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"Saving its Secrets" Government Repression in Andijan  new

This 45-page report documents intense government pressure on people who participated in the Andijan protests, families of refugees who fled Uzbekistan in the aftermath of the Andijan violence, and refugees who returned to Uzbekistan. Interrogations, constant surveillance, ostracism, and threats continued to generate new refugees from Andijan.

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/uzbekistan0508/

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"You must help"

This article ponders the effects cell phones could have on giving a direct voice to the too-often-forgotton, after a text message from a Somali refugee camp in Kenya to the comfort of the London office of the UN World Food Programme brought the recent cutting of rations to hungry people into sharp focus. (Greg Barrow, Guardian, 20 June 2006)

http://society.guardian.co.uk/aid/comment/0,,1801779,00.html

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Armed Conflict Generates Hunger, Violence in the Cities

The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that about 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes by the civil war in Colombia. The displaced people who flock to Ciudad Bolívar, which is crowded with nearly one million of the eight million people who live in Bogotá, and Altos de Cazuca in the adjacent municipality of Soacha, swell virtually every poverty indicator, since they escaped with their lives leaving home, crops, land and loved ones behind. This article looks at what is being done and not done to help the people there. (HUmberto Marquez, IPS, 21 June 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33705

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Death trap: the human cost of the war on asylum (pdf file 612kb)

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR), by Harmit Athwal, 4 October 2004. than asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. Forced by circumstances beyond their control to seek a life outside their home countries, prevented by our laws from entering legally and from working, denied a fair hearing by the asylum system, excluded from health and safety protection at work, kept from social care and welfare, vilified by the media and therefore dehumanised in the popular imagination, their hopes of another life are finally extinguished. This report provides a "roll call of death" of the 180 asylum seekers and undocumented migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK in the past fifteen years.

http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/death_trap.pdf

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Iraq: The World's Fastest Growing Refugee Crisis

The UN estimates that nearly 2 million Iraqis have been displaced by violence in their country and fled to surrounding countries, the vast majority of which have fled since 2003. Some 1.9 million have vacated their homes for safer areas within Iraq, 900,000 of which have fled since 2003. Iraqi refugees are now living in Syria, Jordan, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, and Turkey. Most Iraqis are determined to be resettled to Europe or North America, and few consider return to Iraq an option. With no legal work options in their current host countries, Iraqis are already exploring the use of false documents to migrate to Western nations (Refugees International, 10 May 2007).

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/9679

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Iraq: U.S. Response to Displacement Remains Inadequate

As the conflict in Iraq intensifies, it is no longer possible to ignore its devastating effects on Iraqi civilians. In January 2007 the UN finally recognized that the death of tens of thousands of Iraqis and the displacement of four million others in Iraq and the region constitute a humanitarian crisis. This recognition represents a major step for the organization which until then had been working under the assumption that the situation in Iraq was conducive to reconstruction and development (Refugees International, 8 May 2007).

http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/article/detail/9993

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The world's first 'climate refugees'

One year after Hurricane Katrina struck, 370,000 people still have not returned to the U.S. Gulf Coast, with an estimated 250,000 of them having established new homes elsewhere. "They no longer want to face the personal trauma and financial risks associated with rising seas and destructive storms," Lester Brown, director of the Earth Policy Institute, said. "These evacuees are now climate refugees." (20 August 2006)

http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update57.htm

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"On Our Watch" - A Documentary About Genocide in Darfur

Three years of fighting in Darfur have destroyed hundreds of villages, displaced 2.2 million and led to more than 400,000 deaths. President Bush has accused the government of Sudan of genocide, but the U.S. has taken few concrete actions to stop the fighting. Narrated by Sam Waterston, this 11-minute documentary tells the story of those who have lost their loved ones to this war, those who are fighting to survive and those who are working to bring peace to the region. (Refugee International, 2006)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1587138622759665645&q=Refugees+International

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"Protection for refugees and the displaced: sharing the responsibility"

World Vision International Global Future Magazine Fourth Quarter, 2004 ONE IN 50 of the world's people, including as many as 25 million children, are now refugees, migrants, asylum seekers or displaced persons. Often uprooted by armed conflict, human rights abuse, or the violence of poverty or hunger, they have fled to another part of their own land or across an international border. This edition of Global Future examines their protection needs and rights. Contents: # Protection and paradox - Ruud Lubbers # Burden sharing - Pakistan's experience - Yusuf Ghaznavi # Building a culture of protection - challenges and opportunities for NGOs - Mary E Pack # Children - the most vulnerable uprooted - Carol Toms & Heather MacLeod # Protecting human rights, preventing dislocation - Arthur E Dewey # The human rights of asylum seekers - Marcus Einfeld # Internally displaced persons - the protection gap - Walter Kälin # Protecting internally displaced people in Uganda - Robby Muhumuza # Living in limbo - on-shore asylum seekers - David Spitteler # Challenges of refugee protection in Tanzania - Omar Ramadhan Mapuri # Putting right the wrongs of war? housing in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Elizabeth Hughes-Komljen # Preventing re-displacement - Tom Getman # Neighbours, asylum and xenophilia - Ismo Rama

http://www.globalfutureonline.org/PolicyAdvocacy/GlblFutr.nsf/currentissue/current

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'Learning for a future: refugee education in developing countries'

UNHCR, Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, Health and Community Development Section January 2002. The research papers presented here represent a step forward in the task of developing deeper professional insights into the field of refugee education and education in emergency situations in general. It is hoped that they will be of assistance to field practitioners and programme managers, but also to donors in understanding the need for consistent and adequate funding for refugee education.

http://www.unhcr.org/pubs/epau/learningfuture/learningtoc.htm

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A just Australia : Australians for just refugee programmes

What is A Just Australia? A Just Australia is the theme of the campaign coordinated by national campaign umbrella group, Australians for Just Refugee Programs Inc. Launched in July 2002, A Just Australia brings together over 9,500 individual supporters, 100 non-governmental organisations and 70 prominent Australian Patrons. The core mission of A Just Australia is to campaign for changes to government policy on refugee and asylum seekers. We believe that Australia's policies toward refugees and asylum seekers should at all times reflect respect, decency and traditional Australian generosity to those in need, while advancing Australia's international standing and national interests. We aim to achieve just and compassionate treatment of refugees, consistent with the human rights standards which Australia has developed and endorsed.

http://www.ajustaustralia.com/home.php

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A Price Too High: The cost of Australia's approach to Asylum Seekers

This report by Oxfam and A Just Australia, presents new research that shows that, since 2001, it has cost the Australian taxpayer more than $500,000 per person to process fewer than 1,700 asylum seekers in Nauru, Manus and Christmas Island. This compares with estimates from the Australian Government's Department of Immigration and Citizenship which suggests that the cost of holding asylum seekers in a mainland Australian detention centre is only 3.5% of the running costs of the Pacific Solution. The report also details the health and other costs born by the asylum seekers detained as part of the 'Pacific Solution'.

http://www.oxfam.org.au/media/files/APriceTooHigh.pdf

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All in a day's work: 200,000 refugees and roving bandits

Few volunteers last six months in eastern Chad, but aid worker Claire Bourgeois has spent two years here for the UNHCR, responsible for all 200,000 Darfur refugees. (Claire Soares, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2006)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0720/p01s02-woaf.html

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American Refugee Committee International

The American Refugee Committee works with refugees, displaced people, and those at risk to help them survive crises and rebuild lives of dignity, health, security and self-sufficiency.

http://www.arcrelief.org/site/PageServer

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AUSTCARE: Australians Caring for Refugees

AUSTCARE's mission is to mobilise support for refugees and displaced people, including those affected by landmines and natural disasters, by assisting them to meet their basic needs and build better lives. AUSTCARE is a non-profit independent organisation which was founded in 1967 through the co-operation of various community organisations committed to improving life for refugees. It was established as a permanent Australian-based organisation to co-ordinate refugee assistance activities. It set up the now-independent Refugee Council of Australia, and AUSTCARE now specialises in working with refugees and displaced people overseas.

http://www.austcare.org.au/

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Australian Journal of Human Rights: Information Relevant to Refugee Law in Australia

A wide variety of material, data, information, case law and articles to do with refugee law in Australia.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/ahric/refugee_info/

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BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights

BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights takes a rights-based approach to the Palestinian refugee issue through research, advocacy and support of community participation in the search for durable solutions.

http://www.badil.org

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Before and After Arrival: The Plight of African Refugees (in Aotearoa New Zealand)

A Discussion Paper by Yilma Tafere Tasew 6th July 2002. Wellington, New Zealand. This discussion paper will outline my experience as a refugee and will have an emphasis on the plight of African refugees. I will talk of the experience of refugees comiing out of the troubled areas of Africa, about life in the camps and then life after re-settlement. I will then link these experiences with the current world crisis. I want to propose some ideas to the Government and NGOs of New Zealand.

http://www.dev-zone.org/kcdocs/5302yilma.html

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Blood on the Palms: Afro-Colombians Fight New Plantations

South of Buenaventura along the Pacific, in the coastal lowlands of the department of Nariño, oil palm plantations are spreading through historically Afro-Colombian lands. The plantation owners' association, Fedepalma, plans to expand production to a million hectares (about 3,861 square miles), and the government has proposed that by 2020 seven million hectares will be used for export crops, including oil palms. (David Bacon, Upside Down World, 18 July 2007).

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/816/1/

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Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues (CMYI)

The Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues (CMYI) is an Australian community-based organisation that aims to strengthen and build innovative partnerships between young people, support services and the community to enhance life opportunities for young people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds. The Centre has a priority focus on CLD young people from refugee and newly-arrived communities. Originally established in 1988 as the Ethnic Youth Issues Network (EYIN) the organisation was re-named the Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues (CMYI) in 2000 to coincide with the change of auspice to the Australian Multicultural Foundation (AMF). The CMYI receives core funding from the Victorian, Office for Youth as well as state and federal funding for specific initiatives and innovative programs. The CMYI represents a range of individuals and organisations from CLD communities, government and non-government organisations with a commitment to improving the social and personal status of young people from CLD backgrounds.

http://www.cmyi.net.au

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China Boosts Compensation for Millions Displaced by Water Projects

China is to increase compensation for millions of farmers relocated to make way for dams and reservoirs, in a bid to prevent rural unrest. The funding package is part of a new regulation that stipulates minimum levels of compensation and an annual subsidy for those displaced by water projects. The money will be transferred directly into the bank accounts of those affected in a bid to prevent corrupt officials from embezzling the funds, a common problem in China's land acquisitions. (VOA News, August 14, 2006)

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-08-14-voa10.cfm

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Darfur Bleeds: Recent Cross-Border Violence in Chad

The crisis in Darfur, Sudan, which has been trickling into Chad for the better part of three years, is now bleeding freely across the border. A counterinsurgency carried out by the Sudanese government and its militias against rebel groups in Darfur, characterized by war crimes and "ethnic cleansing," has forcibly displaced almost two million civilians in Darfur and another 220,000 people who have fled across the border into Chad. The same ethnic "Janjaweed" militias that have committed systematic abuses in Darfur have staged cross-border raids into Chad, attacking Darfurian refugees and Chadian villagers alike, seizing their livestock and killing those who resist. This report is based on a Human Rights Watch research mission to eastern Chad in January-February 2006. (Human Rights Watch, February 2006)

http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/africa/chad0206/

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Dark Reality for Nepal's Internally Displaced People

Threatened by an environment of increasing violence, harassment and intense political pressure from Maoists rebels and government security forces, thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes in rural Nepal, creating a staggering number of internally displaced people (IDPs). Since the conflict began in February 1996, aid agencies estimate that between 200,000 and 1.8 million people have been displaced. Despite the overwhelming numbers, humanitarian aid for IDPs is grossly inadequate and there is only one IDP camp in the country with just 1,000 residents. (Will Baxter, Towards Freedom, 13 April 2006)

http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/795/

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Debunking the Myths about Asylum Seekers

From the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice & Community Education and the School of Education of the Australian Catholic University: Special Edition, September 2001. Myth 1 - Boat People are Queue Jumpers; Myth 2 - Asylum Seekers are Illegal; Myth 3 - Australia Already Takes Too Many Refugees; Myth 4 - We're Being Swamped by Hordes of Boat People; Myth 5 - They're Not Real Refugees Anyway; Myth 6 - They Must Be 'Cashed up' to Pay People Smugglers; Myth 7 - There is no Alternative to Mandatory Detention; Myth 8 - If We Let Them In, They'll Take Our Benefits.

http://www.erc.org.au/issues/text/se01.htm

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Displacement and Vulnerability: An investigation into the complex dynamics in north-west Cambodia (pdf)

The report explores the affects of displacement in north-west Cambodia and the vulnerabilities that arise as a result. Through a series of interviews, questionnaires and focus groups with the members of rural households, the authors investigate the types of vulnerability that displaced people face. Ill health, domestic violence, shocks to incomes and the risk of further displacement are just a sample of the challenges that are explored in the report. (Ian MacAuslan and Graham Wood, Ockenden International, January 2006)

http://www.ockenden.org.uk/temp/Displacementspandspvulnerabilityspreport.pdf

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