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World News tagged with refugees

Colombians Come to Venezuela in Droves
World  (tags: Venezuela, Colombia, capitalism, fascism, war, civil war, refugees, migration, immigration, oppression, exploitation, poverty, revolution, socialism, democracy, HumanRights, humanrights, leftwing, left, leftist, progressive, egalitarian, equality )

Simon
- 7 days ago - venezuelanalysis.com
Some people imagine that "Venezuela is a dictatorship that people are fleeing". The reality is very different: a democracy, where the people have elected socialist governments in recent years, ensuring less poverty, more human rights, & more people coming
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Somali Camps 'Unfit for Humans'
World  (tags: Somalia, Refugees, civil war, Anarchy )

Ben
- 78 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The aid agency Oxfam has decried the conditions in which hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict in Somalia are being forced to live. It says the overcrowded and badly managed camps in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are "barely fit for humans"
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Save Darfur | Don't Forget Darfur Photo Petition
World  (tags: darfur, action, human rights, crime, Refugees, petition )

Jelica
- 79 days ago - savedarfur.org
Our Darfur/Darfur exhibit will bring the people of Darfur face to face with world leaders. Now is your chance to go face to face with them as well. Will you add your picture to our "Don't Forget Darfur" photo petition? Your photos will create a mosaic tha
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Burma: 10,000 More Kokang Refugees Flee Into China
World  (tags: Burma, Civil war, refugees, China )

Ben
- 84 days ago - irrawaddy.org
Another wave of 10,000 Kokang civilians fled into China on Thursday and Friday due to continued clashes between the Burmese army and ethnic militias in the Kokang region of northeastern Burma, said sources on the Sino-Burmese border...
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Sign Petition: Help Promote the Roadmap to End Global Hunger!
World  (tags: world, hunger, poverty, refugees, relief, food, human, rights, aid, africa, asia, europe, middle-east, UN, obama, government, politics )

Tom
- 162 days ago - change.org
Friends of the World Food Program (WFP) and its coalition partners developed the Roadmap to End Global Hunger that will guide Congress and the new administration in establishing a comprehensive strategy to address global hunger.
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Save Darfur Petition
World  (tags: darfur, refugees, dead and dying, helpless people, you can help them?, please do, violence, world, ethics )

David
- 193 days ago - petitiononline.com
This petition calls for the government of America as well as the United Nations and the African Union to send a real peacekeeping force to the region and to increase aid. If they won't stop the Janjaweed, they may as well try to stop the refugee crisis...
16 comments
Sign Petition: End the Conflict - Bring Peace to Sri Lanka!
World  (tags: world, UN, refugees, relief, Sri Lanka, war, violence, humanrights, conflict, children, politics, suffering, humans, civilians, hunger, men, women, freedoms, culture )

Tom
- 196 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Target: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Please join the Better World Campaign in thanking the UN for the critical humanitarian and diplomatic work they have done thus far - and urge them to do everything in their power to end the suffering in Sri Lanka.
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Emergency Relief for the Crisis in Sri Lanka!
World  (tags: Sri Lanka, Refugees, Crisis )

Ben
- 206 days ago - shop.thehungersite.com
You can help families in desperate need! Learn about the crisis in Sri Lanka, and take action here to alleviate it. More than 200,000 refugees in poor condition -- with many more expected to arrive soon -- are already crowded into government refugee...
12 comments
Sign Pledge: Send Bed Nets to Refugees in Africa for World Malaria Day
World  (tags: world, africa, malaria, bed, nets, UN Refugee Agency, refugees, health, prevention, fundraising, rescue, humans, children, family, medicine, illness, disease, risks, safety, prevention )

Tom
- 213 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
From now until World Malaria Day, April 25, the UN Foundation's Nothing But Nets campaign is working with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to send 275,000 life-saving nets to protect African refugees from malaria--the #1 killer of refugees in Africa.
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Asylum Seeker Boat 'Doused in Petrol' - Australia
World  (tags: australia, Western Australia, wa, refugees, afghanis, afghanistan, explosion, christmas island )

Chrissy
- 218 days ago - abc.net.au
Authorities are investigating whether a fatal explosion on a boat carrying 49 Afghanis off Australia's north-west coast was an act of sabotage. The fire, which started about 8.15am as the boat was being escorted to Christmas Island, has left at least 3
6 comments
SRI LANKA: Thousands of Refugees Flee Conflict-Hit North
World  (tags: world, Sri Lanka, war, violence, tamil tigers, children, refugees, humans, conflict, death )

Tom
- 241 days ago - irinnews.org
Thousands of civilians, many of them children, escaped fighting in the north despite heavy artillery and mortar fire as the UN warned of deteriorating conditions for those 150,000 to 200,000 people still trapped in the combat zone.
3 comments
Zimbabwe on Brink of Collapse as Outbreak of Cholera Spreads
World  (tags: africa, death, humans, refugees, cholera, collapse )

David
- 361 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The situation in Zimbabwe may soon "implode" as a cholera outbreak spreads and basic services collapse, South African leaders and a group of international statesmen warned yesterday. About 6,000 people have contracted cholera in recent weeks. 300 dead.
28 comments
Hungry Congo Refugees Get Soap, No Food
World  (tags: congo, refugees, food crisis, UnitedNations, humans, hunger, medical supplies, conflict, violence, war, suffering )


- 381 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Refugees who haven't eaten for days cheered when the first humanitarian convoy in a week arrived Monday at their camp, but the jubilation turned into anger when U.N. workers dumped soap and jerry cans instead of food and sped on past rebel lines.
5 comments
Spotlight Falls on India's Tibetans
World  (tags: Tibet-Chinese-Oppression, India, Refugees, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Ben
- 580 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Protests against the Indian leg of the Olympic torch relay have put a spotlight on the country's large population of Tibetan exiles. Tens of thousands have crossed into India since 1959, when Chinese put down a Tibetan uprising.
2 comments
BBC NEWS | Africa | Ghana to Expel Female Protesters
World  (tags: ghana, women, refugees, protests )


- 612 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of the women were arrested on Monday and taken away from a refugee camp in 10 buses, witnesses say.
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