Mainstream News on Refugees

Syrian, Saudi leaders to tackle tension in Lebanon
Daily Times
Separately, The United Nations refugee agency called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to halt expulsions of Somalis to Mogadishu, rebuking the kingdom for ...

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SB 1070 at Work in Chicago: Stirrings of Renewed Activism
Gapers Block (blog)
The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is calling the new resolution, "The strongest City Council resolution ever introduced in the state ...

Q&A: Rwandan President Paul Kagame
TIME
But the problems and circumstances I was born into and grew up in, being a refugee from my childhood, for close to three decades — there is lot you go ...

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Bias, brigandry and the prophets of doom
Mail & Guardian Online
It is the title of an essay by Loren B Landau, the director of the Forced Migration Studies Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, ...

Birds of different feathers, but what is so scary?
The Age
Saddam will kill me,'' yelled one asylum seeker. Australian soldiers were forced to subdue them. The boat ran aground 300 metres from the shores of Roti ...

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Torturing the Rule of Law at Obama's Gitmo
CounterPunch
But give our government credit for breaking new ground: no nation has tried a child soldier for war crimes since World War II, and the decision to prosecute ...

Zimbabwe's ex-child soldier tells his story in autobiography
African Press Agency (subscription)
APA - London (United Kingdom) In his book titled : Blood, Sweat and Treason ; My Story : Henry Olonga released here Friday, the Zimbabwean relives an awful ...

Newbury Weekly News Group
16-year-old asylum seeker tells of his ordeal
Newbury Weekly News Group
A 16-year old asylum seeker from Afghanistan said that he travelled through Europe in the back of a lorry for five months before ...

What is human security and national security?
Myjoyonline.com
In order to understand human security, it is essential to first look at the orthodox approach to security. The orthodox approach or westphalian concept of ...

Hanoi meeting shows the 'world has returned to ASEAN'
Jakarta Post
The issue of democracy and human security in Myanmar remains a difficult point on the ASEAN agenda. ASEAN ministers in Hanoi last week expressed their hope ...

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Today's Zaman
Turkey introduces 'regional ownership' to Afghan agenda
Today's Zaman
... are -- and the drug trade, increase stability, enhance regional economic cooperation and employment opportunities and address Afghan refugee issues. ...

CNN
Cambodian man clears land mines he set decades ago
CNN
Aki Ra, a Cambodian native who does not recall his birth year, was a child soldier during the communist Khmer Rouge regime, a genocidal crusade responsible ...

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Kyrgyzstan: Most IDPs and refugees return, but numerous protection concerns persist
Central African Republic: New rebel attacks could weaken peace process
Myanmar: More than 900 people newly displaced in eastern Kayin/Karen state
Sudan: Floods displace thousands across the country

Download pdf version (207 kb) 31 December 2009 IDPs in Somalia had grounds for optimism at the beginning of 2009; after the withdrawal of Ethiopian ...

Killing Fields verdict fuels Christian's forgiveness
BP News
Silas was separated from his family and sent to a re-education camp where the Khmer Rouge trained him as a child soldier. When the Vietnamese liberated ...

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Tucson Citizen
Security cameras getting smarter with 'brains' to spot suspicious behavior
Tucson Citizen
This way human security guards or other viewers don't have to waste their own time doing so. Researchers are surely hoping it pans out, as the project just ...

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News in Brief: Migrant Bodies Piling Up in Arizona Heat, and More ...
truthout
Tougher enforcement measures and increased border security have forced migrants to take their chances in the dry, mountainous landscape of south of Tucson, ...

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Afrik-news
Monty Pythons show solidarity with Sahara refugees
Afrik-news
Michael Palin and Terry Jones were among the celebrities attending a private view of a photographs from the Western Sahara refugee camps in London on ...

Tucson Citizen
Security cameras getting smarter with 'brains' to spot suspicious behavior
Tucson Citizen
This way human security guards or other viewers don't have to waste their own time doing so. Researchers are surely hoping it pans out, as the project just ...

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