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Money or Life? Which is more important?

  Where has our outrage gone? There was a time when a crime involving children was cause for an outcry. The desire for revenge against the monsters that harm our children. But lately, it seems, as if a...

Nsabimana Kanizius's Letter to the Leaders in the DRC

http://www.thinkhumanity.org/uploads/files/Jimmy.pdf Click link above for entire paper. JIMMY’S FIRST PUBLISHED PAPER.           2009 –July_30th TO THE DRC LEADERS! I was the first victim and accused in several...

Sri Lanka Tamil refugee camps 'to be opened next month'

Good news from Sri Lanka... " Sri Lanka says people held in special camps since the end of the conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels will be allowed out for short periods from next month. An aide to the president also...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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