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• Refugees: Child refugees from Libyan crisis in Norway for UN resettlement process

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 130
  UN - A group of 33 unaccompanied children who spent months in a refugee camp in Tunisia after fleeing last year’s turmoil in Libya have arrived in Norway for a resettlement process spearheaded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The children, who left for Norway on Sunday, were among ...
  1 week ago

• More January Events & Opportunities

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 112
  The Refugee Studies Centres seminar series on environmental displacement kicks off on 18 January 2012 with "Environmental Displacement: Future Scenarios and Modes of Protection Re-examined." Other happenings include: A Long Way from Home? The Rural and Regional Resettlement Experiences of Visible ...
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• Worries on Canadian refugee rule change, impact on LGBT

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 512
  Image via Wikipedia Source: Xtra By Dale Smith The Canadian Council of Refugees (CCR) is worried proposed government changes to Canada’s refugee regulations could mean refugees who have been persecuted for being gay will not be allowed to apply. Janet Dench, executive director of CCR, says the new rules ...
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• Ethiopia: Middle Passage to the Middle East

  
  Ethiopian Review — Authority: 115
  Alemayehu G Mariam From the International Slave Trade to the International Maid Trade In the days of the Atlantic slave trade, the Middle Passage was the journey of slave trading ships from the west coast of Africa to the New World. Portuguese, British, French, Spanish, Dutch and other slave traders maintained ...
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• Sudan: UN agency seeks solution for long-term refugees in eastern Sudan

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 130
  High Commissioner António Guterres with Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees in Shagarab I camp, eastern Sudan. Photo: UNHCR/A.AwadUN - The head of the United Nations refugee agency has praised efforts to find a lasting solution for tens of thousands of long-term refugees in eastern Sudan, most of them Eritreans, but ...
  2 weeks ago

• France violated Sikh’s right to wearing turban: UN

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  London, Jan 13 (IANS) The UN rights committee has said France violated the religious freedom of a 76-year-old Sikh when he was asked to remove his turban for his ID photograph.The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHCR) has asked France to submit a report by March 15 on measures the government was taking to [...]
  2 weeks ago

• 12 Tips to Organize and Run a Tweetathon

  
  Waxing UnLyrical — Authority: 528
  Many of you are familiar with the Blue Key campaign that I’ve been working on since last year for my client, USA for UNHCR . There are so many things I’ve learned during the course of this campaign – about blogger outreach, about measurement and analytics, about Facebook Groups, about community building – ...
  2 weeks ago

• 2011 round-up: Part six: Asylum and refugees

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 512
  Image by gianlucacostantini via Flickr By Paul Canning Im rounding up the year in a series of posts - in which no doubt Ive missed something, so please let me know what Ive missed in the comments! Asylum and refugees In May a Spanish academic estimated that 6000 LGBT Africans flee to Europe each year. In ...
  4 weeks ago

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