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• Bhutanese resettlement in America surpasses 60,000 headed to 70,000

  
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  In 2006, then Bush Assistant Secretary of State for Population Refugees and Migration, Ellen Sauerbrey, announced that the United States would begin to “clean out the [refugee] camps” in Nepal where people of Napali origin had been living since being expelled from Bhutan.  She said we would take 60,000 of the ...
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• CARE Senior Information Officer Job in Kenya 2013

  
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  CARE Senior Information Officer Job in Kenya 2013 Senior Information Officer (National) The Somalia NGO Consortium brings together local and international NGOs working in Somalia. It promotes information sharing, cooperation and joint advocacy initiatives and highlights key NGO concerns in key coordination fora. This ...
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• Five years on and no closer to solving xenophobic hatred

  
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  By Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh May marks five years since the xenophobic attacks that shocked the nation. But what has happened since then? Are we better prepared to deal with criminality of that scale than we were five years ago? The simple answer is no. South Africa — in its 19 year democratic history — had never...
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• Thematic Focus: UNHCR

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 138
  UNHCR info: The Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Erika Feller, has retired.  Read a press release announcing her initial appointment in 2006, a Q&A with her on protection, and the text of her last speech to EXCOM. Employment opportunities - Currently, over 50 positions in the International ...
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• World Suffers from Palestine Fever

  
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  Last Friday Finland and Denmark became the latest European countries to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority diplomatic missions to full-fledged Embassy status placing them on an equal status with every other nation in the world. The Palestinian entity is now treated by the United Nations, UNESCO, many ...
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• The Best-Laid Plans

  
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  A woman sits with her child inside a tent at a refugee camp near Diyarbakır, Turkey, on January 9, 2013. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Syria’s catastrophe is increasingly leaping over the border of its northern neighbor, Turkey, igniting a whole new set of challenges for the Ankara government and blurring what was once a ...
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• Thematic Focus: Rwandan Refugees

  
  Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog — Authority: 138
  A Cessation of Choice for Rwandan Refugees (Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Dec. 2012) [ text ] Contesting Refugee Status Cessation: The Rwandan Case (Oxford Human Rights Hub, March 2013) [ text ] "From Urban Catastrophe to Model City? Politics, Security and Development in Postconflict Kigali," Urban Studies , ...
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• Syrian Refugee Crisis Continues To Escalate

  
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  With nearly 2.5 million Syrian refugees throughout the entire region, the report cites two major problems facing the health system. First, with low funding for the refugee crisis, the challenge of providing access to quality health care for Syrian refugees is growing – particularly for people living outside of ...
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• UNs Falk Ties Boston Bombs to Obamas Israel Trip

  
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  by Lauren Izso Rights council official insinuates the "darkly glamorized" Boston bombings happened because of Obamas love-letter to Israel.   UN investigator Richard Falk. Photo: Reuters  UN Human Rights Council’s Palestine monitor Richard Falk has drawn connections ...
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• Nakivale is home to 68,000 refugees and 35,000 Ugandans – piloting mobile courts for refugees

  
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  Photo: Samuel Okiror/IRIN Nakivale is home to 68,000 refugees and 35,000 Ugandans (file photo) KAMPALA,  - Uganda’s government and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) have launched a pilot mobile court system to improve access to justice for victims of crimes in Nakivale, the country’s oldest and largest refugee ...
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• Nursing and Driving Jobs with Bondo Teachers Training College, Kenya 2013

  
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  Nursing and Driving Jobs with Bondo Teachers Training College, Kenya 2013 Bondo Teachers Training College wishes to invite qualified applicants for the following positions: Driver Qualifications: ‘O’ Level certificate of education Valid Driving License Class ABCE Certificate of good conduct Suitability test for ...
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• States Slowly Making Good on Syria Appeal Pledges

  
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  April 23, 2013 - More than $1.2 billion has been committed to aid the humanitarian response inside Syria and in neighboring countries hosting Syrian refugees, according to the lastest figures by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Some $2 billion had been pledged by donors in recent ...
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• Mount Kenya University Job Vacancy Kenya 2013

  
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  Mount Kenya University Job Vacancy Kenya 2013 Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Development) Career Opportunity Deputy Director, Incubation and Mentorship Programme Mount Kenya University is a Chartered and quality- driven University operating in East Africa. The University is a member of Inter ...
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• 19-Apr-13: Refugees, hypocrisy and unity: just follow the money

  
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  Syrian victims of Syrian barbarism: Bab al-Salam refugee camp in Syria near the Turkish border January 10, 2013 [Image Source: Reuters/Abdalghne Karoofab ] The Arab-on-Arab bloodbath just across Israels northern border goes on and on, and with it the incredible - and worsening - suffering of ordinary Syrians. That ...
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• Bhutanese refugees kill themselves because of lack of jobs; let’s import more immigrant labor!

  
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  We’ve reported previously on the high suicide rate in the Bhutanese population in the US, but to be honest, they killed themselves in camps at about the same high rate (or so this researcher says) as here in America. Nevertheless, this latest news on the statistic highlights the refugees’ lack of employment ...
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