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A visiting United Nations official has recommended the Federal Government close its Christmas Island immigration detention centre and boost funding for Indigenous health.... The UN's Special Rapporteur on Health, Anand Grover, spent 12 days visiting Australia's prisons, detention centres and indigenous communities..... After touring remote indigenous communities Grover said some of them have poorer health standards than third world countries. He said for the situation to improve, funding ...

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The UNHCR needs greater support .....at least some of the 78 Sri Lankans aboard the Oceanic Viking have been in Indonesia for years and have already been granted refugee status, it seems, on the basis of the limited information available, that the UNHCR system needs more international support for placing refugees..... 'The Australian' has argued consistently for an increase in the numbers of refugees admitted to this country via the established resettlement process. In regional forums we ...

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petition to the British High Commission in Colombo. It was signed by a large group. Attorney General in UK to explore possibility of legal action against channel 4 Attorney General Mohan Peiris who went to Geneva to attend a UN human rights Council meeting, is expected to leave for UK end of this week to enlist the assistance of a legal Firm to file action against UK channel 4. Sept 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka will take all possible measures against the Channel-4 TV of the UK which broadcasted ...

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Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is a Palestinian non-governmental non-partisan organization based in the refugee camp of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip. Al Mezans mandate is to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights in general and economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights in particular, to provide effective aid to those victims of such violations, and to enhance the quality of life of the community in marginalized sectors of the Gaza Strip. The mission of the Mezan Center for ...

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Hazem Jamjoum is the Media and Information officer of the Badil Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights. He spoke to a group of Interfaith Peace Builder delegates in Badil's Bethlehem offices. In this clip he defines in detail the Right of Return as three things: 1) the physical return of the refugee 2) restitution of the property 3) compensation for the injury. In response to a question from one of the delegates Jamjoum continues to discuss the difficulty of addressing the right ...

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Justice Initiative. John Heffernan, Director, Genocide Prevention Initiative, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Rev. Dr. Gloria E. White-Hammond, Chairwoman of the Save Darfur Coalition Board of Directors, Co-pastor of the Bethel AME Church in Boston, Co-founder of My Sisters Keeper, and formerly a pediatrician at the South End Community Health Center. ... rape war crime Holocaust museum violence gender Darfur Sudan Chad refugee testimony panel Bello Ahmadi Askin Heffernan White ...

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* Ambulance * Various shots of attacks, white phosphorous * Various shots of Gaza Skyline, flares, white smoke * Helicopter attack, centre for Arab Media and Foreign Journalists (Shurooq Tower) * Gaza City and white smoke * Press TV car arriving at a hospital * Press opening the car door and falling down * Various shots of wounded * UN Centre and Al-Quds Hospital * Huge cloud of black smoke * Close up of damaged buildings * Soundbite of a women talking about the airstrike * Various of ...

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would have permitted Mr. Galloway to speak in person at a series of anti-war and pro-Palestinian rallies this week. "A proper factual record and the benefit of full legal argument are lacking at the present time," said the judge in his ruling. "I am not ready to exempt Mr. Galloway from the provisions in the (Immigration and Refugee Protection) Act and Regulations respecting entry and examination," he wrote. The judge issued his ruling Monday afternoon after a rare Federal Court hearing ...

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returning home. Out of Exile includes the personal stories of 17 Sudanese people, as told to Craig Walzer, a former legal services adviser to Darfuri and other Sudanese refugees in Cairo. They describe life in the major stations on the "refugee railroads": in the desert camps of Khartoum, the underground communities of Cairo, the humanitarian metropolis of Kakuma refugee camp, and the still-growing internally displaced persons camps in Darfur. Featured Contributor: Dave Eggers, author ...

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a special Chicago screening of the film "The Visitor" in October 2008, presented by Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center and the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights as part of the City of Chicago's Immigrant & Refugee Week and in partnership with Active Voice. For more information, visit www.immigrantjustice.org, www.midwesthumanrights.org, and www.activevoice.net/thevisitor. ... immigration immigrant detention asylum refugee ICE The Visitor news Chicago Active Voice human ...

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