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Critics say the bill would have made it much tougher for genuine refugees to be able to settle in Australia.

Of those trying to get into Italy across the Mediterranean, a high proportion were always political refugees.

Refugees descended on the city, its population swelling to a million in less than a year.

"When people think of refugees and stateless people they don't think of Western, educated professionals with an office job, " he said.

A spokesman for the UN high commissioner for refugees said the fighting had led to huge displacement in the area.

The intractable problems at the heart of their conflict can be summed up in four words: borders, settlers, refugees, Jerusalem.

Another flow of environmental refugees comes from Haiti, where the land is denuded of vegetation and the soil os washing into the sea.

Q: Why do shithead South African citizens take it out on poor innocent Zimbabwean refugees?

Some of the refugees say that they have ventured north to check on their houses but did not feel safe enough to stay.

And while the government has indicated it is ready to open an existing site to new refugees, such a move is unlikely to occur any time soon.

Even if the Jewish refugees through the border checkpoints , Switzerland Mainland officials have the right to ask to check their passports.

Another theory floating around was that Rwandan Hutu extremists in the camps were trying to intimidate other refugees.

Laurel Conran started classes at the company to help refugees from the country also known as Myanmar learn English.

At least one person in Lebanon was killed by an unexploded ordnance as refugees began returning to their home.

A spokeswoman said the refugees had been walking for days to escape a situation they feared could explode into violence.

As part of his prepared remarks, Rai also spoke strongly for Palestinian refugees and said Israel needs to withdraw from parts of Lebanon.

Tens of thousands of refugees had been killed in his journey west; in that sense Kabila was no better than his predecessor.

It had begun to make special provision for refugees.

Few refugees in the camps bothered to register for a vote, fearing that this would prejudice their right to return to their real homes.

Their refugees' stories had to be translated from Arabic to French to English, which took a great deal of time.

Up to a million refugees left the communist North Vietnam during Operation Passage to Freedom after the country was partitioned.

Within a year, the organization had moved most of the refugees out of crisis.

Squeezing through a cave, he found a village, the residents of which were descendants of refugees from the Qin Dynasty.

The representative said he was not aware of any contingency planning to deal with large numbers of refugees.

Once in an urban environment, the refugees are unable to count on the security that the United Nations or other NGO can provide.

Another flow of environmental refugees comes from Haiti, where the land is denuded of vegetation and the soil is washing into the sea.

If the cute one starts up a conversation with you and asks you about the award or the refugees, well, you're on your own.

The two reporters were in the border area with a male cameraman and their guide as part of a reporting assignment on North Korean refugees.

He said he was authorizing the U. S. Agency for International Development to charter civilian aircraft to help evacuate refugees.

Because those forts weren't insulated from the winter weather, he said it would be necessary to move the refugees.

as israel pulls more of its troops out of southern lebanon , refugees continue to stream home to see what ' s left.

She said the limited waivers meant that the resettlement of many refugees had been indefinitely delayed.

Then, he plans to assist others just as he was aided - helping out-of-work refugees open their own shops and create their own jobs.

Widely touted forecasts such as for 200m climate refugees in the next few decades seem to have been plucked from the air.

Neighboring Suriname declared itself ready to welcome refugees, and moved part of its small army close to the disputed border.

Beijing, fearing destabilization of the region and a flood of refugees from the North if order breaks down, may not be so forceful.

Redmond says the UNHCR is going to have to set up new sites to accommodate the growing number of refugees and displaced people.

Witnesses said the bomb hit the refugees as they were sheltering under trees and bushes.

In April four people drowned after Turkish police allegedly pushed a group of refugees into a river and made them swim back towards Iraq.

He could also chuck out a few of the international NGOs which provide a lifeline to the refugees in Darfur.

He said Israel will not negotiate with the Palestinian government supported by Hamas or House of Palestinian refugees.

TV reporter is working for a few days in a border town, where a lot of refugees from Albania, Turkey and Kurdistan are packed in.

It is even better if you donate the money for far more important causes such as helping a poor student, or to help refugees.

There continued to be reports of severe punishment of some repatriated refugees and their family members.

They say that that thousands of other refugees who have fled the war in Iraq also deserve to be offered sanctuary.

China views many as economic refugees and often returns them to the North, where they face harsh treatment for trying to defect.

The two refugees wore in rags, had sunken eyes and scores all over their arms and legs.

None of that is much comfort for the Georgian leadership, which is coping with tens of thousands of refugees and a nose-diving economy.

He said despite the tremendous efforts of those two countries , the situation for the refugees is deplorable .

And again I felt the busy atmosphere had stepped down after refugees moved at a new residence and began to live regularly.

However, there has been a slight dip in the total number of refugees worldwide on 2009 levels.

Colonial ghosts: Refugees jump rope in what used to be the British Governor's house.

Muammer Gaddafi's brutality may generate close to a million refugees as well as thousands of deaths.

The United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants says refugees face mistreatment and a lack of assistance in many countries.

Violent clashes a year ago pushed tens of thousands of refugees over the border to the Chinese province of Yunnan.

We went to the camp to ask whether we could visit the refugees. The police told us that we were welcome to visit them during open hours.

As a result, an assortment of refugees and asylum-seekers are deemed terrorists or to have aided terrorist groups.

Trying to stave off that tricky topic, Pug asked, "Sir, why don't we take in a lot more refugees! "

When this was crushed, Jewish refugees fled in all directions. The descendants of those who fled to Europe became known as Ashkenazim.

Yunnan provincial authorities have told the refugees to leave, but have not threatened force or sealed the border, aid groups said.

His wife, Nancy Chu, helped establish the center where refugees learned handicrafts so they could make a living on Indian soil.

We urge all agencies to be aware of this growing situation. We don't want to see another crisis develop over refugees in the north.

Some of this money would help deal with the influx of refugees, and make up for the other economic calamities since the revolution.

Sauerbrey emphasized that there is no cap on the number of Iraqi refugees the United States is willing to resettle.

The UN had been seeking $30m, but has so far received only $7m and will run out of food for fleeing refugees within months.

At least two people have been killed after clashes broke out at a huge camp for Somali refugees in northeastern Kenya.

If fighting were to escalate between the Koreas, Japan would also need to prepare for a potential flood of refugees.

The weakened refugees HAD little resistance to infection of any kind and cholera spread through the camps like wildfire.

Ladies up in here tonight, no fighting. We got the refugees up in here. No fighting, no fighting. -Shakira, Shakira. . .

The weakened refugees had little resistance to infection of any king and cholera spread through the camps like wild fire.

Yong blames Vang Pao and his Hmong supporters in the US for the still-steady flow of refugees out of Laos.

Also, I would think about the orphans and refugees whom we are trying to raise money for with our Train for Humanity efforts.

His tough stand on aborigines recalls the one he took against boat refugees in 2001, helping him win his third election later that year.

However, most countries are trying to take in fewer refugees, not more.

Refugees International says sexual, domestic and gang violence in and around the refugee camps is rising.

Despite the prevailing social pressure not to speak German, many refugees were unable to speak Hebrew.

The 48-page report also reveals that there has been a fall in the number of returning refugees to 197, 600, the lowest in two decades.

We started out with inviting any homeless person but are now limiting our offer to refugees and migrants.

Using the system, refugees were registered and their biographical details entered into a database.

On this observance of World Refugee Day, we must note a troubling trend: the decline in the number of refugees who are able to go home.

And the position of Jewish refugees have not been accepted, restrict on them did not ease.

and for an internal right of return to their ancestors' villages that has nothing to do with the return of refugees from abroad.

We all wish you and your country peace and prosperity and we hope, that the Kosovo refugees may soon be able to return to their home-land.

Bhutan News, a non-partisan blog, informed just days before the coronation that the "refugees are in a state of flux" .

Quintana spoke in Bangkok after spending a week visiting with Burmese refugees in Thailand.

The enemy plane skimmed over the heads of the refugees.

But Israeli leaders say the Jewish state would be doomed if Palestinian refugees are allowed to return.

As the refugees flee the collapsing building, the camera pans up to reveal a towering robot: a Harvester.

You know this is not just in the United States. It's any country that receives refugees.

But after 30 years of almost continuous war, it is still the leading country of origin for refugees, generating 30% of the global total.

Guilt about eating refugees' food was the last emotion I wanted to add to the mix of feelings that often threatened to engulf me.

Reports and studies over the intervening years have spelt out the likely cost of failure: floods, droughts, famines and refugees.

The newly formed emergency government ECT, the European Crisis Team, isn't up to the waves of refugees and the increasing riots anymore.

Very simple things like this that can have such a profound effect on the lives of refugees.

Mister Baligizi is one of several aid workers attempting to help the local people and refugees from the conflict in Darfur.

However, many long-time refugees lament the fact that they cannot leave the camp to try to make a life in Kenya.

He wants Italy to stop bombing Libya to stem the flow of refugees across the Mediterranean.

Engineers could drill for water, but would be under pressure to share it with local populations and with refugees.

In 2012, there was a very serious food crisis, which affected all the Sahel countries, including those where refugees are now hosted.

There was almost nothing I could say during staying with these refugees, I just opened my mouth when some people asked me some questions.

Last night, I was sent to a little grammar school to help a charity organization distribute food to the refugees.

Nanjing was in the shadow of death. So the medical assistance liked a silver line in the dark to the refugees who had to face the massacre.

Asylum benefits used to be limited to people from certain countries, but now it's available to refugees worldwide.

The 7. 9-magnitude quake reduced much of Tokyo to rubble, and as refugees tried to leave, firestorms swept through the city.

Displaced hope: Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees have fled the fighting in Mogadishu since civil war broke out in 1991.

U. N. envoy Angelina Jolie traveled to Turkey's border with Syria on Friday to meet some of the thousands of Syrian refugees.

Telmore Mutinhima, above, one of the thousands of refugees from Zimbabwe living in South Africa, sleeps in a dilapidated tire factory.

Sam Knight traveled to Ghana to see one region from which potential environmental refugees might come.

Continued peace depends on demobilizing rebel armies and finding livelihoods for thousands of refugees and former combatants.

Following the incident, the company's public-policy blog even boasted of Google's commitment to "giving a voice to 'digital refugees. '"

The explosion also posed the first test of the promise by Kevin Rudd, the Labor prime minister, of a more humane approach to refugees.

Their neighbor, Australia, has long shown its intention to turn away the drowning and starving, jailing refugees and sending them back.

In Syria he recognises an amorphous Muslim sense of "grievance" , but not the millions of Iraqi and Palestinian refugees.

Listen to the fugitives and refugees from Babylon declaring in Zion how the Lord our God has taken vengeance, vengeance for his temple .

However, they expect Mon refugees and many Mon living in Thailand will join up to support the ethnic army in the event of war.

Refugees making their way across the nearby border to Turkey spoke similarly of a scorched earth policy.

The United Nations says this community is already one of the poorest among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

The UN refugee agency says it is running out of money to help Southern Sudan refugees go home.

Back in the Jalazone refugee camp the refugees are bitter after 60 years of exile.

Among the two Global Vision runners-up is David Guttenfelter for his National Geographic assignment "Japan's Nuclear Refugees" .

Even now, refugees are recycling their garbage and yet, Gaia levels them!

The company's top executives are all refugees from the country's bureaucratic and underfinanced state research sector.

To help restore conditions following a fire, the UN supplies Palestinian refugees with emergency supplies and assistance.

Give us counsel , render a decision. Make your shadow like night- at high noon . Hide the fugitives, do not betray the refugees .

There was a stream of refugees trudging up the valley towards the border.

And the United Nations persuades Pakistan that the time is not right to send pub- refugees back to Afghanistan. First, the news in detail.

Salah said refugees would return to areas, which are now part of the State of Israel, including Galilee, Haifa, Acre and Jaffa.

There are three million Afghan refugees, one out of three of the total worldwide number.

The WFP's Dieng estimates the number of Eritrean refugees at camps in northern Ethiopia at a few thousand.

"And throughout his life, as a child of refugees, he devoted himself to the plight of people displaced around the world, " Obama said.

That pledge does not seem to extend to refugees.

Along with the LJM, Darfuri civil society, internally displaced persons and refugees "must also have a voice in this process, " he said.

In less than a century the refugees had become fully assimilated into the local community.

It will not apply to refugees and is not intended to affect family reunification at all.

When Constantinople, the last survival of antiquity, was captured by the Turks, Greek refugees in Italy were welcomed by humanists.

The ambitious scholar jumped on a plane and was soon interviewing Afghan refugees and dining with soldiers at the Khyber Pass.

's street residents, says the branding of Mr. Jermyn is 'like designing a line of clothing patterned after Iraqi refugees fleeing the war.

The exodus of refugees fleeing the violence and unrest in Syria has continued to build.

There are a few zombies at the mall when the refugees arrive, staggering about aimlessly in a fashion familiar to Christmas shoppers.

Allegrozzi said that forced recruitment of the refugees by armed groups has also been a problem.

2011-02-17 Despite rushing inflows of Tunisian refugees into Europe, Austria is not ready to receive them.

UNHCR and its partners have struggled to find campsites with sufficient water supply for tens of thousands of refugees in desert regions.

Many leaders in northeastern China are frustrated over the steady flow of refugees escaping poverty.

The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees.

The Refugee Council also features podcasts with women refugees involved with its Vulnerable Women's project, available at this link.

In 2007, the agency considered 80% of the refugees settled by her office to be self-sufficient. This year, so far, it's just 10%.

At least one person in Lebanon was killed by unexploded ordnance as refugees began returning to their home.

Nevertheless, with a great yearning for water, many refugees opened their mouth for the black rain.

The two groups make up 85% of the boat people Australia has accepted as refugees.

They cannot send individuals to a country that has not ratified the torture convention, the convention on refugees.

People stand outside a bakery in one of the popular neighborhoods of Damascus. Many Iraqi refugees have settled there.

The crisis: Most Burmese displaced persons and refugees fled due to fighting between the Burmese military and ethnic militias.

Washington has praised the military operation and is leading the international relief assistance to rehabilitate the internal refugees.

She enthusiastically described her pet video project, to convince refugees in neighboring Tanzania that it was safe to return home.

The last round of Serb aggression had sparked another exodus of refugees and had increased the desire of Kosovar Albanians for independence.

China, Mr Kim's only foreign friend, wants to avoid the collapse of his government and the flood of refugees it might bring.

As a goodwill gesture, Syria has removed restrictions for the entry of Iraqi refugees during the holy month of Ramadan .

The reporters, who have been criticised for endangering refugees they interviewed, admit they knew they were entering North Korea.

When you have to leave your home quickly like a lot of these refugees have, you may only have time to grap a few things.

Born during World War II in what was then East Prussia, Schwermer as a child joined the flood of refugees expelled by Russian army.

Tens of thousands of refugees from Libya have already reached Europe by crossing the Mediterranean on dangerously overloaded boats.

The United States and the world lost a great humanitarian leader with the passing today of Ken Bacon, President of Refugees International.

Most of the refugees returned when it was clear the Kokang had been overwhelmed.

China will have no reason to provide economic, food and technical aid or accept their refugees in the near future.

That country was also dragged into Liberia and Sierra Leone's wars as refugees -- and armed fighters -- fled over the border.

We met with these refugees, many of whom had been middle-class and educated citizens back in Iraq.

Although the bloodletting seemed to be subsiding as The Economist went to press, the misery of the refugees needs to be alleviated.

I met refugees on the Thai border when the President and I were just in Thailand -- Burmese refugees.

Under the watchful eye of the international community, Thailand has undergone intense scrutiny for the treatment of its refugees.

Refugees have been deprived of their homes, but they must not be deprived of their futures.

Everyone is partaking of this surge - women, minorities, immigrants, teenagers, and corporate refugees alike.

Due to their ethnic consciousness and insularity, about half of the Japanese people do not want to live together with refugees.

The agency says thousands of refugees continue to cross the border from the north in need of food, water and shelter.

eg. Later Mr Moi raised the vexed question of refugees.

Millions of Iraqis became refugees. Thousands of American and allied troops were killed and maimed.

Its army has been deployed at the border and sometimes across it, but has been unable to stem the influx of Somali refugees.

Olmert even privately accepted "theright of return" to Israel for a certain number of Palestinian refugees.

Among them: the borders of a future Palestinian state, competing claims to Jerusalem, and the status of Palestinian refugees.

But think of all the poor refugees who must rot here if I didn't help them.

This sum of money is to be distributed to the refugees.

Clothes and blankets have been distributed among the refugees.

More than 50 people have been killed since violent attacks against migrants and refugees broke out in South Africa on May 11.

Gadaffi has long been cooperating with France, Italy and Spain to halt the flow of such economic refugees.

In recent years, the prosperous Nordic nation has opened its arms to thousands of conflict refugees from Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia.

Before long, other Frenchmen were arriving, refugees from the French Revolution that had broken out in 1789.

Telling the story : Refugees share their experiences with a U. N. official at a camp in Bossaso, a city in northern Somalia.

By the end of 1946, some 90 percent of the perhaps 10 million refugees in Europe had been resettled largely in their former homelands.

"There was harassment and arrests and beatings of refugees as they attempted to enter, " Smith said.

Catholic papers like The Universe have constantly alerted its readers to the plight of the Iraquis and other refugees.

makeshift The refugees slept in makeshift tents at the side of the road.

East Africa drought continues, thousands of Somali refugees, the influx of refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, in search of food.

A new report finds nearly a third of refugees and other people cared for by the U. N. refugee agency are not getting their basic needs met.

Merrill Smith, editor of the report, says when Burmese refugees in boats tried to land in Thailand, the navy intercepted them.

He told SciDev. Net that when he visited Haiti in August, refugees from the earthquake were using water directly from the river and ocean.

Russia and Georgia agreed to open two humanitarian corridors to evacuate the wounded and refugees in South Ossetia.

Back in the field in 1991, he led a Marine expeditionary unit into northern Iraq to rescue millions of Kurdish refugees from Saddam Hussein.

There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.

Many of the refugees have been stuck ever since in a sad finger of dunes, the Gaza Strip, pointing at the bright lights of Tel Aviv.

The UN estimates that nearly two-thirds of refugees today fall into this category, up from less than half in the early 1990s.

Refugees say they are better off at the camp than up in the mountains.

I got to know a lot of Algerian refugees and stowaways.

About 250 thousand ethnic Georgians, in fear of a real threat from the winners, became refugees.

So far, tens of thousands of refugees have crossed into Uzbekistan. According to Unicef, 90% of them are women, children and the elderly.

Government-backed militias in Darfur have sometimes killed well- drillers and ruined water points to prevent refugees returning to the land.

Since 2001 the U. N. has helped 5 million refugees return to Afghanistan, nearly 17 percent of the total population.

Hostility against the refugees in neighboring Chad is reportedly rampant, and sexual assaults against Darfuri women are widespread.

As the refugees speak, crowding together on the blistering sand or under wilting plastic sheeting, a periodic ground-muffled boom resounds.

That number is likely to rise as, in central Africa and on the borders of Iraq, huge numbers of refugees have little prospect of going home.

We knew that thousands of refugees were camped in terrible conditions in four camps on the outskirts of town.

IN THE sweltering summer heat, refugees are streaming out of Yemen's dusty, fly-blown southern town of Zinjibar.

When Constantinpole, the last survival of antiquity, was captured by the Turk, Greek refugees in Italy were welcomed by humanists.

Hanoi insisted they were American citizens who were not discriminated against and thus could not be classified as political refugees.

The government's concern that Tiger fighters had hidden themselves among the refugees should be less acute after its comprehensive victory.

Further fighting could risk either spilling into China, or sending a renewed flood of refugees across the border.

He says most of the Congolese refugees in Uganda are dispersed in a dozen villages along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

think of those Vietnamese refugees who dun have enough to eat! ! ! !

A camp of blue tents was put up for thousands of local refugees like Ms. Mao.

In other words, not quite the hordes of homeless, stateless refugees fleeing runaway climate change that the sensationalist headlines evoke.

Persuading terrified refugees to go home may require a peacekeeping force, organised either in the region or by the UN.

At the neighboring country Jordan, Jordanian Red Crescent set up camp for potential refugees who fled the war in Iraq.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, is calling for an immediate stop to fighting in Sudan's Blue Nile State.

As U. S. allies, they faced persecution at the hands of the communist Vietcong afterward and many came here as refugees at U. S. invitation.

She was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.

Most of the refugees have also returned to their homes, though some scattered resistance by the militants remains.

Humanity is facing in many parts of the unhappy fate into ecological refugees.

It has also expelled aid workers, bringing potentially fatal consequences for refugees in war-torn Darfur.

Despite being home to more than 250, 000 Hmong refugees, the United States has done little to try to resolve the ongoing tensions.

Refugees living in camps, as well as those living in urban areas were surveyed. So were internally displaced and stateless people.

Explains the refugees eligibility criteria and application process for a green card.

He insisted his government would be tough on people-smugglers, but humane towards refugees.

Volunteers from Tobruk bring food, water and fuel to the refugees, who cook on campfires or share small power generators.

Despite the fighting in Afghanistan, Merrill says nearly a quarter million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from Pakistan.

However an official from a relief agency claims that the numbers of refugees have been exaggerated.

A flood of refugees from Somalia, particularly to the Dadaab camp, has begun to pose a risk for Kenya.

Within hours, a makeshift evacuation center at the San Bernardino International Airport was overflowing with fire refugees.

Each of these conflicts has also generated refugees who flee beyond their own borders.

Shourd describes her daughter Sarah as a spunky, caring young woman, who had been working in Syria helping Iraqi refugees.

The refugees picked up from the informal border post at Guvecci were destined for one of the two nearby camps.

The population in the affected districts consists of both refugees and nationals living in rural, densely populated settlements.

Tens of thousands of refugees now live around this stadium - their homes were destroyed in the earthquake.

Trafficking victims found in the United States are afforded the same rights and benefits as refugees.

If these pirates have refugees inside the left into the gene, and that these genes have on the risks and costs high.

I visited the refugees and bought something for them while I was there, but the main purpose of my visit was to deliver a lecture.

The Red Cross decided to contribute food and clothing to the refugees.

Numbers of refugees poured into the neighbouring countries after the war.

In the past quarter-century it has accepted a grand total of 412 refugees, making it one of the world's least hospitable countries.

In an earlier statement, Ali did decry what he called the "continuous threats of Al-Shabab terrorists" to refugees and aid workers.

Parties backed by the rebels in Darfur, for which several million refugees would have voted, never even entered the race.

Some of the political refugees found sanctuary In a monastery.

This bus carries refugees from Iraq into Syria, across one of the most dangerous stretches of land in the world.