Source: The Australian Newspaper
A WOMAN held at the nation's second-biggest immigration detention centre was allegedly raped repeatedly in front of her toddler because she could not lock the door to her room.
The claim -- and reports of widespread drug abuse among detainees -- will be at the centre of an inve …
This article was originally a comment intending to give broader perspective to an AP story by Jamal Halaby. It wasn't until I had almost completed the comment that I realized that it could very well serve as a decent article.
Source: amin.org
In the spring of 1948, some Jewish mukhtars (headmen) of Jewish colonies in Palestinian went over to the Arab Palestinian mukhtars in the nearby villages which maintained good neighbourly relations with them and whispered in their ears, “we are your good friends and neighbours …
Source: abc.net.au
In East Timor, two more refugee camps have opened for people fleeing the ongoing unrest in Dili, but aid agencies say food and medical supplies are running out.
In one camp three babies have been born since the weekend and UNICEF says the lack of hygiene and proper maternal care …
“No life is better than this life”. Terézia (Németh) Toth
In its collective sentimentality, America of the 1950’s was the land of “Happy Days”. Life was simpler. Folks like John Wayne and Fess Parker showed us everything was black or white, right or wrong.
Source: expatica.com
-- All of the hunger strikers in the Brussels refugee shelter Klein Kasteeltje/Petit Chateau were taken to hospital on Monday due to their critical health condition.
Source: adnki.com
New York, 24 May (AKI) - Some 2,000 refugees from Burma, also known as Myanmar have flooded into Thailand over the last three months, citing renewed conflict and human rights abuses in Kayin state, with 400 crossing the border last week alone and more expected, the United Nations …
Source: soros.org
Life on the Thai-Burma Border—Resistance, Refugees, and Resettlement
Location: OSI - New York
Event Date(s): March 3, 2006
Speaker(s): Kristofer Dan-Bergman, Stephanie Guyer-Stevens
Multimedia: Audio
Background: Refugees as political advantage.
Australia is famously a nation of immigrants, an idea which ignores a bunch of people who have been here for around 45 thousand years.
Source: www9.sbs.com.au
Meanwhile the Australian Greens said the federal government's use of the
Pacific Solution would effectively place two million West Papuans under house arrest.
Source: metimes.com
The child of Iranian refugees who settled in Canada, Nazanin Afshin-Jam was runner-up in the 2003 Miss World contest. The young woman she is trying to help shares her first name.
Source: abc.net.au
Sierra Leone is pressing Australia to deny political asylum to 14 of its national squad members who deserted from the recent Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Fourteen out of the 22-strong team vanished from the Games in March only to turn up at refugee centres claiming they feare
Source: cnews.canoe.ca
Joshua Key, the first U.S. deserter with combat experience in Iraq to apply for refugee status in Canada, told the board he witnessed numerous atrocities committed by U.S. forces while serving for eight months as a combat engineer.
Source: smh.com.au
In one of the most blunt assessments of post-Taliban life in Afghanistan, a high-ranking United Nations representative has warned refugees not to return home because security is so dire...
Source: news.independent.co.uk
Ahmed Zaoui, Algerian cleric and university professor, member of the Algerian Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), sits back opposite a cluster of statues of the Virgin, a painting of Christ's crucifixion and three Catholic priests.
Source: nytimes.com
The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed, has spread across the border into Chad, deepening one of the world's worst refugee crises.
Source: The New York Times
The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed, has spread across the border into Chad, deepening one of the world's worst refugee crises.
Source: cnews.canoe.ca
Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey are asking a (CANADIAN) Federal Court judge to put their fight to remain in the country back before the Immigration and Refugee Board, which has already denied their claims
Source: alternet.org
Report about a family who was forced to migrate to New York after the Katrina disaster. If you want to learn about the hardships involved, read this article, it gives a troubling first-hand impression of the catastrophes that still follow the hurricane.
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