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It's not what you'd expect to see in the heart of the European capital. Nestled between modern tower blocks, a temporary refugee camp has been set up in central Brussels. The 12 tents house some 50 asylum seekers who've been sleeping rough because of a shortage of beds. They were set up by five non-governmental organizations who provide food as well as social and medical help. Like all EU countries, Belgium has a responsibility to provide shelter for refugees. But the financial crisis has ...

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administration in the north of the country. New Zealand can help address this source of the refugee problem at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting* later this month. Our Prime Minister should raise this issue as one requiring the urgent attention of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group*, which is tasked with upholding human rights in Commonwealth countries. The Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, or CMAG, as it is called, has been very engaged with Fiji. It would ...

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, who would otherwise have no chance of an education. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports. Angelina Jolie visits 'one of the most dire' refugee camps at Kenyan Somali border. Press Releases, 12 September 2009 Dadaab, Kenya UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp situated on the Kenya-Somali border on Saturday. Describing the camp as 'one of the most dire' she had seen, Jolie concluded her visit by asking "if

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Bridges of Hope sponsored a trip to help aid and feed families in the displaced people and families in the the large refugee camps on the outskirts of Goma in the DR Congo. As a result of the DR Congo's on going violence and war many people flee for fear of their lives. However often times they are left in dire positions in refugee camps with next to nothing for food and unbelievable sanitary situations. This was one of the most powerful experiences I have ever encountered. Helping to ...

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(abcnews, Nov. 13-2009) Hung Ba Le's first ocean voyage was aboard an overcrowded fishing trawler when he was 5 and his family and hundreds of other terrified refugees fled Vietnam as Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese Communist army. Today he is Commander Le and at the helm of the warship USS Lassen as it makes a good will visit to the country he once fled. "To think that 34 years ago I left here as a little boy and to come back here now, it's incredible," said Le, the first ever ...

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What does it take to heal from mental illness when medications don't work? Can Truong, a war refugee who was among the millions of boat people who fled Vietnam in the 1970's, was a model student, aspiring to become a doctor, when he was diagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder. After years of unsuccessfully trying conventional medical treatments for his mental illnesses, Can becomes involved in the mental health consumer movement, a social and political effort by people labeled with ...

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, who would otherwise have no chance of an education. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports. Angelina Jolie visits 'one of the most dire' refugee camps at Kenyan Somali border. Press Releases, 12 September 2009 Dadaab, Kenya UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp situated on the Kenya-Somali border on Saturday. Describing the camp as 'one of the most dire' she had seen, Jolie concluded her visit by asking "if

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WUSC at the University of Alberta asks members of the University of Alberta community why they support the SRP, and what they would like others to know about it.

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, who would otherwise have no chance of an education. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports. Angelina Jolie visits 'one of the most dire' refugee camps at Kenyan Somali border. Press Releases, 12 September 2009 Dadaab, Kenya UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp situated on the Kenya-Somali border on Saturday. Describing the camp as 'one of the most dire' she had seen, Jolie concluded her visit by asking "if

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