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Mark Hetfield: A Sad Shavuot in Tel Aviv

2012-05-25T12:20:54Z

The spirit of Shavuot is marred by this week's mob violence against asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in South Tel Aviv.

Read more: Jewish Holidays, Israel, Shavuot, Asylum, Refugees, Asylum Seekers Israel, Israel Asylum Seekers, Impact News

Erin Levin: With Open Arms: How a Congolese Refugee and a Few Hard Working Texas Moms Are Bringing the World Together

2012-05-16T18:05:00Z

Odile is a refugee. Leslie is an entrepreneur. These two women from extremely different backgrounds now work together. They up-cycle T-shirts headed to the landfill into trendy skirts and scarves.

Read more: Texas, Creative Visions Foundation, Shopping, Social Entrepreneurship, Austin, Africa, Uganda, Congo, Job Creation, Refugees, Good News News

Michelle Chen: U.N. Strike Shows Convergence of Labor and Middle East Politics

2012-05-15T10:47:12Z

In a way, this was a classic labor conflict between a public agency and workers. But UNRWA is a unique international bureaucracy, with a global budget crisis intertwined with the politics of the conflict-ridden regions it serves.

Read more: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jordan, Arab Spring, Unesco, Middle East, War, United Nations, Refugees, Humanitarian Aid, Amman, Un Strike, World News

Jim Luce: At Cipriani: 2012 Women Refugee Voices of Courage

2012-05-14T13:31:42Z

This year, a luncheon hosted by the Women's Refugee Commission focused on the need to protect and empower displaced adolescent girls -- one of the most vulnerable groups within a refugee setting.

Read more: Women?S Issues, Women?S Refugee Commission, Sri Lanka, Refugees, Irc, International Rescue Committee, Oiww, 2012 Women Refugee Voices of Courage, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Global Fund for Women, Nicaragua, Rim Tekie Solomon, Red Cross, Npr, Texas, Social Responsibility, Haiti, Olga Cantarero, Israel, Sudan, Orphans International Worldwide, Rwanda, Impact News

Andrée Simon: A Mother's Dream From War to Peace

2012-05-10T11:58:21Z

This Mother's Day, and every day, my greatest dream for my children is peace and stability. That may not seem like much, but to me, it's everything.

Read more: Motherhood, Violence Against Women, Kosovo, Mother's Day, Refugees, War, Impact News

Georgianne Nienaber: U.S. and Rwanda Caught With Diplomatic Pants Down in Congo

2012-05-05T12:39:36Z

Diplomacy is one thing; enabling is another. It seems Rwanda and the United States have been caught with their diplomatic pants down.

Congolese and i...

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Undocumented Immigrant Offers To Leave, Gets Locked Up Instead

2012-05-04T19:36:00Z

Kalsum Pangkey, a 56-year-old undocumented immigrant from Indonesia, went to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on April 25 to report that ...

Read more: Politics News, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Indonesian Refugees, Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration, Undocumented Immigrant, Refugees, Asylum, Deportation, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

Dan Persons: Tribeca 2012 Diary: Una Noche Director Lucy Mulloy

2012-04-25T09:51:22Z

The drama of three young Cubans taking the not-inconsequential step of escaping their country to the (possibly) welcoming arms of the United States is traced in startling detail in Una Noche.

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Congresswoman Visits Church Serving As Sanctuary For Immigrants

2012-04-06T19:17:00Z

Three men who fled persecution in their native Indonesia are now living in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation, as its pastor and members of Cong...

Read more: Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Indonesian Family Refugee Protection Act, Indonesian Refugees, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration, Deportation, Refugees, Asylum, Carolyn Maloney, Politics News

State Dept. Steps Up Aid To Syrian Refugee Communities

2012-04-05T16:58:03Z

WASHINGTON -- With the crisis in Syria showing little sign of abating, the State Department has begun to step up its efforts to assist the tens of tho...

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American Anthropological Association: The Syrian Regime and the Opposition

2012-04-02T12:28:58Z

In other parts of the Arab world there was unity between classes and sects, at least for the duration of the protests in public squares, but this is not the case in Syria.

Read more: Arab Uprising, Damascus, Regime Change, Syria Protests, Homs, Refugees, Syria, World News

American Anthropological Association: Troops Out, Now What?

2012-03-29T14:42:54Z

Militarism in the U.S. seems to have a gravitational force pulling a wide array of resources and sectors into its orbit. Our involvement with Iraq serves as a case study for how deeply rooted militarism is in American culture and political life.

Read more: Iraqi Refugees, Iraq War, Iraq Veterans, Support the Troops, Global War on Terror, Afghanistan, US Troop Withdrawal, Ptsd, Counterinsurgency, Iraq War Veterans, College News

Millions Needed To Avert Hunger Crisis In Niger

2012-03-26T00:52:14Z

NIAMEY, Niger -- The British aid agency Oxfam says millions of dollars are needed urgently to stop a hunger crisis in Niger turning into a catastrophe...

Read more: Video, Samuel Braimah, Poverty, Famine, Osfam, Hunger Crisis, Refugees, World News

Human Rights First: ICE Pledge on Immigration Detention Tested Today at Karnes Facility

2012-03-13T13:35:18Z

Karnes County, I hope, will provide a new model for more appropriate detention conditions -- a model that will mean little if it is not just a first step in transforming all facilities where ICE holds immigrants.

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Louis Belanger: Drought in Sahel Could Become a Catastrophe for 13 Million

2012-03-08T19:55:32Z

Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a full scale humanitarian emergency in the Sahel region of West and Central Africa if urgent action is not taken.

Read more: West Africa, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Food Crisis, Refugees, Oxfam, Chad, Appeal, Saehl, Burkina, Video, World News

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen: 'Green News Report' - March 8, 2012

2012-03-08T17:43:11Z

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Salena Tramel: Afghan Elders Describe Cruelest Winter in Charahi Qambar Camp

2012-03-06T14:49:00Z

For the residents of the Charahi Qambar refugee camp, it's been a long five years since they fled the U.S.-led destruction of their villages and put up tents in this destitute Kabul neighborhood. But over the winter, it was not bombs but snowfalls that crushed shelters and threatened lives.

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Sarah Wayne Callies: For Two Refugee Families an Ocean Apart, the Joy and Promise of a New Home

2012-03-01T14:23:30Z

My journey takes me across an ocean and the International Date Line. Three movies, four TV shows, half a novel and a long nap later, here I am in Bangkok.

Read more: Thailand, Human Rights, International Rescue, International Rescue Committee, Irc, Bangkok, Refugees, Thailand Refugees, Impact News

David M. Robinson: Three Million: Changing Lives One Refugee at a Time

2012-02-24T14:09:31Z

Ninety-nine percent of all Americans trace our heritage to foreign lands. Our founding fathers would be proud that our nation continues to offer a place of refuge to the most persecuted from many ethnicities, races and religions, who now call America home.

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Dorian de Wind: Our War in Afghanistan: Must Children Freeze to Death?

2012-02-09T21:20:50Z

I have expressed increased concerns about our continued "involvement" in Afghanistan. I have mourned our casualties and fretted about our huge financial costs. But -- perhaps insensitively so -- I have not mentioned much about the suffering of the Afghan people.

Read more: Afghanistan War Casualties, Internally Displaced Persons, Kabul-Afghanistan, Refugees, United Nations, Afghanistan War, World News

Georgianne Nienaber: Burning, Looting, Rape and "Sad Faces" Provide Virtual Reality in Congo

2012-02-03T13:07:42Z

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World Food Programme: Humanitarian Crisis Looms In Sudan

2012-01-30T11:36:39Z

JUBA, South Sudan -- The World Food Program estimates that as many as a half million people could be forced to flee Sudan if the government in Khartou...

Read more: Hunger, World Food Programme, South Kordofan, Sudan, Ramiro Lopes Da Silva, Refugees, Blue Nile, Video, Impact News

Ming Holden: Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure

2011-12-21T19:21:00Z

It wasn't until I mobilized a theater group for female survivors of gang rape at the hands of rebel army soldiers who murdered their parents in front of them that I truly learned what self-expression means to the future of democracy.

Read more: Youth, Somalia, Collaborative Power, Horn of Africa, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Al'Shabaab, Kenya, Congo, Election Violence, Ptsd, Refugees, Foreign Policy, Youth Empowerment, Identity Politics, Nairobi, World News

Samuel Witten: Skills To Survive: Providing Refugee Women The Right To Work

2011-12-10T11:17:47Z

Refugees are victims of circumstances they did not create and cannot control. And women, often unaccompanied by men, caring for young children, and lacking in job skills and opportunities, generally have the most difficult time.

Read more: Job Skills, Women's Refugee Commission, Emergencies, Human Rights, Economic Opportunities, Humanitarian, Livelihoods, Gender-Based Violence, Refugees, Gender, Impact News

Charity Tooze: UN Refugee Agency Applauds U.S. Government's Pledges

2011-12-08T12:25:00Z

Secretary Clinton's attendance at the conference is testament to the United States' leadership and commitment to protection of and humanitarian assistance to refugees, stateless, and other vulnerable people worldwide.

Read more: Unhcr, Pledges, Refugees, Hillary Clinton, Antonio Guterres, Detention, u.s. Human Rights, Hillary Clinton LGBT Rights, Hillary Clinton Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Politics News