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• BURNING DREAM

  Published: September 8, 2007, 7:17 pm

  Tags: Baghdad Burning, Refugee, War, Syria, Iraq, Thoth

  (A Poetic Justice Photomontage)Baghdad Burning... I'll meet you 'round the bend my friend, where hearts can heal and souls can mend......The first minutes after passing the border were overwhelming. Overwhelming relief and overwhelming sadness How is it that only a stretch of several kilometers and maybe twenty minutes, so firmly segregates

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• News Bulletins (8/16/07)

  Published: August 16, 2007, 2:39 pm

  Tags: Judea, Samaria, News, Refugee, Arab, Israel, Homesh

  to Hold Hearing on Jewish Refugees from Arab States(IsraelNN.com) The Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) of the US legislature is set to hold a first-of-its-kind hearing next week on the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were forced to flee their homes in Arab countries as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict.The Race to Rebuild Homesh

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• Children's drawings describing Darfur atrocities

  Published: September 24, 2007, 3:53 am

  Tags: Mer Ay, Sudan, Humanitarian Impacts, Darfur, Human Rights Watch, Chad, Refugee, Drawings, Children, Rape

  from children who were refugees in camps along the Chad-Darfur border.These pictures date from February 2005, when two Human Rights Watch researchers, Dr. Annie Sparrow and Olivier Bercault, visited refugee camps in Chad in order to assess issues of insecurity and sexual violence.The two researchers gave paper and crayons to children so

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• Angelina Jolie's commitment to educate 1 million children

  Published: September 29, 2007, 5:01 am

  Tags: Angelina Jolie, Bill Clinton, Celebrity, Charity, Children, Conflict Affected Children, Darfur, Genocide, Jolie, Jolie Education, Philanthropy, Refugee Children, School, Slick Willie, The Education Partnership For Children Of Conflict, Theeducationpartnershipforchildren

  quality. 200,000 Iraqi refugee children will be assisted and more than 300,000 children affected by the Darfur genocide will be aided.Wow. I am way impressed with what this woman is doing with her life. Her compassion and willingness to give of herself is to be admired. And old Slick Willie isn't doing too bad himself.Read

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• Quote of the Day: Think Mogadishu

  Published: October 6, 2007, 6:26 pm

  Tags: Displacement, Sunni, Failed State, Civil War, Refugee, Occupation, Shia, Iraq

  in flight: the Iraqi refugee crisis Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children: Iraq Refugee Women and Youth in Jordan: Reproductive Health Findings, (PDF); also see Iraqi Refugee Women and Girls in Jordan: Desperate and Alone Refugees International: Iraq: The World’s Fastest Growing Refugee Crisis Elsewhere:

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• New Burmese Refugee Group Finds a Home In Md. Suburbs

  Published: October 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: New, Burmese, Refugee, Group, Finds, Home, Suburbs, Myanmar, Malaysia, United States, India, Toyota Corolla, Maryland, Office Depot Inc, The Home Depot Inc, Frederick Maryland, Gaithersburg, Rockville, Silver Spring, Yangon, Bangladesh, Howard County, Thailand, U S Depart

  As the military rulers of Burma yesterday rejected international criticism of their brutal suppression of pro-democracy protesters last month, those who fled the repressive regime to come to the Washington region continued to fear for the safety of those left behind.

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• This Day In America October 17

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Mortgage News, Mortgage News, Capone, Norm, Macdonald, Measuring, Knievel, Refugee, Animator, Wendt

  in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany. On Today's date in 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 63 people and causing $6 billion in damage. Today Daredevil Evel Knievel is 69. Today Actor George Wendt is 59. Norm!! Today Animator Mike Judge is 45. Today Actor-comedian Norm

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• Children ask Yudhoyono to sing at Mt. Kelud refugee camp

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:10 am

  Tags: Kediri, Bambang, Bergembira, Camp, Children, East, Environment, Eruption, Indonesia, Java, Kelud, President, Refugee, Sing, Sorak Sorak, Susilo, Yudhoyono

  "Some children at the refugee camp also asked the president to sing national anthem 'Indon read more

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• Irish troops to face instability in Chad

  Published: November 29, 2007, 1:13 pm

  Tags: Chad, Sudan, Instability, Irish, Koukou, Politics, Refugee, Troops

  "Irish forces will be in Chad in a few weeks, as part of a larger EU force to help secure refugee camps. The troops will be in the area of Koukou on the tense eastern border with Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, where the situation is increasingly unstable. Medecins Sans...read more

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• Gay refugees seek legal clarity

  Published: December 5, 2007, 7:29 pm

  Tags: Gay, Jordan, Vancouver, Homophobic, Homosexuality, Lesbian, Life, Refugee

  As a gay teenager in Jordan, Ghassan Shanti faced constant intimidation, physical abuse and was held in police custody twice. The 22-year-old came to Vancouver a year ago on a student visa and is now seeking refugee...read more

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• Gorontalo floods force thousands of people to evacuate

  Published: December 18, 2007, 10:40 pm

  Tags: Gorontalo, Environment, Evacuate, Flood, Instant, People, Rains, Refugee, Shelters, Thousands

  "Official at flood mitigation post command said that as of Tuesday morning, around 2,015 people had been evacuated to a number of safer locations.The official said that starting from 2 a.m. on Tuesday, flood waters had swept through ten sub-districts, namely Heledulaa...read more

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• Search Engine Optimization Journal's Top 20 SEO Blog List

  Published: December 19, 2007, 12:40 pm

  Tags: Seo, Seo Tools, Top Seo List, Ask The Seo Guru, Graywolf S Seo Blog, Marketing Pilgrim, Matt Cutts, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Watch Blog, Seo Refugee, Seo Scoop

  thorough blog post. 7. SEO Refugee Blog URL: http://www.seorefugee.com A funny and interesting approach at an SEO blog, SEORefugee provides comical cartoons and other interesting articles that you are sure to enjoy reading. 8. Search Engine Roundtable Blog URL: http://www.seroundtable.com Six well rounded individuals write in this popular

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• Asylum Program Falls Short For Iraqis Aiding U.S. Forces

  Published: January 22, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Asylum, Program, Falls, Short, For, Iraqis, Aiding, U S, Forces, Denmark, Iraq, United States, Thomas Bille Winkel, Edward M Kennedy, Peter Fish, U S Department Of State, Los Angeles Times, Anders Rasmussen, Basra, Danish Ministry Of Refugee Immigration And Integration Affa

  Thousands of Iraqi translators have assisted U.S. forces since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, risking their lives and leaving their families vulnerable to retaliation from insurgents who see them as accomplices of American troops.

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• Iraq's Slow Refugee Funding Has Ripple Effect

  Published: May 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Iraq S, Slow, Refugee, Funding, Has, Ripple, Effect, United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, Nouri Al Maliki, Syria, Iraq, U S Department Of State, Baghdad, James B Foley, Michelle Gabaudan, William Delahunt, United States, Edward M Kennedy, Kristele Younes, Ryan Cro

  Despite U.S. pressure over the past month, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has yet to provide significant financial support for the nearly 2 million Iraqi refugees in Syria and Lebanon, according to administration and congressional sources, even as the United Nations has told donors that it may...

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• Paddington Bear celebrates Fifty years

  Published: May 30, 2008, 12:47 pm

  Tags: Celebrities, Homes, London, News, Bear, Paddington Bear, Refugee

  bear is based on real refugees, Mr Bond said: I saw those cinema newsreels of refugees pushing all their belongings across the countryside. People uprooted in mid-life. I see it again in Darfur the worst thing is there is nowhere to escape to. That was the first image I had of Paddington, left alone with all his belongings in a

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