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• First I Was A Wilzig

  
  Jessica Gottlieb — Authority: 131
  Recently I was contacted by the UNHCR (The United Nations Refugee Agency), they would like to reach my audience. It’s been a week, and I’ve been trying to think of how I would tackle this subject. Because it’s close to my heart and I’m fearful of editing myself too much, I’m just going to write today and ...
  2 days ago

• Refugee agency condemns attacks on foreigners in S Africa

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Uneducated Jeffrey Goldberg Errors on Palin’s Israel Settlement Declaration

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 649
  When aspiring bloggers ask me where they should focus their efforts to reach their goal of becoming a credible, productive and well-known online pundit, I always offer the same advice; “Do not focus on the writing, but instead read, read, read and read.”  A blogger cannot sustain a large readership without ...
  5 days ago

• Nastier refugee stand-offs in our region

  
  Andrew Bartlett — Authority: 520
  Another reminder of how genuine refugees are treated in our region In amongst all the media and political frenzy regarding the Tamil asylum seekers http://www.blacktownsun.com.au/news/world/world/general/indonesia-backs-down-on-merak-boat-people/1681997.aspx refusing to get off some boats in Indonesia, a much greater ...
  6 days ago

• REFUGEES AND MIXED MIGRATION

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
        THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE CONFERENCE ON REFUGEE PROTECTION AND MIGRATION   SAN JOSE DE COSTA RICA – 19-20 NOVEMBER 200  The Conference and the 10-Point Action Plan         The Conference on Refugee Protection and Migration in San José de Costa Rica ...
  1 week ago

• UNHCR calls for Thailand to end Lao Hmong refugees detention

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A group of Lao Hmong refugees who were rounded up in Bangkok in November 2006 to be deported are still being held in detention, in two cells at an immigration detention centre in Nong Khai, Thailand. The UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) demanded Tuesday 17 ...
  1 week ago

• Sri Lanka: Detained refugees say they will take the chance again

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 445
  Small groups of migrants are crammed into 46-foot fibreglass boats such as these vessels, while bigger trawlers are used to ferry larger numbersA grim boat journey partly spent in an airless hold, surviving a storm and running afoul of Australian security officers were still not enough to dim the hopes of some ...
  1 week ago

• UNHCR: Refugees would rather have our problems

  
  Chris Rawlinson — Authority: 127
  Wonderful work from Young & Rubicam , Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the UNHCR ( The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) . The copy reads; “ Refugees would like to have the same problems you have.” Just click on the pictures above to enlarge them. (Hat tip: I Believe in Advertising ) Related ...
  1 week ago

• UNHCR / ACNUR: Stockings

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 716
  Refugees would like to have the same problems you have. Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Buenos Aires, Argentina Creative Director: Hernán Damilano Art Director: Gustavo Sucri Copywriter: Francisco Ferro Illustrators: Daniel Romanos, Gastón Cardozo Photographer: Matías Posti GCD: Martín Mercado Account ...
  1 week ago

• UNHCR / ACNUR: Cigarette

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 716
  Refugees would like to have the same problems you have. Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Buenos Aires, Argentina Creative Director: Hernán Damilano Art Director: Gustavo Sucri Copywriter: Francisco Ferro Illustrators: Daniel Romanos, Gastón Cardozo Photographer: Matías Posti GCD: Martín Mercado Account ...
  1 week ago

• UNHCR / ACNUR: Car

  
  Ads of the World — Authority: 716
  Refugees would like to have the same problems you have. Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Buenos Aires, Argentina Creative Director: Hernán Damilano Art Director: Gustavo Sucri Copywriter: Francisco Ferro Illustrators: Daniel Romanos, Gastón Cardozo Photographer: Matías Posti GCD: Martín Mercado Account ...
  1 week ago

• The UN and the Yemen-Saudi Border

  
  Crossroads Arabia — Authority: 541
  The Italian news agency AKI reports on the UN High Commission for Refugees is concerned about the state of refugees in Yemen. While the concern is broader than that of the recent border conflicts, they do play a role in the issue. Yemen: UN demands refugee protection Geneva, 11 Nov. (AKI) – The United Nations ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• UNHCR accepts three gay Iranian refugees

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 132
  Image via Wikipedia The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee in Ankara has accepted three Iranian gay refugees into their resettlement program. This means they will find a new safe home, most likely in Canada which is home to Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees (IRQR), the Canadian based group which made ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thanksgiving comes early for Iraqi refugees in Knoxville

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Forgotten Refugees - West Balkans

  
  AriRusilas BalkanPerspective — Authority: 104
  The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans - still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escaped to other country, one part is “internally displaced ...
  2 weeks ago

• Forgotten Refugees – West Balkans

  
  AriRusila's BalkanBlog — Authority: 104
  The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans – still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escaped to other country, one part is “internally displaced ...
  2 weeks ago

• Proud homecoming for former refugee

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 114
  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 - ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tamil women begin new hunger strike off Indonesian coast

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Merak (Java, Indonesia), Nov.9 (ANI): Ten women among a group of almost 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to leave their boat in Indonesia have begun another hunger strike.The move comes after the spokesman for the Tamils, known as Alex, confessed he was once a member of a violent gang in Canada and was jailed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Publications: Accountability/Humanitarian Staff, Africans/Europe, Climate Refugees, Human Trafficking, Refugee Protection/Central America, UNHCR Plans

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 425
  African Immigrants and Refugees in Europe (BAJI Blog, Nov. 2009) [access]- Series of blog posts from two researchers who are "spending two weeks in Italy and Greece to learn more about the plight of African refugees as they make their way to Europe to find work to support themselves and their families back ...
  2 weeks ago

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