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Successes
  • Iraqi Refugees
    After ongoing pressure from Refugees International, the U.S. State Department increased its assistance for Iraqi refugees from $43 million in 2006 to $398 million in 2008.
  • Iraqi Refugee Resettlement
    A campaign by Refugees International and other organizations led the U.S. State department to increase the resettlement of Iraqi refugees from 200 in 2006 to 13,823 Iraqis in 2008.
  • Palestinian Refugees in Iraq
    In July 2008, Refugees International stopped the resettlement to Sudan of 3,000 Palestinians stranded between Iraq and Syria when we issued a press release calling attention to this decision by the UN Refugee Agency, the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Sudan.
  • Sudan
    In 2008, after the U.S. Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) threatened to withdraw from south Sudan, Refugees International called on the agency to continue its work and argued that humanitarian funding levels were still needed to respond to ongoing emergency needs. As a result, OFDA reversed course and developed a three-year plan to provide assistance in the region.
  • Colombia
    In 2008, after Refugees International's ongoing calls for increased attention to the humanitarian crisis in Colombia, Congress increased emergency relief funding for the U.S. State Department's refugee bureau's programs in Colombia from $1.5 million to $5.6 million.
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