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Search underway for troubled asylum seeker boat
The Age
Australian navy vessels have been sent to search for an asylum seeker boat which is believed to have sunk about 65 nautical miles north-west of Christmas Island. The search for the boat with about 60 people on board is being coordinated by the ...

Australia search for asylum-seeker boat feared sinking
Geo News, Pakistan
SYDNEY: Australian navy vessels were Saturday scrambling to locate an asylum-seeker boat feared sinking off the Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, an official said. "Border Protection Command assets are currently conducting a search ...

Sky News Australia
Australia search for asylum-seeker boat feared sinking
The News International
From Web Edition. SYDNEY: Australian navy vessels were Saturday scrambling to locate an asylum-seeker boat feared sinking off the Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, an official said. "Border Protection Command assets are currently conducting a ...
Navy searching off Christmas Island for sinking asylum-seeker boatThe Australian
Search underway for troubled asylum seeker boatSydney Morning Herald
Search on for asylum seeker boatThe West Australian
ABC Online -Perth Now
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Search for sunken asylum seeker boat
Perth Now
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Sky News Australia
Search underway for troubled asylum seeker boat
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian navy vessels have been sent to search for an asylum seeker boat which is believed to have sunk about 65 nautical miles north-west of Christmas Island. The search for the boat with about 60 people on board is being coordinated by the ...
Navy, Customs search for asylum seeker boat believed to be sinking near ...ABC Online

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From Cavatus

(Cavatus’ Blog) is not often updated nowadays. It won’t be henceforth.

My work — in order to try to save this country — is restricted to flyer campaigns and (talking) with people. But, I cannot withhold this video clip from you.

Sweden has disgraced itself internationally because of the riots last week. But don’t believe that it all has ceased by now. Every night there are cars on fire and other subversive mischief in the immigration suburbs. In the wake of the first riots, in all 70 suburbs and places have been struck so far by the consequences of Sweden’s downright failed immigration policy.

A politician — a member of one of the ruling parties (Olle Engström in Borås) — had a letter-to-the-editor published yesterday in the newspaper Borås Tidning, in which he rejected the uncontrolled immigration policy, and dreaded that Sweden would shortly fall into a religious civil war if nothing is done … like Lebanon and such countries.

Today, (Engström) was excluded from his party, Moderaterna (“the Moderates”). Today, a fellow party member had a letter-to-the-editor published in the same newspaper, where he maintained that “it is not the immigration that gives frightening consquences for the society; it is the blind criticism without nuances of it”.

I mention this just to show you how completely impossible it is to talk about the quantity of immigrants that Sweden can embrace, and the results of the quantities received so far. So despite nationwide riots, we are still not allowed or able to talk about it, unless we want to be labelled “racists”, foremost by the media and the journalists. This is, in fact, an indication of Sweden’s severe predicament.  >Source

Cambria Will Not Yield says ”The liberals tell us straight out that White people have no rights as a people, except the right to be exterminated. The second materialist flaw in the “I’ll respect your culture and you respect mine” is that the colored tribesmen do not believe in respecting other cultures. Their idea of culture is, “We shall destroy your culture.” This is true of every colored tribe: red, yellow, black, and brown. An awareness of the spiritual battle will allow the European to see that he cannot compromise with the colored barbarians, or the liberals.” … more

Also Read:

Race Riots in Sweden

Will Sweden Save Itself?

Can Sweden Survive Multi-Racialism?

Swedes Surrenders To Muslim Invaders

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Sweden TOPS In Rapes

…older entries are found in the categories section,
“Sweden“, for example.

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• Riots and Welfare (lewrockwell.com)

Church must reach out into the world
The Advocate
... we can offer very tangible assistance to our wider community -- such as our new Oasis Alliance of Greater Danbury, the mission of which is to "extend extravagant welcome and respect for LGBTQA people," or our Refugee Resettlement program, which has ...

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US Reveals It Held Hundreds of Immigrant Kids in Adult Detention
Voice of America
Currently, federal regulations require DHS to refer children under the age of 18 to the Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within 72 hours of their apprehension. ORR is specifically tasked to work with ...

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Editorial: Obama right to show restraint in Syria
Chicago Sun-Times
... Shia and Sunni Islam, it's strategically situated between Iran and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon, it's already degenerated into a bitter sectarian war, and it's further complicated by Russia's arming of dictator Bashar al-Assad in a ...

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Jordan, Tunisia organize rallies for Jerusalem
Kuwait News Agency
They hailed the struggle of the Palestinian people against forced migration of Palestinians and Israeli conspiracies to change the Arab features of Palestine in general and Jerusalem in particular. Addressing the march, Chairman of the Arab Engineers ...

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The Irrawaddy News Magazine
Myanmar NGOs Call for International Aid to Displaced Kachin
Radio Free Asia
... Myanmar's economic hub Yangon marking official talks to end hostilities between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the military which have left several thousand dead since June 2011 and highlighting the plight of internally displaced persons ...
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The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu, 2007.

Public debate surrounding immigration is even more heated now than it was in 2007 when this book was published. Mengestu personalizes the immigration “issue”. The narrator is from Ethiopia, and his best friends are from Kenya and Congo. They share a history of violent dislocation.

Stephanos, the narrator, owns a struggling store in a struggling Washington DC neighborhood. A woman moves in and renovates a large, once elegant house, and change imposes itself on the community. Stephanos and the woman are mutually attracted, but somehow keep “missing” each other. Loneliness is the theme of this book.

This is a well written book. I feel like I got to know some people I’m might otherwise not have encountered.

The book seems to also have another title, Children of the Revolution. I found this out from Amazon.com, when I looked to see what else Mengestu wrote. A second book, How to Read the Air, was published in 2010. I hope he keeps writing.

 

Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed
UNICEF (press release)
UNICEF's Urgent Funding Requirements: June-August 2013 [PDF]. UNICEF USA: Lucy Liu Visits Syrian Child Refugees video. Mia Farrow: Don't let Syria's children die (CNN). Syrian crisis appeal: Watch the video عربي | English | Español | Français | 中文 ...

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Palestinians Have Suffered … at the Hands of Their Leaders
Commentary Magazine
... if instead of concentrating on trying to kill Jews, be they Olympic athletes or the children slaughtered by suicide bombers during the second intifada, Palestinians had focused their efforts on peaceful development, refugee resettlement or peaceful ...

"Controlled Trial of Psychotherapy for Congolese Survivors of Sexual Violence," New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 368, 23 (June 2013) [free full-text]
- See also related comment.

"Culture- and Evidence-based Health Promotion Group Education Perceived by New-coming Adult Arabic-speaking Male and Female Refugees to Sweden—Pre and Two Post Assessments," Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, vol. 3, no. 1 (2013) [open access text]

"Evaluating Asylum Seekers: Physicians for Human Rights' Asylum Network," Sampsonia Way (May 2013) [access]
- Series of interviews with physicians who volunteer with the Asylum Network.

"Is Legal Status Impacting Outcomes of Group Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Male Asylum Seekers and Refugees from Iran and Afghanistan?," BMC Psychiatry 13:148 (May 2013) [open access text]

"Psychiatric Treatment with People Displaced in or from Fragile States," Forced Migration Review, no. 43 (May 2013) [open access text]

Tagged Publications. 

UN Makes Record $5bn Appeal for Syria
Aleteia
Following this principle of centralising the dignity of the person, Cardinal Veglio asserted that “protection must be guaranteed to all who live under conditions of forced migration, taking into account their specific needs, which can vary from a ...

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By Sue Lloyd-Roberts

BBC Newsnight

Some of the Syrians fleeing the conflict in their country have crossed Turkey aiming for Greece, in order to claim asylum in the European Union. But to get there they have to take to boats – and there have been persistent reports of Greek officials pushing them back into Turkish waters, sometimes with fatal results.

“Everything we would do for our families and our fathers, we do the same thing for these people. We bury them in the Islamic way,” says Ekrem Serif-Oamadoglou, as he points to 400 freshly dug graves clustered on the remote hillside.

The cemetery is just outside Sidiro, a Muslim village on the Greek side of the Evros river, close to where it forms a fast-flowing, kilometre-wide barrier between Greece and Turkey.

The 400 dead are all people who have drowned as they attempted to cross the river and slip illegally into Europe. It is only here, at the end, that they find friends in Greece, the members of the local Muslim community who bury them.

“They came from places all over the world, but we regard them as brothers,” says Serif-Oamadoglou, the local imam’s son. “They came here for a better life, but unfortunately they were unlucky.”…

(Full report, pictures and video on BBC’s website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22757485?ocid=socialflow_twitter_bbcworld)

source: I cant relax in Greece

Events:

KNOW RESET Final Conference: Refugee Resettlement in the EU: Towards a Concerted and Sustainable Commitment,  Brussels, 10 July 2013 [info]
- Register by 25 June 2013.

Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability: 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Amsterdam, 25-27 June 2013 [info]
- Includes panel on "Looking for Europe: How the Immigration and Asylum Policies Construct (or not) the EU Identity".

Publications:

Beyond Proof: Credibility Assessment in EU Asylum Systems (UNHCR, May 2013) [text]
- See also the executive summary.

Protection Interrupted: The Dublin Regulation's Impact on Asylum Seekers' Protection (JRS Europe, June 2013) [access]
- Follow the link for the full report, an executive summary, a briefing paper, and individual country reports.

Shifting Responsibilities for EU Roma Citizens: The 2010 French Affair on Roma Evictions and Expulsions Continued, Liberty and Security in Europe (CEPS, June 2013) [text]

"Spiritual Assistance during Two Refugee Crises in the Republic of Macedonia," The Anthropology of East Europe Review, vol. 31, no. 1 (2013) [open access text]

Where is my Home? Homelessness and Access to Housing among Asylum-seekers, Refugees and Persons with International Protection in... (UNHCR, May 2013)
- Reports for Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia are available.  See also related press release and photo essay.

Tagged Publications and Events & Opportunities. 

There is a huge problem with trash in Jordan. It comes from a lot of factors, which I’ll skip over theorizing on now, but the point is litter is everywhere and people take a very nonchalant attitude towards it. In fact, it is not strange to be walking behind someone and see him drop a wrapper/cigarette/coffee cup onto the ground as he walks – without a second glance.

In Baqa’a this problem is even more evident, exasperated by the fact that there are even worse services than in Amman (trash pick up, sewage, etc).

House in Baqa’a Camp

Trash outside a school

The OWA is not immune.. in fact the outside area we play in has been almost unuseable due to trash, glass, and stones strewn across it.

So for “Earth Day,” Marah, Nadine, and I decided to do something about it. We organized a “Baqa’a Beautification Day” to teach the children about respecting the environment and take action by cleaning up our own center.

Nadine filmed our class as we discussed why its important to clean the earth — the problems currently faced in our community — and what we can do about it. Then, of course, we sang songs and colored pictures. To close, Nadine interviewed some students and made a 60 second film for us:

“It’s Earth Day at the Orphan Welfare Association! Baqa’a is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, with more than 100,000 registered refugees. A few excited kids tell us, in 60 seconds, how we can live more sustainably and care for the environment. They remind us what we already know, but sometimes forget: we all share the Earth.”

Isn’t she amazing? Aren’t the kids adorable? I truly believe that education is the only way to change a huge, complicated, societal problem like littering here in Jordan. Our kids will be on the front lines, telling their friends about how Miss Julie and Miss Marah never throw trash on the ground and yza3lu (get sad) whenever someone does..

Here are some shots from our clean up of the center:

UN News Centre
Up to 140000 people still displaced one year after communal clashes in ...
UN News Centre
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that it stands ready to support the Government in registering all internally displaced persons (IDPs) and to promote reconciliation for safe and sustainable voluntary returns. UNHCR has been working ...

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