refugees

Palestinians remember 1948

by News Sources 07.14.2011
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The redemptive xenophobia sweeping across Israel

by News Sources 12.26.2010

Daniel Blatman writes: Sebastian Haffner was a young lawyer in Germany in 1932. As a non-Jew, Haffner could have continued to further his career in the civil service. In describing the atmosphere in his country before the takeover by the Nazi dictatorship, he wrote that “the game dragged on tedious and gloomy, without high spots, [...]

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Helping the Haitians over there so that we don’t have to help them here

by Paul Woodward 01.22.2010

Haiti relocating homeless, port repairs needed AP, January 22, 2010 Haitians are fleeing their quake-ravaged capital by the hundreds of thousands, aid officials said Friday, as their government promised to help nearly a half-million more move from squalid camps on curbsides and vacant lots into safer, cleaner tent cities. Aid officials said some 200,000 people [...]

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NEWS & EDITOR’S COMMENT: In Iraq, division will undermine reconciliation

by Paul Woodward 12.20.2007

Editor’s Comment — The good news coming out of Iraq is that most Iraqis see an end to the U.S. occupation as being the key to national reconciliation. The bad news is that the damage done to Iraq’s social frabric over the last five years is going to be extremely difficult to repair. The problem [...]

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NEWS: Syria shuts main exit from war for Iraqis

by Paul Woodward 10.21.2007

Syria shuts main exit from war for Iraqis By Thanassis Cambanis, New York Times, October 21, 2007 Long the only welcoming country in the region for Iraqi refugees, Syria has closed its borders to all but a small group of Iraqis and imposed new visa rules that will legally require the 1.5 million Iraqis currently [...]

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NEWS: Iraqi refugees trapped; US embassy delayed indefinitely

by Paul Woodward 10.10.2007

Doors closing on Iraqi displaced BBC News, October 10, 2007 An increasing number of Iraqi provinces are refusing entry to refugees fleeing violence in other parts of the country, the UN refugee agency has warned. The head of the UNHCR Iraq Support Unit told the BBC up to 11 governors were restricting access because they [...]

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OPINION: America’s moral bankruptcy

by Paul Woodward 09.27.2007

Refugees? What refugees? By Roger Cohen, New York Times, September 27, 2007 In January, Sweden admitted 1,500 Iraqis, compared to 15 that entered the United States. In April, the respective numbers were 1,421 and 1; in May, 1,367 and 1; and in August 1,469 and 529. True, the Iraqis in Sweden are asylum-seekers, whereas those [...]

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FEATURE: Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis

by Paul Woodward 09.26.2007

No going back By Nir Rosen, Boston Review, September/October, 2007 The international response to the refugee crisis was extremely weak until recently, and it’s not at all clear that it is sufficient now. In June the International Organization for Migration, one of the main American NGOs, issued an appeal for $85 million over two years, [...]

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