World refugee population certain to rise
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The number of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since 2002 and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the world, the U.N. refugee chief said.
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Many advanced countries face collapsing populations. Making it easier for women to work may be the best way to increase birthrates.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio  - Dr. Raad Sameer's three children were very excited -- Monday was to be their first day of school in America. A month after landing in the U.S. heartland, the Iraqi refugees were ready to pursue their dream.
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The population of the UK will increase by 4.4 million over the next nine years, according to new estimates.
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In Colombia and across the world, the United Nations says it is seeing more internally displaced people, who flee their homes but not their countries.
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While reproductive planning and women&#39;s equality have improved substantially over the past decade, says a United Nations report, world population will increase from 6.4 billion today to 8.9 billion by 2050, with the 50 poorest countries tripling in
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GENEVA--The death toll in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region could rise sixfold by the end of the year--hitting 300,000--because of worsening food shortages among refugees, a senior US aid official said yesterday.
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Some 12,000 Iraqi refugees will be admitted to the United States over the next year as efforts to end long delays processing referrals from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees begin to take effect, government officials told reporters this morning.
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The United States will accelerate the resettlement of about 7,000 Iraqis referred by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and will contribute $18 million to the agency's appeal for Iraq, about one-third of the total, Undersecretary of State Paula J. Dobriansky said Wednesday.
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The World Health Organization says that up to 70,000 refugees have died in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region since March 1, 2004 due to various causes, including diseases and malnutrition.
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With Maoist attacks on the rise in Nepal, authorities apprehend large-scale displacement of people. In fact, a good indicator of this âflight of passageâ is a newspaper report on Iraq-bound Nepalese that
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Nearly 530 Iraqi refugees were admitted to the United States last month, a huge bump from July but still far short of the number needed to fulfill the Bush administration's pledge to accept 2,000 by the end of September.
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Starvation, injury and disease are pushing massive numbers of refugees in tsunami-devastated Aceh closer to death "every minute", the United Nations warned as the number of Indonesians confirmed killed in the disaster climbed towards 100,000.
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A group of about 260,000 Indochinese  refugees who have been living in China for quarter of a century  may finally get full Chinese citizenship, the United Nations  said on Friday.
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The Bush administration plans to allow about 7,000 Iraqi refugees into the country over the next year, compared with 463 allowed in since the war began.
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The United States aims to accept about 7,000 Iraqi refugees by the end of the year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday as the State Department sought to blunt criticism that it took in only 202 last year.
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Aid workers in eastern Chad are reporting a sharp increase in the number of refugees fleeing the Darfur region of western Sudan, despite the Sudanese government&#39;s insistence that it is taking steps to restore security.