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Hundreds of thousands of people who fled during the north-south war have returned home to extreme poverty in Southern Kordofan, site of some of the deadliest
fighting between north and south Sudan.
The event featured Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of The Forever War, Dexter Filkins, along with RI's own Joel Charny and Patrick Duplat.
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RI's October New York Circle event featured NBC
News anchor Ann Curry and RI Board Member and actor Matt Dillon.
With hopeful signs of improved security in some parts of North Kivu, many Congolese who are returning home are doing so cautiously and with little assistance.
A collection of photos reflecting Ken's tenure as president of Refugees International.
The following are personal stories of south Sudanese people who have
been displaced, as well as people who have returned to their homes, and
the challenges they face in their day-to-day lives.
Stories that show the need to support longer-term early recovery activities in eastern Chad in
order to help both refugees and IDPs.
Refugees International's 30th Anniversary Celebration took place on May 7, 2009, at the Embassy of Italy.
Terrible roads and a fluid security situation have hampered
humanitarian organizations from responding adequately to IDP needs.
With no changes inside Burma in sight, Bangladesh must come to terms with the long-term needs of the Rohingya refugees.
Matt Dillon and Sarah Jessica Parker joined Refugees International to
host a one-night only performance of the play, Betrayed.
Nearly 3,000 Palestinian refugees from Iraq are currently stranded along the
border with Syria, living in isolated camps with
poor infrastructure and security.
In August 2008, Refugees International visited Burundi to assess the condition of former refugees repatriated from Tanzania
Refugees International
visited Kuwait to assess the
condition of statelessness faced by bidun (meaning ‘without’ in Arabic)
and evaluate government efforts to remedy this denial of basic human
rights. We found few tangible changes.
Atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) against the
local population in northern Uganda, along with over two decades of
conflict between the Government of Uganda and the LRA, have forced more
than 1.5 million people to flee their homes.
These photos detail the distribution of clothing to refugees residing
in Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia. The camp currently
hosts more than 17,900 of the 23,500 refugees from Eritrea living in
Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Administration for Refugee/Returnee Affairs
(ARRA), an implementing partner of the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), oversaw the distribution in late April 2008.
Ethiopia, the oldest independent
country in Africa, remains committed to
offering asylum to refugees arriving on its territory from neighboring
countries. Over the past decade, Ethiopia has hosted about 1 million
refugees.
Over the past seventeen
years, Somalia has been subject to ongoing civil wars, droughts and
floods. Most observers agree that the crisis has never been as acute as
it is today. The immense gap between the level of need and the
corresponding humanitarian response is striking. Agencies struggle to
provide food, water, health care, and other basic assistance to one
million internally displaced people because of the worsening security
crisis.
Refugees International recently returned from southern Sudan where we
found that people were returning from exile to villages which are
severely lacking in basic services to accommodate the numbers of
returnees.
