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NGO: how to stop people smugglers’ murderous trade
05/26/2016. The Italian Council for Refugees says the people smugglers who cram hundreds of migrants onto rickety boats that are obviously unseaworthy are akin to “mass murderers.”
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A record number of internally displaced
05/11/2007. Conflict, violence and disasters internally displaced 27.8 million people in 2015, subjecting a record number of men, women and children to the trauma and upheaval of being forcibly displaced within their own country.
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Iraq : Malteser International provides aid to displaced
30/03/2016. Fears that thousands more will flee as the battle continues
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conference : "Refugees, a challenge for Europe"
"I never forget that we are talking about men, women and children" Pascal Brice, the Director General of OFPRA
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Conference on Migrants and Cities
10/27/2015. The Conference on Migrants and Cities was held in Geneva on 26 and 27 October 2015
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Lebanon ... perpetual refugee camps ?
03/18/2016. Complex and devastating, the Syrian conflict may portend a long stay, perhaps irreversible, of refugees in Lebanon.
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"Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon are likely to falter"
03/01/2016. The Obama administration ridiculed for not flying to the aid of its European allies, Turkish, Jordanian or Lebanese overwhelmed by the flood of refugees and migrants.
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Italian Relief Corps’ New Syrian Refugee Rescue Mission in the Aegean presented to the Press
02/18/2016. The mission patrols the sea separating Greece from Turkey. The medical staff have saved over 600 human lives in less than two months.
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The Humanitarian Caste System?
09/30/2016. Syrians are everyone’s new favourite refugees. But the growing perception that they receive preferential treatment is undermining humanitarian principles.
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Migrants and refugees ... causes and consequences
20/02/2016. Anne Sinclair receives Hélène Thiollet, political scientist specializing in migration to try to take stock of the issue of migrants and refugees.
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