World 'forgets' internal refugees
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A UN report urges better protection for millions of internally displaced people - refugees in all but name.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 4 -- Nearly 50,000 Iraqi refugees returned home from Syria in the final 3 1/2 months of 2007, the latest sign of diminishing violence in this war-pocked country, according to new data from relief workers.
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SYDNEY - Normally exuberant New Year celebrations were tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asiaâs tsunami as several major cities cancelled parties and Australia led a global minute of silence.
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London, Nov. 30 (NNN) : The world has failed to help survivors of the Bhopal gas leak in India 20 years ago or to punish the guilty, Amnesty International has said.
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WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled their homeland are likely to seek refugee status in the United States, humanitarian groups said, putting intense pressure on the Bush administration to reexamine a policy that authorizes only 500 Iraqis to be resettled here next year.
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Fighting between NATO-led forces and  insurgents across southern Afghanistan has displaced an  estimated 80,000 to 90,000 people over the past few months, the  U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Wednesday.
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The world has shown "callous disregard" for the 70,000 killed in Sudan's Darfur conflict, a human rights group says.
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Politicians who argue so vehemently that we remember history seem to have forgotten the Armenian Genocide following World War I, the Holocaust of World War II and the brutal ethnic cleansings in Cambodia, Serbia and Rwanda.
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LHOK NGA, Indonesia  - Nur Eni misses her home.  She hates the refugee camp where she lives with her husband and  three children who survived last month's massive tsunami in  Indonesia's Aceh province.
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Violence in Iraq and instability in Lebanon are driving hundreds of thousands of people abroad in an upheaval not matched in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinian refugees when Israel was created in 1948.
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Seoul has passed controversial new measures intended to slow the flow of asylum seekers.
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Thousands of Iraqi refugees who fled last year's violence are returning, but many more are staying away. Here are four reasons why it's too early to proclaim the end of the civil war
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NAIROBI, 12 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday it was temporarily withdrawing some international staff from South Darfur in western Sudan because authorities there had prevented the staff from
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After a false warning of new tsunamis, hundreds of victims of last Sunday's huge waves abandoned government refugee camps near the shore.
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The U.S. State Department has ruled out, for now, the adoption of children from countries devastated by the tsunami disaster.
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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Thursday it was temporarily withdrawing some international staff from South Darfur in western Sudan because authorities there had prevented the staff from performing their duties.
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There is no room for thousands of new war-displaced in crammed refugee camps in Sri Lanka's east, so many are sheltering under trees or in schools and churches, aid workers said on Tuesday.