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Category Archives: Human Rights
School lunch as a lifeline
Either let through by the bigger children, or squeezing through unnoticed, many of the smallest were at the front when head teacher Habiba Mohamed Shuriye gave the order to serve the lunch. Their assortment of bowls, cups and jugs – … Continue reading
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Aid agencies raise alarm over Somalia education
Schools should be placed at the forefront of Somalia famine-relief efforts to avoid a second simultaneous crisis in education, UNICEF and other aid agencies say. Aid officials predict hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren will not return to school in September … Continue reading
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Viet Nam ends stateless limbo for 2,300 former Cambodians
HO CHI MINH CITY, Viet Nam, July 19 (UNHCR) – In a joyous citizenship ceremony, Viet Nam took a ground-breaking step towards closing the last chapter in a 35-year-long statelessness saga for some 2,300 former Cambodians. It is the culmination … Continue reading
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A primary school for girls, funded by Angelina Jolie, opened in Eastern Afghanistan!
There were celebrations in Tangi last week when a new primary school for girls was opened barely 18 months after Angelina Jolie visited the settlement for refugee returnees and expressed concern about the lack of basic education facilities for children. … Continue reading
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Wet nursing for refugee orphans in Bangladesh
A wet nurse is a woman hired to breast feed and care for another’s child. Wet nurses are hired when the mother is unable, or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as “milk-siblings”, and … Continue reading
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Zimbabwean teenage asylum-seeker learns the high cost of freedom
When 18-year-old Tsitsi Makwiyena looks down at her son Desmond in her arms, she sees not just a one-week-old perfect baby boy, but also the high price she paid to escape her home country of Zimbabwe and start a new … Continue reading
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Help the Afghan Children
Help the Afghan Children (HTAC), a non-profit, non-partisan, charitable organization, was established in 1993 by Suraya Sadeed, an Afghan-American woman, in response to the horrible conditions of Afghan children she witnessed during Afghanistan’s civil war in the early 1990s. HTAC … Continue reading
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Friday June 19th, 10pm
Translation: Friday June 19th, 10pm Tommorow is Sunday, tommorow is a destiny maker day, tonight the sound of “alaho akbra”(God is Great) is louder than any other nights. (you can hear alaho akbar on the background) where is here? where … Continue reading
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UN calls on Sri Lanka to safeguard civilians, refugees
The UN issued a statement expressing grave concern about the state of civilians trapped in a small sliver of northern Sri Lanka where fighting between government forces and Tamil Tigers is fierce. The UN also called for an effort to … Continue reading
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Refugee in his own country, Swat valley in Pakistan
Hundreds of thousand people have been migrated form Swat valley to different areas of Pakistan since the military operation has started and Its expected that more than one million people are going to migrate soon. Its real pity that how … Continue reading
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