Refugees

Boat with 200 refugees arrives in Italy

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Thousands of Africans try to cross the oceans on rickety vessels like this each year Roughly 200 hundred refugees from Africa have arrived in Sicily, after travelling across the...

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W.Sahara activist refuses Madrid offer of refugee status (AFP)

AFP/File – Award-winning Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar gives a press conference in Arrecife airport on … MADRID (AFP) – Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar has declined an offer by Madrid to grant her refugee...

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RIGHTS-CHAGOS: 'My Navel is Buried There'

PORT-LOUIS, Nov 21 (IPS) - "We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was...

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World › Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees

Sunday 22nd November, 02:33 AM JST MANIK FARM, Sri LankaSri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they’ve been detained since the country’s...

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Canada to review soldier's asylum

Ottawa - A Canadian court on Friday ordered the country's refugee board to review the rejected asylum application of a lesbian US soldier who claimed her sexual orientation had prompted death threats. Private Bethany Smith, 21,...

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Chidambaram meets Tripura chief minister, discusses refugee repatriation

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram met Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in New Delhi Saturday and discussed ways to resolve the 12-year-old deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees to Mizoram following the...

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Rs750m deposited in fund for IDPs: Shahbaz

Sunday, November 22, 2009 Our correspondent LAHORE: Representative of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Pakistan Mengesha Kabede called on Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Saturday....

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Sri Lanka to free war-displaced refugees!

Updated on Saturday, November 21, 2009, 14:41 IST Tags:Sri Lanka, displaced refugees Vavuniya (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka said on Saturday it plans to let war-displaced civilians move freely in and out of internment camps ahead of...

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Rs 750m deposited for IDPs: Shahbaz

Sunday, November 22, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE REPRESENTATIVE of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Pakistan Mengesha Kabede called on Chief Minister Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Saturday....

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Thailand must end detention of Hmong: rights group (AFP)

AFP - A leading rights group Saturday called on the Thai government to allow 158 Lao Hmong refugees, who have been detained for three years pending deportation, to be resettled in four western countries.

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