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Australia’s Aboriginals Request Refugee Status From The UN
A group of Australia’s aboriginal people have submitted a request to the United Nations for a refugee status in their own country on Wednesday. The request comes in the wake of the Australia's strict... Pakistan War Against Taliban Causes Grief For Population
Clashes between the Pakistan government and the Taliban have forced nearly three million people from their homes in north-west Pakistan. Recenty, 800,000 refugees have been able to return to their homes, but over a million people are still living with host communities, and...
created by Annina Bergman | 12 wks ago | updated 12 wks ago
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Sri Lanka: Tamil refugees may end up in permanent camps.
" Tamil refugees may end up in permanent camps, say aid workers The Government originally proposed holding the Tamil refugees for up to three years to check they were not Tigers Sri Lankan authorities appear to... Sri Lanka camp children malnourished
The Executive Director of Sarvodaya reported of high rate of malnutrition at the Menik Farm, Sri Lanka. "Nearly 5000 Internally Displaced children in the Vavuniya camps are malnourished, a charity that works in... Ler Per Her refugee camp attacked by Burmese Army
In the mountainous jungles of the Karen State in eastern Burma, a small village of fragile bamboo huts sits poised on the idyllic banks of the Moei river at the border with Thailand. But the reality is far from... Sri Lankan Businessman arrested in connection with relief ship
Sri Lankan Business man arrested in connection with controversial relief cargo ship MV Captain Ali.The Syrian flagged ship was currently detained by the Sri Lankan Navy after it illegaly crossed over to Sri Lankan...
created by israeli.agent | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago
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159 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
Ex-KGB Agent: Refugee in Church Sanctuary
Ex-KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov has taken refuge in the First Lutheran Church in Vancouver, BC. Lennikov has been battling to obtain permission to stay in Canada, for the past several years. He worked five years for... Sinhalese hate us, we won't return to Lanka
Tamils who came out from Sri Lanka to India as refugees are afraid to return back. Though Sri Lankan president Rajapakse announced they won the war by destroying LTTE, there is no political solution put forward to address the tamil's issues. Tamils are still hopeful to get... US administration makes urgent aid plea for IDPs in Pakistan
As reported by Dawn, US administration on Tuesday made urgent aid plea for IDPs (Internally displaced persons) in Pakistan. As a consequence of recent Swat operation against Taliban, more than a million people have... Al Jazeera reporting from the War Zone
"One thing unites every single Tamil family that I have spoken to, who managed to escape from the No Fire Zone - They are relieved to be free at last." - David Chater, Al Jazeera, Pulmuddai. [Please watch the...
created by Hiranya Malwatta | 27 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago
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267 views | 9 recommendations | 9 comments
Source of refuge, and separation
" The P-3 program aims to reunify families separated after resettlement, which has been considered a long-standing priority in U.S. refugee admission. Since 2003, the program has admitted roughly 36,000 relatives of African refugees, plus about 400 people from other... Voicing Pain Through Performance
"“My homeland screams, ‘Don’t forget me!’ My new life says, ‘Come and get me!’ ”" This is a very powerful piece. No matter how many newspaper articles or books I read about immigration or difficult experiences that refugees faced in their countries of origin,...An Iraqi's odyssey into the French asylum system
BY ELISA MIGNOT [This story appeared originally on Immigration Here & There, a project of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, done in conjunction with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)] "We were living in a truck when the...Jenin music center torched
Jenin, is a town in the northern part of the West Bank of which Fatah has full control and jurisdiction over with the blessings of Israel. There is a struggle going on in this area between the... Darfur fears of crisis as aid agencies leave the region
Sudan's president Omar al Bashir has been issued with an international arrest warrant, and so has expelled aid groups from the Darfur region. Today no aid workers showed up to the Zamzam Camp leaving refugees to try and figure out how they are going to get water and food and...
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