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When the issue of refugees is raised within the context of the Middle East, people invariably refer to Palestinian refugees, virtually never to Jews displaced from Arab countries.
In reality,...
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Shell casings carpet the road outside a bullet-riddled subdivision on the outskirts of this colonial town on the Rio Grande Valley, abandoned by most of the 6,000...
made popular Nov 23 2010
THE Australian Government could be forced to abandon offshore processing of asylum seekers following the country’s High Court ruling declaring that the government...
made popular Nov 12 2010
Thailand said all of the 20,000 people who fled across the border from Myanmar after fighting broke out following the Nov. 7 election have been returned.
“The...
made popular Nov 10 2010
(CNN) — Thousands of refugees have begun voluntarily returning to Myanmar from Thailand, after learning that fighting between Myanmarese government forces and a...
made popular Nov 9 2010
The southwestern state of Arizona has got a bad rep recently. And deservedly so. State legislatures enacted an affront to the rule of law which gave police officers the...
made popular Oct 12 2010
The government wants to slash income support given to underage asylum seekers, reports the regional newspaper Ilkka. Officials suspect that children have been sending...
made popular Sep 20 2010
The women were bleary-eyed, their voices weak, their hands red and calloused. How could they be expected to cook and clean without water or electricity? What could they...
made popular Jul 14 2010
Ill-considered, unethical, and a breach of international law. That’s the view of the Refugee Council of New Zealand on Australian Prime Minister Julia...
made popular Jul 12 2010
New Australian prime minister Julia Gillard wants to build a refugee processing centre in East Timor to process asylum seekers arriving in Australia from Afghanistan...
made popular Jul 7 2010
Not long before Hillel Ben Sasson attended his first demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Aryeh King − perhaps the person most...
made popular Jun 25 2010
Kenya has warned MPs from Somalia to stop using Nairobi as a safe haven from the chaos in their own country.
Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang told the BBC he was on...
made popular Jan 21 2010
Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says.
The report, authored...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya–For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of...
made popular Nov 11 2009
The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans - still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of...
made popular Nov 11 2009
It was sometime after 2 a.m. when gunfire and mortars startled Oqaba Mohammed out of sleep. She thanked God she was alive and quickly gathered her four children,...
made popular Oct 14 2009
Hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict in Somalia are being forced to live in woeful conditions, the aid agency Oxfam says.
It says overcrowded and badly...
made popular Sep 5 2009
“They are cheerful-looking and photogenic, but close to all have a very sad story,” said Budi Soehardi, founder of the West Timor orphanage.
“Some of...
made popular Sep 5 2009
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Entire villages of people in north Yemen are being forced to flee by bands of Shia rebels as a sharp escalation of violence in the region prompts warnings that the...
made popular Sep 21 2009
A sprawling refugee tent city just blocks from the presidential palace has become a nagging reminder to residents of Colombia’s cosmopolitan capital that a brutal...
made popular Aug 1 2009
The military is allowing many residents of Pakistan’s Buner district to return to their homes – even as some villagers report ongoing Taliban presence and no...
made popular Jul 22 2009
Yesterday, was World Refugee Day. Refugees are created through wars and pure ethnic cleansing and such inhumanity has not ended in the 21st century. The tragedy of...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Pakistan says it is close to beating the Taliban in the Swat Valley, but battlefield success alone does not equal victory: Militant commanders are still at large, local...
made popular Jun 1 2009
While no one refutes that the LTTE is one of the most dangerous terrorist outfits presently active...and from the last 2 decades plus …they have entered into...
made popular Mar 5 2009
A lot of opinions have been written expressing both points of view. I for one, believe that it is a “combination of ingredients”, as complex as any relationship in...
made popular Jan 2 2009
More my articles over Balkans and Caucasus one may find from my BalkanBlog
Background of this post
Bloggers Unite is an attempt to harness the power of the...
made popular Nov 10 2008
Thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have been successfully resettled in seven countries, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark...
made popular Nov 11 2008
More than 11,000 refugees fled their homes in the interior villages of Lanao Del Norte where the army launched a mopping up operation against MILF groups after the...
made popular Oct 24 2008
Jolie, who has visited dozens of war-torn countries around the world, spoke passionately on behalf of the victims she’s met. “I’ve seen refugees...
made popular Oct 20 2008
Large-scale destruction of property and ongoing security concerns have stopped tens of thousands of people from returning to their homes after the Georgia-Russia...
made popular Oct 3 2008
KAMPALA (AFP) - Around 1,700 people fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have sought refuge in neighbouring Uganda, the UN High Commissioner...
made popular Sep 27 2008
According to the Israeli central bureau of statistics there are about 100 thousand illegal foreign workers in Israel. Most of them are from Romania, Thailand, China and...
made popular Jul 4 2008
Kenya’s Internally displaced persons have once again started trickling back to their camps a few days after they went back to their homes due to fresh tension that...
made popular Jun 24 2008
Tents, sacks of food and a replica of a burnt-out village hut appeared in Trafalgar Square on Tuesday as a tourist hotspot became a refugee camp to highlight the plight...
made popular Jun 18 2008
The following blog post will be mostly photos as I feel the pictures speak for themselves. Two events are covered in particular, one is that of Zimbabweans taking...
made popular May 30 2008
Cartoon depicting the effect of the Xenophobia attacks on South Africa’s image by famed South African cartoonist, Zapiro
The current situation in South Africa...
made popular May 27 2008
I have read in the press and seen in motion and still images, the horrific xenophobic situation in South Africa. I saw someone set ablaze and another man being hacked...
made popular May 21 2008
This interesting new world!
The Arabs of Palestine initially, kiss liberated Iraq for traditionally Catholic Chile, leaving brothers and sisters in the Middle East on...
made popular Apr 17 2008
Internet search giant Google Inc. unveiled a new feature Tuesday for its popular mapping programs that shines a spotlight on the movement of refugees around the...
made popular Apr 10 2008
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FILE - This Jan. 19, 1937 file photo shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A new book disputes widely held assumptions that President Franklin D. Roosevelt was insensitive to the plight of European Jews under the Nazis, and instead concludes that he...
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