi refugees in Knoxville

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  The war in Iraq hits home for many people in Tennessee, especially during the holidays. For a group of Iraqis in Knoxville, the war ultimately forced them seek refuge in the United States where they now celebrate American holidays. Sunday afternoon, several local families hosted a Thanksgiving party at Jubilee Farms ...
  6 days ago

• Proud homecoming for former refugee

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  U.S. Navy Cmdr. Hung Ba Le salutes two Vietnamese officers during a welcoming ceremony in Danang.  DANANG, Vietnam - On the day his family’s side lost the Vietnam War, 5-year-old Hung Ba Le fled his homeland in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming - ...
  1 week ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Our Veterans: Frozen in Time, but Not Forgotten

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 737
  November 11 is Veterans Day. A day—a celebration—to honor America’s veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good. This is the first of three articles honoring those men and women. Two months ago, in “ Leave No Man Behind—65 Years Later ,” I ...
  1 week ago

• CFP: Museum Anthropology

  
  Long Road — Authority: 113
  I’m on the board for the Council for Museum Anthropology, here is a call for a special issue of Museum Anthropology : Looking Back, Looking Forward: NAGPRA after Two Decades In 1990, the United States Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), thereby forever ...
  1 week ago

• Scam-linked Chandigarh official transferred

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Chandigarh, Nov 5 (IANS) Chandigarh’s Director of Public Instructions (schools) Samwartak Singh, whose name cropped up in a teachers’ recruitment scam, was Thursday transferred from the education department with immediate effect, officials said.The union territory’s Home Secretary Ram Niwas last week wrote to ...
  1 week ago

• One of Sudan’s Lost Boys visits University of Tampa, shares harrowing story

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  Valentino Achak Deng’s suffering led eventually to his moving book, which made it possible for him return to help his native village. Above is the Marial Bai Secondary School he built. TAMPA - The 7-year-old boy ran as militiamen destroyed his village. He trekked through the wilderness for hundreds of miles, ...
  1 week ago

• Cameron’s EU plans would require Irish referendum

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 539
  David Cameron is to say today that he wants to “repatriate” employment and social law. I do not see how this can be done without changes to the EU’s treaties. It would therefore require the unaminous support of every EU member. Every other EU country has a veto. Ireland is constitutionally required to hold a ...
  1 week ago

• CFP: Museums and Restitution

  
  Long Road — Authority: 113
  Museums and Restitution is a two-day international conference organised by the Centre for Museology and The Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester. The conference examines the issue of restitution in relation to the changing role and authority of the museum, focussing on new ways in which these ...
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• Tripartite meeting to resolve Reang repatriation to Mizoram

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  By Sujit ChakrabortyAizawl, Nov 3 (IANS) Officials of the Mizoram government and union home ministry will meet tribal leaders here Wednesday to resolve the longstanding deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees from Tripura to Mizoram.The tripartite meeting will see representatives try and hammer out a ...
  1 week ago

• Iraqi refugees in New Jersey are finding a new kind of struggle

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 115
  Saif Alnasseri was a prominent pharmacist in Iraq, and now he lives in Plainfield with his wife, mother and daughter, Sarah, 3, pictured here reading a story to her father. He is struggling to make ends meet while working as a Pharmacist’s assistant at Walgreens making $10 an hour. (David Gard/New Jersey Local News ...
  2 weeks ago

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