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

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Unhcr, Fardc, Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosco Ntaganda, Human Rights Watch, Fdlr, Refugees, Radio Okapi, Hillary Clinton, Kase Lawal, Rwanda, Conflict Minerals, Goma, Masisi, Smuggling, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Walikale, President Barack Obama, Rape, Congo, Video, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

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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UN Refugee Agency Applauds U.S. Government's Pledges

Charity Tooze | Posted 02.07.2012

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
Charity Tooze

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.

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Urban Refugees: Ingenuity is Essential to Making Ends Meet in Nairobi

Jina Krause-Vilmar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Livelihood, Women's Refugee Commission, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Nairobi, Refugees, International Rescue Committee, Eastleigh, Impact News
Jina Krause-Vilmar

In Nairobi and cities worldwide, hardworking women deserve the chance to make better lives for themselves.

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Shocking Stunt on Tap for Artist Without a Country

NYCity News Service | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marat Gelman Gallery, Russia, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Art, Oleg Mavromatti, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Avdey Ter-Oganyan, Boryana Rossa, Ron Feldman, Exit Art, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ron Feldman Fine Arts, New York City, Stanley Milgram, Arts News
NYCity News Service

By ALVA FRENCH Oleg Mavromatti, a Russian performance artist and filmmaker in limbo in Bulgaria, wants your vote -- and he says his life could depend ...

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Why I Oppose the New York Park51 Initiative

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, Iraq Children, Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Gaza-School, Pakistan Floods, Cordoba Initiative, New York, Muslim World, Unrwa, Islamophobia, Disaster Relief, Cordoba House, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Somalia, Ground Zero Islamic Center, Iraq, New York News
Firas Al-Atraqchi

Would all those funds and energies not be of better benefit elsewhere? Is the building of an Islamic center in New York a priority for the Muslim ummah (community)?

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Freedom To Write: An Exiled Chinese Dissident, a Conference in Istanbul, and Some Milky Tea

Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Writers, Human Rights, Inner Mongolia, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Chinese Dissidents, China Human Rights, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Mongolia, China, Refugees, Dissidents, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Expression, Politics News
Ming Holden

The man I met in front of the State Department Store didn't look like a refugee, which goes to show how many assumptions I had. Tumenulzii had an open and youthful face.

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Iraqi Refugees in the U.S.: Strangers in Paradise

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inter Press Service, Iraqi Refugees, Ips, Iraqi Christians, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Iraq, Refugees, International Rescue Committee, Chaldeans, World News
Crossover Dreams

Wars often drive people from their homes. But in Iraq, a discretionary war, launched through deception by a rogue administration in search of good targets for "shock and awe", produced refugees with industrial efficiency.

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Iraq Refugees Look to President's Lincoln and Obama

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011

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Luis Carlos Montalván

Why is there still no US-formulated "international strategic plan" to deal with the world's largest refugee crisis caused when our nation invaded Iraq over 6 years ago? On World Refugee Day, we can do better.

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Jordan First: A King's Modernization Motto Obscures a Palestinian Past and Iraqi Present.

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle East, Jordan, Palestinians, Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Arab World, Usaid, Persian Gulf, King Hussein Jordan, Palestinian Refugees, King Abdullah, United States, Jordan's Queen Rania, Foreign Policy, Arabs, Rising Food Prices, Global Food Prices, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Education Reform, Amman, Global Economy, Global Economic Crisis, World News
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Soon, I would learn that the "Jordan First" initiative, first launched in 2002 with the stated goals of reform and democratization, now carried a meaning much deeper.

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Angelina Jolie Goes To Afghanistan

People | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unhcr, Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie Afghanistan, Afghanistan, United Nations, Entertainment News

Angelina Jolie has returned from a two-day humanitarian trip to Afghanistan this week, visiting poverty-stricken families, according to the United Nat...

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The Surge "Success" Debunked

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee International, General Petraeus Surge, Shi'a Truce, Iraqi Benchmarks, United Nations, Internally Displaced Persons, US Congress, Sunni Ethnic Cleansing, Department of State, Ngo, Muqtada Al Sadr, The Surge, Unhcr, Justice and Accountability Law, Iraqi Refugees, Ehtno-Sectarian Violence, Sadrist Shi'A, Department of Defense, Siic, Kurds, Constitutional Review Committee, Abdul Al-Hakim, Baghdad, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, John McCain, Government Accountability Office, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Basra, Kirkuk, Ethnic Cleansing, Badr Corps, Marine Corps General Jones, Population Shifts Baghdad, Ucla, Kenneth Katzman, Congressional Research Service Report, Second Largest Refugee Crisis, Shi'a Militias, Center for American Progress, War on Terror, De-Baathification Law, Sons of Iraq, Second Presidential Debate, Transparency International, Crc, 2008 Presidential Race, War in Iraq, International Crisis Group, Sigir, Msm, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Peshmerga, Maliki, Sectarian Violence, Dr. John Agnew, General Petraeus, Sunni Awakening, Icg, Krg, Igos, Isf, Idp, Politics News
Luis Carlos Montalván

Iraq remains a powder keg. "The Surge" has done little to increase security, a state of civil war remains and regional conflict threatens greater problems for the future.

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British Foreign Secretary Announces Meeting With Angelina Jolie

AP | David Stringer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, David Miliband, Iraq, Afghanistan, Entertainment News

Foreign Secretary David Miliband will meet Angelina Jolie in New York this week to discuss global diplomacy, British officials said Tuesday. Miliband...

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