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Single location for Catholic Social Services in Mobile would be 'visible ...
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The office will house the following ministries: Adoption and Pregnancy Services, Emergency Services, 2B Choices for Women, Clinical Counseling, Apostolate for Persons with Disabilities, Refugee Resettlement, Disaster Relief, administration as well as a ...

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Canada deports 'convicted terrorist' after 26 years
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"Mr. Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad represents just how broken Canada's immigration and refugee determination systems had become under previous governments." Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad has been deported to Lebanon following a ...
Minister Kenney Issues Statement on Mahmoud Mohammad Issa MohammadMarketwire (press release)

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Canada deports 'convicted terrorist' after 26 years
CBC.ca
"Mr. Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad represents just how broken Canada's immigration and refugee determination systems had become under previous governments." Related: Terry Milewski's coffee with Mohammad Issa Mohammad. Kenney said ...
After 26 years, Canada boots killer terroristSun News Network
Canada deports Palestinian hijacker after 26 yearsCANOE
Minister Kenney Issues Statement on Mahmoud Mohammad Issa MohammadMarketwire (press release)

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The Guardian
'Accountant for Somali pirates' arrested as asylum seeker in Germany
The Guardian
German police have arrested an asylum seeker alleged to have acted as an accountant for Somali pirates who seized an oil tanker in 2010. Lower Saxony state police say the man, identified only as M, was arrested last Wednesday at a refugee centre in the ...
German police arrest alleged Somali pirate accountant as he seeks asylumMontreal Gazette

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Good day, good day!  Hope no one has a bad case of The Mondays.  But if you do, no worries, we have new RFP list to get your week off to a good start.  Not too much going on, but enjoy!

USAID/Uganda Education and Research to Improve Climate Change Adaptation USAID Ghana Trade and Agriculture Activity – DRAFT Program Description Establishment of an Academic Partnership in Elementary Education with Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan Leadership Institute for Secondary School Teachers The U.S./Pakistan Professional Partnership Program for Journalists FY 2013 Funding Opportunity Announcement for NGO Programs Benefiting Sri Lankan Refugees in Tamil Nadu, India

Published on 12 May 2013

ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ အိမ္မျပန္ႏိုင္ … ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္းအႏၱရာယ္

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုးသူအမ်ားဆံုးရွိတဲ့ ကမၻာ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြထဲမွာ ႏွစ္စဥ္ပါဝင္ေနဆဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ ႏွစ္ ၅ဝေက်ာ္လာၿပီး အစိုးရတပ္ကေရာ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ေတြဘက္ကပါ ေျမျမွဳပ္မိုင္း အသံုးျပဳမႈေတြေၾကာင့္ အျပစ္မဲ့အရပ္သားေတြ ေသဆံုးမႈ၊ ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရမႈေတြကလည္း အခုထိ ရွိေနဆဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

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Indonesia intercepts asylum-seeker boat
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Indonesia intercepts asylum-seeker boat. Monday, May 13, 2013. From Print Edition. DENPASAR, Indonesia: Indonesian police on Sunday said they had intercepted a wooden boat carrying around 80 asylum-seekers from the Middle East, believed to be ...
Asylum seeker stand-off in Bali endsSBS
Indonesian police intercept asylum seeker boatRadio Australia
Arrest as Bali asylum bid failsThe West Australian
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http://livestre.am/4s6rh (90 minutes)

Introduction: “Tzachi Hanegbi, member of the Knesset, Likud, and former Israeli minister of intelligence, addresses The Washington Institute’s 2013 Soref Symposium.  Thursday, May 9, 2013.”

The concept of “integrity”  constitutes a global western theme in relation to the Islamic Small Wars.  

In essence, the west anchors itself in empiricism, talks policy in the open, and the broader and more inclusive the conversation in participation, comprehension, and reach, the better for mankind.

The cited video, accessible worldwide with exception existing only in states too autocratic or too fragile and tender (or all three) provides a good example of the intellectual process.  It has breadth and depth and may be viewed as easily in Riyadh or Islamabad as it is accessible in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

In this video, the Jewish question, oh my, actually comes up in the final minutes.

I may remind readers, Chomsky’s disingenuous rhetoric notwithstanding, that all of the world’s states contain a something-majority, whether Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim or something else: count on the world’s one Jewish-majority state surviving as such, and that specifically as the center of a global ethnic and religious commune with its heart ever in Jerusalem and its body in the spirit of the Land of Israel.

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“Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attacks might be linked with resentment at the 20,000 to 25,000 Syrians living in refugee camps in Hatay, while deputy prime minister Bulent Arinc accused the Syrian regime and intelligence service …”

Resentments surface in Turkish border town after twin blasts kill over 45 people

“Three Syrians were among the 46 killed when the two car bombs struck the town centre on Saturday afternoon. But that did not lessen the anger vented against both the refugees and the man many locals blame for bringing them to Reyhanli, the Turkish …”

‘Kill the Syrians’: Turkish mobs search out civil war refugees after …

EBRD's energy investment decision an important indicator
Power Engineering International (blog)
"The world must wake up and take note of what this means for human security, human welfare and economic development," said Figueres, who oversees global negotiations aimed at limiting warming-induced climate change. "In the face of clear and present ...

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National Geographic
wake up to 'new danger zone'
The Australian
"The world must wake up and take note of what this means for human security, human welfare and economic development," said Ms Figueres, who oversees global talks aimed at limiting warming-induced climate change. "In the face of clear and present ...
World has entered new CO2 'danger zone': UNYahoo!7 News

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Economic Times
Spending diverted to cover asylum bills
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THE aid sector and the Coalition have condemned Labor's decision to again delay its foreign aid spending target, warning the move will cost lives and see more money diverted to cover domestic asylum-seeker costs. Foreign Minister Bob Carr yesterday ...
Swan to cap aid spending on asylum seekers - Brisbane TimesBrisbane Times
Row over foreign aid cutbacks on eve of Australian BudgetRadio Australia
Australia decides to slow a projected increase in foreign aid spending in a ...Montreal Gazette
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UN and Somalia agreed to avert Sexual Violence Crimes, - Mareeg
Mareeg
On the other hand, the Somali women's tear especially for those living in Internally Displaced area's IDP Camps also marked that the Panasonic Corporation, a Japanese multinational electronics company, has donated Y3,000,000 (USD 31,000) to IOM for a ...

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Tens of Thousands of Refugees Evacuated as Storm Nears Arakan Coast
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
An internally displaced woman stands outside a tent in western Burma's Arakan State. (Photo: Reuters). RANGOON—Arakan State authorities and the UN said they are preparing refugees for the arrival of a tropical storm, which is due to hit the Arakan ...

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Channel News Asia
Disasters displaced 32.4 million in 2012
Channel News Asia
Internally displaced is a label given to individuals who remain in their homeland, to distinguish them from those who cross borders and are counted as refugees. The hardest-hit countries in 2012 were India and Nigeria. Flooding in both countries forced ...

Telegraph.co.uk
World in 'new danger zone', UN's climate chief warns
Telegraph.co.uk
... through fossil fuel use. "The world must wake up and take note of what this means for human security, human welfare and economic development," said Ms Figueres, who oversees global negotiations aimed at limiting warming-induced climate change.

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The unspoken truth is that the Palestinians, the country’s largest ethnic group, have developed a profound hatred of the regime and view the Hashemites as occupiers of eastern Palestine—intruders rather than legitimate rulers. This, in turn, makes a regime change in Jordan more likely than ever. Such a change, however, would not only be confined to the toppling of yet another Arab despot but would also open the door to the only viable peace solution—and one that has effectively existed for quite some time: a Palestinian state in Jordan.

Zahran, Mudar.  ”Jordan is Palestinian.” Pages 3-12, Middle East Quarterly, Wiinter 2012.

Posted to YouTube December 7, 2012, here’s a clip titled “Angelina Jolie Visits Syria, Jordan Border:

I’ll make it two clips with Ms. Jolie:

http://unhcr.org/v-505053a86 (also from winter 2012).

(Source page for the above: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e486566.html).

Current UNHCR page tallies “Total Persons of Concern” in Jordan as 431,799.

The displaced, whether from the 1948 war launched against Israel or from the latest horrors taking place today in Syria, carry with them their attitudes and beliefs about themselves (“self-concept”) and attitudes toward the greater world around them.  That’s something to think about as the Syria fled has been irrevocably altered by the methods of war chosen by the Assad regime — e.g., flying air strikes against whole communities; killing noncombatants (in one parlance) / innocents (in another) without distinction from armed or known challengers; and displacing millions without accommodation.

Whether the Assads stay or go, eventually, and in part or as a whole, the Syria that existed as the enthusiasms of the “Arab Spring” approached is gone: whatever may be there, it’s missing 3.4 million of its citizens, either internally displaced or refugee.

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We kindly thank Forced Migration Review for allowing us to cross post this piece from their Special

Global Estimates 2012: People Displaced by Disasters is a newly-released report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).  It finds that "98% of all displacement in 2012 [an estimated 32.4 million people] was related to climate- and weather-related events... ."  Follow the link to access the text of the report, a press release, global estimates highlights, and a map.

Other recent publications:

Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Migration, Commission Staff Working Document, no. SWD(2013) 138 final (European Commission, April 2013) [text]

CRED Crunch, no. 31 (March 2013) [full-text]
- Provides data for natural disasters in 2012.

Measuring Disasters' Full Impact (Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, May 2013) [access]

"Wet Feet Marching: Climate Justice and Sustainable Development for Climate Displaced Nations in the South Pacific," Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, vol. 14, no. 1 (2012) [full-text]

Where the Sea has Risen too High Already (IPS, April 2013) [text]

New web site:

The Nansen Initiative: Disaster-induced Cross-border Displacement [access]
- "The Nansen Initiative is a state-led, bottom-up consultative process intended to build consensus on how to address the needs of people displaced across international borders in the context of slow- and sudden-onset natural disasters, including the adverse effects of climate change."  Note the emphasis on "cross-border" not internal displacement (see FAQs for more info.).  The first round of regional consultations is due to take place in the Cook Islands, on 21-24 May 2013.  Follow the link for a background paper, concept note, desk review, agenda, and participants' list.

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