Refugees

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when they were first discovered in Sierra Leone the exploitation of the small country did not reach international attention until its devastating civil war of the 1990s 1 Left http www tkb org documents Groups GR4247 Child 20Soldier jpg Right http news bbc co uk olmedia 835000 images 838835 sierra300 jpg

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Tens of thousands of refugees are at risk from militias

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十多萬東帝汶難民仍住在西帝汶

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The civil war has created thousands of refugees

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Milioni di profughi ambientali Ecco arrivare l ennesimo allarme sugli effetti dei gravi dissesti ambientali che affliggono il pianeta A lanciarlo è l UNCCD Convenzione delle Nazioni Unite per la lotta alla

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Analysis India s Sri Lanka dilemma Sri Lankan refugees have been living in camps in India

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Now they seem lost again eligible for U S immigration yet trapped in a post 9 11 bureaucracy of tighter security rules that many say disproportionately affect African refugees In 1990 as civil war raged in Liberia Lincoln was captured by rebel forces She escaped and returned to her village to find her son 10 and daughter 11 gone So she fled walking barefoot

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afghan refugees

The refugee flow began as a trickle in April 1978 reaching a peak during the first half of 1981 when an estimated 4 700 crossed the Pakistan border daily The flow ebbed and surged in response to Soviet offenses so that by the fall of 1989 the number of Afghan refugees was estimated at 5 2 million in Pakistan The influx of refugees brought great ills for Pakistan as majority of refugees were uneducated and unskilled and burdened Pakistans crippling Economy even more Pakistan got Drugs and Gun Culture as a Reward

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Angelina Jolie releases new video to draw attention to plight

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie sits beside an Afghan boy in the refugee camp of Katcha Ghari on the edge of the Pakistani city of Peshawar After her three day visit to Pakistan she said that there was a clear need for international assistance both for those Afghans who have repatriated to their homeland and for those who do not yet feel confident to resume life in Afghanistan May 2005 UNHCR J Redden <b><u>Angelina Jolie releases new video to draw attention to plight of refugees around the world< u>< b> <b>This World Refugee Day UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie reminds us to take the time to remember refugees on this day and to respect refugees struggle < b> UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie released a new video this week in the run up to World Refugee Day June 20 The 30 second public service announcement was co produced by Angelina Jolie and UNHCR and includes images and video from refugees and other victims of conflict around the world It is expected to reach millions of viewers In addition to television networks the video is appearing on airport monitors at Amsterdam s Schiphol for example which sees about 130 000 travellers daily it will be shown every three minutes Washington s Dulles and Reagan terminals will display the video on 172 monitors On the first night that the public service announcement was available on YouTube it received more than 25 000 views Since becoming a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001 Jolie has travelled with the UN refugee agency to more than 20 countries to meet with refugees and field workers She has hosted public events with key decision makers to raise awareness among both the international community and general public about refugee issues This week Jolie will be attending events in Washington DC with UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres to mark World Refugee Day In her new video Jolie stresses that quot Refugees are the most vulnerable people on earth Every day they are fig

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UNHCR News Story Angelina Jolie voices support for Myanmar refugees

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie shares a laugh with Karenni refugee children in Ban Mai Nai Soi camp © UNHCR K McKinsey Angelina Jolie voices support for Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand camps BAN MAI NAI SOI REFUGEE CAMP Thailand February 5 UNHCR UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has called on the Thai government to grant Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand greater freedom of movement after spending a day listening to refugees tell of the difficulties they have faced in two decades of living in closed camps quot I was saddened to meet a 21 year old woman who was born in a refugee camp who has never even been out of the camp and is now raising her own child in a camp quot Jolie said after her visit Wednesday to Ban Mai Nai Soi camp home to 18 111 mainly Karenni registered refugees just three kms from the Myanmar border near Mae Hong Son quot With no foreseeable chance that these refugees will soon be able to return to Burma Myanmar we must find some way to help them work and become self reliant quot she said The 111 000 registered refugees who live in nine camps in northern Thailand along the Thai Myanmar border are not allowed to venture outside the camps to work or receive higher education In a thatched two room house on stilts Jolie sat down on the floor and chatted with refugee Ma Pai a 44 year old minority ethnic Kayan woman who has applied for resettlement to the United States At a boarding school for orphans and children separated from their parents Jolie listened attentively as two teenage girls sent across the border to the refugee camp by their parents for education told of their fears that they might have to go back to Myanmar when they finish their schooling quot I hope we can work with the Thai authorities to speed up the government admissions process and that you will not be forced to go back to Burma if danger remains quot Jolie said The Thai government s Provincial Admissions Board the only body that can grant refugee status to

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Palestinian refugees 1948 Palestinian refugees 2004

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Storm reaching a camp for Saharawi refugees

Fifteen minutes after the first photo is taken the storm finally reaches the camp To read more about Saharawi refugees search <a href= http www unhcr org >www unhcr org< a>

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Diseño Sierra Leone s Refugees All Stars

Este diseño en especial me gusto hacerlo primero por apoyar la no violencia en todo el mundo y segundo por la excelente musica de este grupo Recomendadisimo <a href= http www youtube com watch v=tpBpwSiRtL8 >www youtube com watch v=tpBpwSiRtL8< a>

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Afghan refugees

2001 11 14 Food distribution to Afghan refugees in New Shamsatoo camp near Peshawar in Pakistan in November 2001

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Local Integration A Durable Solution for Refugees

A Sri Lankan boy with Indian origin peeps out from his line room house in Strapthspey estate in upcot Sri Lanka on Saturday May 5 2007 The people who work on the estate are descended from Indians brought over by British colonials but never given Sri Lankan citizenship therefore beeing stateless A law in 2003 enabled Indian origin Tamil plantation workers to obtain citizenship provided their families had been in Sri Lanka since 1964 But most of plantation workers are unaware of the special declaration which automatically grants citizenship to Stateless UNHCR G Amarasinghe May 2007 <u>Local integration can be regarded as a process which leads to a durable solution for refugees It is a process with three necessary interrelated dimensions < u> First it is a legal process whereby refugees are granted a progressively wider range of rights and entitlements by the host state Under the terms of the 1951 Refugee Convention these include for example the right to seek employment to engage in other income generating activities to own and dispose of property to enjoy freedom of movement and to have access to public services such as education The process whereby refugees gain and accumulate rights may lead to the acquisition of permanent residence rights and ultimately to the acquisition of citizenship in the country of asylum Second local integration can be regarded as an economic process For in acquiring the rights and entitlements referred to above refugees also improve their potential to establish sustainable livelihoods to attain a growing degree of self reliance and to become progressively less reliant on state aid or humanitarian assistance In accordance with these indicators refugees who are prevented or deterred from participating in the local economy and whose standard of living is consistently lower than the poorest members of the host community cannot be considered to be locally integrated Third local integration is a social process enabling refugees to live a

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Katrina Refugees at the Astrodome

The floor of the Dome is packed with refugees from New Orleans who fled the Katrina disaster

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Refugees Ixil Triangle Guatemala 82

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