Iraq Refugees Flee for Jordan, Syria

More than 650,000 Iraqis fled their homeland for Jordan and Syria since the beginning of 2005, according to a refugee survey released on Wednesday.

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Paper: N.Korean Refugees to Travel to U.S.

The United States has decided to allow four North Korean asylum seekers staying at an American diplomatic mission in China to travel to the U.S., a South Korean newspaper reported Friday.

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Law Said Confuses Refugees, Terrorists

Some of Nyunt Win's friends, who once fought with rebel groups in Myanmar and now live in refugee camps, hope to join him in the United States. But they may not make it.

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Officials: U.S. Assists N. Korean Refugees

The Bush administration is working to bring a group of North Korean refugees to the United States and could have them in the country within two weeks, a State Department official said Wednesday.

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U.N.: Asylum Requests Fall in Rich Nations

The number of asylum seekers in European and North American countries fell sharply in 2005, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday, confirming a four-year downward trend that has brought annual asylum applications in those regions to their lowest levels in two decades.

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U.N.: Chadians Flee to Sudan's Darfur

Fighting between soldiers and rebels in eastern Chad is sending civilians fleeing across the border into Sudan's Darfur, site of one of the world's bloodiest conflicts over the last three years, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.

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Summary: Vietnamese Refugees Reach U.S.

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Britons told: you may be stuck for a fortnight

Thousands of British passport holders were still waiting to be evacuated from Lebanon last night after the worst day of bloodshed in the country since the start of the latest conflict. As about 1,000 US citizens were taken to Cyprus on the cruise ship Orient Queen to join thousa …

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Migrants' boat drifts while nations quarrel

A Spanish fishing boat packed with 51 Eritrean migrants, including a pregnant woman and several children, spent its fifth day drifting off the Maltese coast Wednesday, as Malta, Spain and Libya disputed who should provide a refuge.

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Australian Defence Staff For Beirut

More than 60 Australian Defence Force personnel are on their way to Beirut to help coordinate the evacuation of hundreds of nationals wanting to get out of Lebanon.

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Australians left stranded again in Beirut

More than 200 Australians have been left stranded in Beirut for a second time after they were barred from boarding a Greek ship evacuating foreign nationals. The Australians were left standing on the dock as the Greek naval frigate sailed for Cyprus. Israel had set a deadline f …

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Lebanon evacuees speak of terror, minister says Israel is aiming to bring famine to Lebanon

From the article: Evacuees who arrived back in Spain and Italy Tuesday from battered Lebanon spoke of terror and turmoil on their way to safety outside the country.

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World Health Organisation: Lebanese Residents Displaced by Israeli Bombardment Expected to Top 900,000

Israel continues to target Lebanon's infrastructure and bomb civilian neighborhoods. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization expects the number of Lebanese residents displaced by the assault to reach 900,000 by the end of today.

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The Top 5 Things I Don't Understand About the Israel/Palestinian Conflict

This situation is not a black and white issue (what major conflict is?). There are intelligent and thought provoking people on both sides of the argument. There are extremists on both sides as well.

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2006 Nansen Refugee Award goes to Japanese man with global vision

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Pen pal project links Burundian refugees to students in France

From the page: -- Primary students in Paris are making new friends and getting an insight into the lives of Burundian refugee children in this camp under a project launched earlier this year. --

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Peace Has No Borders

A Rally in Support of Iraq War Resisters AWOL in Canada

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Angelina Jolie Says U.S. Should Fight AIDS, Not Wars

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Citizen Journalism at Its Best

-- Refugee reporters living in a Liberian refugee camp outside of Accra, Ghana, have a lot to celebrate on June 20, World Refugee Day. The day will mark the two-year anniversary of the Vision, the only newspaper in the world written by and for Liberian refugees.

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'Hope' Is the Word as World Refugee Day Is Marked Around the Globe

-- UN refugee agency staff and partner organisations around the globe are marking World Refugee Day on Tuesday (June 20) with hundreds of special events and activities focusing on the theme, "Hope."

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For Nine Million Refugee Youth, A Chance to Learn and Play

-- Nine million faces. Nine million names. Nine million stories. They are the world's forgotten refugee youth.

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World Refugee Day being observed; UNHCR unhappy with Nepal

-- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed dissatisfaction over the Nepal government's passivity on third country resettlement of Bhutanese refugees.

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UN Refugee Day Sends Message Of Hope

-- Countries around the world mark the World Refugee Day on June 20 with events honoring the struggle of the world's displaced people and refugees.

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Exceptional repatriation of long-time Congolese refugees ends

-- Taken to Sudan as an infant, Alberto Imangilikuwa saw his native country for the first time on Sunday.

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International community needs to do more for Liberia returnees, UNHCR chief

-- The international community should do more to assist returning Liberian refugees if peace is to take root there, said Antonio Guterres top official of the UN's refugee agency UNHCR while visiting neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire.

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Darfur deal

-- A Darfur peace deal has "serious flaws" and only an urgent, robust U.N. peacekeeping mission will ensure it does not collapse and further divide the violent region, a think tank report said on Tuesday.

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Sri Lanka's Tamils turn to smugglers to flee conflict

-- Maduraweeran Kantharajah was so desperate to flee conflict between Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels that he sold his furniture and wife's jewellery to pay smugglers to sail his family to India.

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Indian plan to dam northeast rivers stirs critics

-- Ambitious plans to build dams and hydro power projects throughout the hills of India's remote northeast have trodden on some sensitive toes in the troubled region.

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Solving the "Refugee Problem" by Creating More Refugees

The latest talk from the leaders of the Israeli government is that they will be willing to withdraw from at least 90% of the West Bank in order to make room for a new Palestinian State (my objections to this are here).

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Sexual abuse widespread in detention centres, doctor says

A prominent psychiatrist claims that sexual harassment and abuse is widespread within immigration detention centres and has called on authorities to investigate.

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Migration law report to be tabled in Parliament

Federal Parliament resumes today for the final session before the winter break, with some major changes to be debated. Among the most difficult for the Government is the plan to process asylum seekers who arrive by boat, offshore ...

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A Referendum About What??

The headlines have been awash in recent weeks regarding the referendum in the Palestinian-controlled areas of Israel.

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