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Christians back to Mosul as security mended

Mosul :: Iraq | 11 days ago

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U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that many Iraqi Christian families who fled Mosul last month after violence acts against them have returned home. Some 2,275 families, i.e. the half of this town’s Christian citizens, fled Mosul for...

Myanmar refugees sold off at M’sian border, MP claims

Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | 18 days ago

An opposition MP highlighted the plight of Myanmar refugees in Malaysia, claiming that some of them were "sold off" at Malaysia-Thai border by immigration officers to human traffickers during deportation. Klang), said that based on those who have come...

El-Eissawi meets assistant commissioner of refugees’ affairs (Voices of Iraq)

Baghdad :: Iraq | 25 days ago

Iraqi Deputy Premier Rafeaa al-Eissawi on Monday discussed with assistant commissioner of the refugees’ affairs the condition of the Iraqi refugees abroad and facilitate their return to the country, al-Eissawi’s office said in a statement. “Al-Eissawi...

UNAMID falls behind Darfur deployment

Khartoum :: Sudan | 25 days ago

45 GMT The UN backtracks on plans to deploy 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur by 2009 but expects the region to see 3,600 more troops before January...United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur) has a mandate for 26,000 troops and police but currently...

Iraq flies home 106 refugees from Jordan

Amman :: Jordan | 27 days ago

More than 100 Iraqi refugees in Jordan have returned home on the first free plane trip from Amman organized by their country, Iraq's ambassador to the kingdom said on Sunday. "An Iraqi Airways plane flew from Amman to Baghdad on Saturday carrying 106...

Catholics see increase in Iraqi refugees

Washington :: DC :: USA | 29 days ago

The Catholic Church in the United States said it saw a 31 percent increase in the number of resettlements, with a portion of those coming from Iraq. In 2008 the church said it resettled nearly 18,000 refugees through its migration services in the U.S.

Iraq tops list of asylum seekers

Mosul :: Iraq | about 1 month ago

The U.N. refugee agency said that despite a decline in the number of asylum-seekers from Iraq, the country continues to top the list...High Commissioner for Refugees said in its most recent report that the number of asylum-seekers from Iraq dropped 18...

Siniora complains to UN chief over Israeli incursions

Beirut :: Lebanon | about 1 month ago

Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has complained to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that Israel is constantly violating the terms of the UN resolution that ended the 2006 war. Siniora's office announced on Saturday that the prime minister has sent two letters...

Lecture series offered

Lancaster :: CA :: USA | about 1 month ago

This will be a two-part lecture series, "Repaying the Refugee Debt," at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1699 Iowa St. John Freivalds and his family arrived in the U.S. from Austria as Latvian refugees in 1950. He will share...

UN-Iraq dispute over refugees returning home

Baghdad :: Iraq | about 1 month ago

While the UN report said that the number of returning refugees is less than the number of those departing, Major General Abdul Karim Khalaf, director of the operations at the Interior Ministry, denied this. Khalaf told Gulf News the UN's figures were...

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