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October 19, 2010

Increase Of Burma Refugees Concerns Thai Health Workers

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Health care workers in Thailand offering care to Burma refugees say the numbers of those needing help are increasing. Many are fleeing a push by Burma's [...]
November 02, 2010

Films, Documents Show WWII Mission To Rescue 200 Burmese Refugees By Elephants

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Tens of thousands of the refugees — many sick and starving — had trekked for hundreds of miles through dense jungle in the hope of reaching the Indian [...]
October 24, 2010

Church Giveaway 'like A Dream' For Needy

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The movie, shown as part of culture orientation, promised English classes and jobs for refugees. But when Salman came to Stafford County two years ago, [...]
October 15, 2010

Opposition Wants Oceanic Viking Refugees To Wait Longer For Resettlement

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In a deal which saw the asylum seekers get off the ship after a month-long stand-off, those found to be refugees were to be resettled within 12 weeks. [...]
October 15, 2010

Stopping Human Smuggling Risks Penalizing Legitimate Refugees, Experts Say

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They would have killed my children,” said the soft-spoken, stoic refugee. The Tories plan to introduce legislation that takes direct aim at smugglers like [...]
October 09, 2010

Four Months After Kyrgyzstan Violence, UN Refugee Agency Reports Strides

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8 October 2010 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today that good progress has been made to help the displaced and returnees [...]
October 14, 2010

Sri Lankan Minister Says Tamils Seek Money Not Safe Haven

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The aspiring refugees are being dishonest when they tell Canadian officials they fear for their personal safety in Sri Lanka, says Foreign Minister GL [...]
October 14, 2010

Stop Sending Somalis Back To Mogadishu, Says UN Refugee Chief

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Somali children stand outside their makeshift shelter in Kakuma Refugee camp in northwest Kenya, March 2, 2010. REUTERS/Frank Nyakairu By Emma Batha and [...]
November 01, 2010

The Elephant Man: Unseen Footage Released Of Forgotten British Hero Who ...

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Gyles Mackrell, a 53-year-old tea planter, saved 200 Burmese refugees from the banks of a flooded river using the only means he could think of to get them [...]
November 06, 2010

UNHCR Urges Kenya Not To Send Back Somali Refugees

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The United Nations refugee agency on Wednesday called on the Kenyan government to immediately halt its returns of Somalis from a border camp in the [...]
November 08, 2010

UNRWA And The Code Of Silence

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It is a key mechanism that keeps Palestinians “refugees” over 60 years after their ancestors' flight during the Arab war against the creation of the State [...]
November 08, 2010

Monday Hearing For Masked Refugee Claimant

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On Monday, the Immigration and Refugee Board will hold the man's second detention hearing, which is mandatory within seven days of a claimant's detention. [...]
October 24, 2010

Human Smuggling: Crackdown Goes Too Far

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While Canadians aren't thrilled to see boatloads of people — including both economic migrants and genuine refugees — turning up here seeking asylum, [...]
October 15, 2010

Refugee Film Mirrors Director's Own Life

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The film tells the story of a mother and daughter who leave their home country of Belarus to avoid child trafficking and settle in a refugee camp in Sweden. [...]
November 06, 2010

Bay Area Burmese Refugees Watch Sunday's Election With Skepticism

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More than 18000 Burmese refugees are welcomed from those camps into the United States each year, making them the largest incoming refugee group after Iraqis [...]
October 12, 2010

They Will Keep Coming

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He says in 'They will keep coming', and that 'There are good reasons to believe that many Tamil migrants are taking advantage of Canada's flawed refugee [...]
November 04, 2010

Eight Years On, Burmese Refugee Still Waits For Landed Status

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Ler Wah Lo Bo, a Burmese refugee, has been waiting eight years to obtain permanent residency status in Canada. So far he has been unsuccessful and therefore [...]
November 04, 2010

Volcano Refugees Flee Massive New Mount Merapi Eruption

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Lava flows from the crater of Mount Merapi in Indonesia as the volcano belches more clouds of gas and ash. Source: AFP A PAIR of massive explosions beneath [...]
October 15, 2010

Fresh Registration For Afghan Refugees

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ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan and UNHCR on Thursday formally launched a nationwide project to issue new registration cards to Afghan refugees. [...]
October 09, 2010

UN Urges Increased Protection For Haitian Refugees

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A new report by Refugees International, a Washington-based refugee advocacy group, is sharply critical of conditions in the refugee camps in Haiti. [...]
October 12, 2010

Refugee Workforce

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Bigelow Nurseries works with the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants and with Lutheran Social Services to employ people from all over the world [...]
October 25, 2010

EU Team Sent To Greece To Curb 'alarming' Refugee Flow

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In an interview on 21 October, Novak said Greece must not be the only one to carry the burden of refugees in Europe and their readmission to Greece on the [...]
October 16, 2010

Britain To Remove Ban On Deporting Refugees To Harare

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But the decision has been criticised by refugee organisations and the Zimbabwe Association. The forcible removal from Britain of Zimbabweans was halted in [...]
October 28, 2010

Images Of London After Climate Change 'are Lazy', Say Refugee Groups

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But the pictures have been sharply criticised by groups representing refugees and asylum seekers who say they present a negative image of migrants. [...]
October 19, 2010

Australia To Build More Refugee Centers

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CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 19 (UPI) -- The Australian government's plans to build more detention camps for asylum seekers has divided the country's refugee [...]

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