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Refugees

• On the anniversary of 9/11, don't forget Iraqi refugees

  

  11 Sep 2013:

  Shant Shahrigian: Let's honor the 9/11 victims by supporting those in the Arab and Muslim worlds who seek a better life in the US

• I was an Iraqi refugee. I keep thinking of the 2 million displaced Syrians

  

  11 Sep 2013:

  Aseel Machi: My family was forced to flee Iraq in 1991. Now Syrian refugees face similar hardships and are at the mercy of other nations

• The New York Times was right to send reporters on a refugee boat to Australia

  

  10 Sep 2013:

  Oliver Laughland: Although Joel van Houdt and Luke Mogelson have yet to publish a single word from their trip, they have borne witness to an event shrouded in a state-sanctioned narrative

• The action we can take on Syria

  

  9 Sep 2013:

  Valerie Amos: The world is divided on a response to chemical weapons, but we must unite behind the UN's humanitarian aid to the Syrian people

• Humanitarian crisis: Syria's nightmare

  

  4 Sep 2013: Editorial: The UN, as the number of refugees passed the 2 million mark, has declared Syria the 21st century's worst crisis

• Syria crisis: should Australia follow Obama's lead?

  

  29 Aug 2013:

  David Donaldson: For Rudd to stand by the US is a risk-free policy: if it goes badly, it will be Obama's fault – but if it goes well, it will be claimed as a moral victory. But it doesn't make it right

• The anger of Syria's child refugees will be felt for years to come

  

  23 Aug 2013:

  António Guterres and Anthony Lake: There are now 1 million Syrian child refugees. More must be done to stop the conflict laying waste to the next generation

• We wouldn't treat animals the way we treat refugees

  

  21 Aug 2013:

  Julian Burnside: If either party were promising to be cruel to animals, it would lose the election. But being cruel to asylum seekers is now a national sport in Australia, and our national character is being redefined

• Europe's treatment of asylum seekers is driven by fear of the unfortunate

  

  12 Aug 2013: Tanya Gold: Violence against migrants is on the rise. Why are the privileged so scared of those in need?

• Syria: there is worse to come

  

  8 Aug 2013: Editorial: Without the international will to stop it, the Syrian conflict has fuel enough to burn for a long time

• Malta needs EU help to cope with its immigration crisis

  

  4 Aug 2013: Jessica Abrahams: Malta receives the highest number of asylum applications in the world in relation to its population. Only EU help can alleviate a growing sense of despair

• Australia's 'stop the boats' policy is cynical and lawless

  

  29 Jul 2013: John Pilger: From Aborigines to refugees, bashing the vulnerable wins votes in what is still a crudely racist country

• The readers' editor on… the 4.9m Palestinians left out of the refugee data

  

  28 Jul 2013:

  Open door: Chris Elliott: The only Palestinians who do appear in the UN refugee agency statistics are 94,804 in countries where UNWRA doesn't operate

• All we can do for Syria now is donate to the relief effort

  

  25 Jul 2013:

  Timothy Garton Ash: Politics is blocked – a solution to the cause of the crisis is not likely any time soon. But we can at least treat the symptoms

• Syrian refugees: no way home

  

  24 Jul 2013: Editorial: The emergency arrangements of the last two years have evolved into permanent, often sad, communities

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