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Special office in Kenyan refugee camp helps victims of sexual violence
In Hagadera, one of three sprawling refugee camps in north-west Kenya's Dadaab region, there's a group of women who call themselves "survivors." They are victims of sexual violence, a scourge which reaches into the overcrowded camps, home to some 270,000...
Tags: UNHCR, Refugee camp, sexual violence, refugee camps, Violence against women, Gender studies, Sexual assault
UN slams Sri Lanka over internment camps
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 12 days ago
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People are still not given free access to leave these camps on their own free will," UN humanitarian chief John Holmes told Agence France-Presse on Thursday, after a visit to the camps. Holmes, who ended a three-day visit on Thursday, said some 130,000...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonseka, humanitarian affairs, Colombo, Military of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, D. A. Rajapaksa, Chief of the Defence Staff, War Conflict, Sinhalese people, Sri Lankan people, Year of birth missing, Politics, Sri Lankan Civil War, Refugee camps, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Tamil Eelam, Forced migration, Internally displaced person, Persecution, Provinces of Sri Lanka, Tamil people, Ethnic groups in Sri Lanka, Dravidian peoples, Politics of Sri Lanka, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, Demining, Rohitha Bogollagama, Tamil diaspora, Vavuniya District, Sri Lankan Tamil people, Jaffna
Taking Advantage: Refugees' Vulnerability to Military Recruitment
Double jeopardy. CNN is reporting that in Kenya's refugee camps, which hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees have made their "temporary" homes, Somali military recruiters are enticing refugee men and boys to join their ranks. Human Rights...
UNIFIL plotters arrested near Tyre
Beirut :: Lebanon | 2 months ago
Credibility Lebanese troops have arrested five members of Al-Qaeda inspired Fatah al-Islam militant group in the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Shamali, near the southern port city of Tyre. The sources said the arrests were based on information gathered by Lebanese...
Tags: Fatah al-Islam, refugee camps, Lebanon, Beirut
UN worker shot dead in Pakistan
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
Credibility The man, a Pakistani, died in hospital after the shooting at the Katcha Garhi camp near Peshawar, the UN said. Police say a second UN official was also killed and another injured when four armed men tried to abduct them. More than 200,000 people have...
Tags: Pakistan, refugee camps, U.N., Peshawar, camps near, worker shot
Jihadists rebuild and eye Israel
Beirut :: Lebanon | 5 months ago
Credibility The reported return of a veteran Palestinian bomb maker to his old stomping grounds in the port city of Tripoli in north Lebanon is ringing alarm bells because there are fears that he will link up with a jihadist group that is reforming after being battered...
Tags: Ain al-Hilweh, north Lebanon, refugee camps, Palestinian Fatah
Tensions rise in Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon
Beirut :: Lebanon | 8 months ago
Credibility At dawn Tuesday a bomb exploded near the house of Fatah member Monther Bhaiji, in the Ain el-Hilweh camp, east of the southern port of Sidon, but no casualties were reported. Earlier, a stun grenade was thrown by unidentified people inside the Rashidiyeh...
Medhat killing highlights Palestinian rifts
Beirut :: Lebanon | 8 months ago
Credibility March 25, 2009 The killing of a top PLO official in Lebanon further destabilizes an already explosive situation in the country's refugee camps and undermines the authority of the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement, analysts say. "Kamal Medhat's assassination...
Tags: Palestinian Fatah, Kamal Medhat, Lebanon, refugee camps, palestinian factions, PLO
Senior Fateh leader assassinated in Lebanon
Beirut :: Lebanon | 8 months ago
Credibility Lieutenant Kamal Midhat, assistant to the representative of the PLO in Lebanon, and senior Fateh leader, was killed as well as four other residents where in a car when the explosion took place. The explosion was caused by a bomb hidden under the cover...
Tags: Lebanon Press, Kamal Medhatâ, refugee camps, Abbas Zaki, Palestinian Authority, Samir Geagea, Fatah Intelligence, Abass Zaki, PLO, intelligence chief
Senior Fatah official killed in south Lebanon
Beirut :: Lebanon | 8 months ago
Credibility Witnesses said pieces of torn flesh were scattered near the bombing site, as ambulances and civil defense rushed to evacuate the victims. The Mieh Mieh camp and the nearby Ein el-Hilweh camp are mainly controlled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas'...
Tags: Lebanon Abbas Zaki, Lebanon Sultan Abu al-Aynayn, South Lebanon, Palestinian Fatah, Abbas Zakiâ, Kamal Medhat, refugee camps, Palestinian Liberation Organization, wa kills, car bomb
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