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Indonesia Rescues 200 Boat People Thais 'Left to Die'

Refugees say Thai military towed them to sea, set them adrift

Feb 3, 09 8:19 AM CST
(Newser) - The Indonesian navy has rescued 200 more Burmese refugees who say the Thai military abandoned them to die at sea three weeks ago, the Daily Telegraph reports. The refugees, from Burma's persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority, say their motorless wooden boat was part of a flotilla of nine, containing more than... More »

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Indonesia • Thailand • refugee • Myanmar • Burma • Aceh

Groups Say Thailand Sends Refugees to Sea

Hundreds missing
after being left with
little food or water

Jan 24, 09 10:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Human rights groups say the Thai military is effectively sentencing refugees to death by herding them out to sea on boats with little food or water. Hundreds of Muslim refugees from Burma are missing, they say. Last month, 1,000 were detained on a remote island, then towed to sea... More »

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Thailand • refugee • Myanmar • Burma

(Newser) - It's no coincidence that 15% of recent Somali refugees to the US share a birthday today. Aid workers often assign Jan. 1 when a birth date is unavailable, as is often the case in war-ravaged and disaster-ridden countries or cultures that don't celebrate birthdays. American rituals seem especially peculiar to... More »

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Somalia • United States • birthday • refugee • birthday party • humanitarian workers • New Year

 UK Deporting HIV Patients 
 to 'Death Sentence' 

Critics say British policy hypocritical

Dec 1, 08 4:58 AM CST
(Newser) - An African policy group is accusing the UK of deporting immigrants who were being treated for HIV to almost certain death in places where they will be unable to acquire drugs needed to survive. Advocates call the move hypocritical since Britain is a vocal backer of an international declaration calling... More »

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AIDS • HIV • universal health care • deportation • medical treatment • immigrant • refugee • Britain • World AIDS Day

 Anarchy Rules 
 Desperate Congo 

In country's east, rebels and army abandon citizens

Nov 19, 08 5:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Bewildered residents in eastern Congo talk of the "front line" separating rebel territory from areas controlled by the army. But no such line exists—only a jumble of unstable, chaotic territories with no checkpoints or fortifications, reports the New York Times. While a ceasefire between the two sides seems... More »

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refugee camp • Democratic Republic of Congo • refugee • Congo • Laurent Nkunda

 Congo's Crisis 
 at Breaking Point 

EU, African Union scramble to broker peace deal as Nkunda attacks

Nov 3, 08 7:27 AM CST
(Newser) - European and African officials held crisis talks last night to avert a complete meltdown in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the civil war risks degenerating into genocide. The diplomatic push came as Laurent Nkunda, the Tutsi general, led 10,000 rebels into battle in a province bordering Rwanda, which... More »

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David Miliband • civil war • Democratic Republic of Congo • humanitarian crisis • refugee • Rwanda • Tutsi • Laurent Nkunda

US Appeals Ruling to Free Chinese From Gitmo

US appeal of ruling strands 17, held since 2001 without charge

Nov 1, 08 4:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - 17 Chinese prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay will stay there indefinitely pending an appeal of a judge’s decision that they be released, the Guardian reports. “They were on freedom's doorstep," their frustrated lawyer said. “The plane was at Gitmo.” Refugee and religious organizations in the... More »

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China • Department of Justice • appeal • Guantanamo Bay • refugee • federal judges • terror suspects • Uighurs

Jolie Returns, Moved, From Afghanistan Trip

Goodwill ambassador visited refugees, urges international aid

Oct 24, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Angelina Jolie made a trip to Afghanistan last week in her role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, spending two days among the country's returning refugees. The actress visited sites where thousands of Afghans live in makeshift housing and struggle to find work, problems that typify the stress the... More »

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Afghanistan • United Nations • Angelina Jolie • refugee • UN High Commissioner for Refugees • humanitarian aid

 Red Cross: 
 Pakistan Now a War Zone 

Tribal areas become war zone as government steps up assault on militants

Oct 3, 08 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pakistan's escalating confrontation with the Taliban has plunged the country into full-scale war, the New York Times reports. A quarter of a million people have fled the fighting as the Pakistani army attacks the militants in tribal areas on at least three fronts, and 20,000 have flooded in desperation... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • refugee • Pakistan militants • tribal areas • al-Qaeda • Swat Valley • North West Frontier Province

 Galveston Resort 
 Turns Into Storm Central 

500 to 800 souls took refuge at a convention center in Galveston during Ike's assault

Sep 13, 08 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A motley crew rode out Hurricane Ike at Galveston’s San Luis Resort, Spa, & Conference Center, Joel Achenbach writes for the Washington Post. Up to 800 people were there, among them the mayor, cops and firefighters, along with storm chasers and drenched refugees holed up as the wind... More »

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Texas • shelter • flooding • evacuation • refugee • Galveston • Hurricane Ike

Hijacked Sudan Airliner on the Ground in Libya

Former Darfur rebels among 102 still aboard as talks continue

Aug 26, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Sudanese flight hijacked today after lifting off from a Darfur airport has landed in Libya, the AFP reports. Authorities are still negotiating with hijackers; three former members of a rebel group are said to be among 102 on board. Yesterday, the UN reported 33 dead after a clash between... More »

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Darfur • Sudan • Libya • refugee • rebels • plane hijacking

 Africa Braces for
 Zimbabwe Refugees 

With Mugabe looking ready to hold on to power at all costs, exodus is expected

Jun 21, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Zimbabwe's neighbors are preparing for a flood of refugees after next week's election, the London Times reports. About 3 million have already fled Robert Mugabe's regime to South Africa, Zambia, and Botswana. As it becomes increasingly clear that Mugabe will not give up power even if he loses the election,... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • Morgan Tsvangirai • Mozambique • South Africa • Zambia • refugee • Botswana • Movement for Democratic Change • Zimbabwe elections • Zanu-PF

 Google Tracking Refugees 

UN info on displaced peoples now available through Earth mapping feature

Apr 8, 08 5:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new feature allows Google Earth users to take a tour of the world’s refugee hotspots, with images of camps supplemented by information from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the AP reports. The search titan has greatly improved the available resolution in its satellite photos of refugee areas—... More »

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United Nations • Google • Darfur • Chad • Google Earth • refugee camp • Crisis in Darfur • refugee • UN High Commissioner for Refugees • humanitarian aid

US Set to Deliver $150M in Aid
to Palestinians

First installment of $550M for strapped Palestinian Authority

Mar 19, 08 6:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US promised today to transfer $150 million in aid to the economically ailing Palestinian Authority, marking the first installment of $550 million the US pledged at a donors' conference in December, Reuters reports. The contribution will be the largest single donation since the Authority was launched in 1994, Prime... More »

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Palestinian Authority • West Bank • Salam Fayyad • refugee • United Nations Relief and Works Agency

US to Admit More Iraqi Refugees

Speeds up glacial pace of resettlement

Feb 5, 08 3:47 AM CST
(Newser) - The State Department plans to admit 12,000 Iraqi refugees into the US by September, despite resettling only 375 so far this year, CNN reports. Ambassador James Foley, charged with the task of accelerating resettlement, vowed to reporters that the pace will pick up in the coming months. The US... More »

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Iraq • Jordan • Syria • State Department • Department of Homeland Security • refugee • Iraqi refugees • UN High Commissioner for Refugees • Refugees International

Iraq Invites Refugees Home, but Home Is Gone

350K displaced in Iraq; US military begs Baghdad to build new housing

Dec 16, 07 5:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Baghdad shocked Washington and the UN last month by inviting home 1.4 million refugees from Syria, the Washington Post reports. The UN warned against it, saying exiles would face poverty, but Iraq started a bus line to transport them back. Many found their homes looted and neighborhoods redrawn along... More »

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Iraq • Syria • Baghdad • David Petraeus • US military • refugee • Iraqi refugees

Darfur's Displaced
Battle Hunger, Disease, Raids

Sudan's 2.5M refugees struggle to survive

Dec 8, 07 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - "It is unsafe for me to go back home and it's not safe here," a resident of Abu Chok, a refugee camp in Darfur currently home to 54,000, tells the Guardian. Residents endure endemic malnutrition, malaria, and typhoid in hopes of security—the camp is 4 miles... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • malaria • refugee camp • refugee • Khartoum • Janjaweed • malnutrition

Thousands Returning to Safer Baghdad

Driven by better
security and lack of funds to stay in Syria  

Nov 21, 07 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Iraqi refugees are returning to Baghdad by the thousands, convinced that security has dramatically improved, reports the Times of London. The Iraqi embassy in Damascus has even organized a secure convoy to escort Iraqis home next Monday and has posted signs offering free bus and train rides home. “There... More »

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Iraq • Syria • security • refugee • Iraqi refugees

Thousands Flee Congo Fighting

Civilians in the middle as local militias clash with rebel general

Oct 21, 07 5:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands of refugees are fleeing a new outbreak of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Renewed fighting has erupted between dissident Gen. Laurent Nkuda and local militias, as well as between Nkuda and regular government forces, following Nkuda's refusal to disarm his troops and reintegrate into the army.... More »

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refugee camp • Democratic Republic of Congo • refugee • outbreak • Kivu • General Nkuda

Israel Welcomes
500 Darfur Refugees

All others
will be expelled

Sep 24, 07 3:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel has agreed to allow 498 refugees who fled Darfur through Egypt to remain in the country, although their legal status remains undecided. Africans from other parts of the continent and new arrivals from Darfur, however, will be expelled. Egypt has agreed to accept refugees who are returned after trying... More »

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Israel • Africa • Darfur • Sudan • Egypt • Crisis in Darfur • Darfuris • asylum • refugee

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