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Three ads from the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and ACNUR send a message for and in behalf of the world’s refugees via visuals that are so heavily and beautifully photoshopped that one can no longer feel the ugliness of the raging social malaise upon which the public awareness campaign is based. The advertising campaign asks the question: Would [...]

According to Robert Van den Berg, a spokesman for Oxfam International in the Horn of Africa, “Somalis flee one of the world’s most brutal conflicts and a desperate drought, only to end up in unimaginable conditions in camps that are barely fit for humans.” Oxfam also asserts that ‘the international community has failed the refugees who [...]

There are a record high number of displaced people due to conflicts in the world today according to latest UNHCR’s annual Global Trends reports released yesterday. At the end of 2008 the total number of refugees was at 42m and now after recent Sri Lanka’s war against LTTE, Pakistan’s crackdown on Taliban at Swat and conflict in Somalia the number [...]

There have been other genocides apart from the one in Sudan. There had been systematic killing of populations in Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The difference with the genocide in Darfur is that Omar al-Bashir, the perpetrator of the genocide, carries on his mockery of the justice system, ignores his arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war [...]

Thousands of refugees are arriving in Kolkata from Sunderbans islands. Aila cyclone and flooding has washed away their homes and interior islands have received absolutely no relief from the government and other agencies. There is acute shortage of drinking water and food. Areas have no electricity. Never before people of Sunderbans have taken such a [...]

There have been reports of young Tamil women found with their throats slit, as well as abduction by paramilitary groups of Tamil children who have been suspected of being former Tamil Tigers child soldiers. Other refugees have reported the disappearances of some children from the camps. International humanitarian organizations have also observed that [...]

Pakistan’s offensive to eradicate the Taliban has brought about approximately 2 million refugees who fled the fighting in the northwest of the country. The Pakistani government has reminded potential international aid donors that the Taliban might take advantage of other countries’ failure to help. Some countries have already pledged $224 million [...]

This Saturday, the Pakistani army was able to enter Mingora, the main town of the Swat valley in the northwest. Confrontations with the Taliban militants continue. According to a spokesman for the army, Major General Athar Abbas, the insurgents were driven from several quarters, and 17 rebels, including an important commander, were killed over the [...]

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or more commonly called Tamil Tigers has been one of the more savage militant groups that have ever been formed. The group has been notorious in undertaking suicide bombings, as well as recruiting child soldiers. It is also known to have engaged in arms trafficking. The Tamil Tigers “were the pioneers in [...]

The number of internally displaced people in Pakistan is now two million of which more than 1,400,000 have been recorded in the last two weeks, as reported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). It has been ‘such a massive shift in such a short period of time,’ according to the office. UNHCR data show a total of 1,454,377 [...]