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November 16, 2005
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August 19, 2005
August 3, 2005
July 7, 2005
June 7, 2005
January 3, 2005
December 6, 2004
November 16, 2004
November 10, 2004
September 24, 2004
August 17, 2004
August 4, 2004
Past Warehousing Bulletins:
World Refugee Survey 2008 Worldwide Release Formerly Warehoused Refugee Represents U.S. at Olympics Kenya: Refugees Prefer Somalia to Warehousing Thailand: Warehousing Fosters Corruption and Undermines National Security
- DfID Review of Warehousing and Armed Political Group
- Economist, Labor Leader, Monk on TV Panel—Let the Refugees Work! Warehousing at UNHCR's 42nd Standing Committee Join us on Facebook!
Algeria: “Saltana does not want to be enslaved” JRS: No Right to Work, No Human Dignity South Africa Rejects Camps Thailand:
- Noted Economist: Educate the Bureaucrats, Let the Refugees Work
- Which is the Security Threat?
- Warehousing goes Alcatraz Malaysia: Migration Working Group Forum Senators Write to World Bank on “Regulatory Quality” and Refugee Rights World Refugee Survey Release June 19 Research Query: Refugee Caucuses New Endorsements
Algeria: More on Slavery in the Camps Nepal: Fire in Camp Leaves 12,000 Homeless, Still Forbidden to Live Elsewhere Yemen: "Help us, we are hanging in hell" IRC: Countries Should Act Now for Iraqi Refugee Rights Frontiers and FIDH: Deal on Iraqis in Lebanon "an empty gesture" USCRI in WPJ Associated Press on the "Refugee Archipelago" Warehousing Undermines Integration Jamieson: "If there is a way to avoid setting a camp, find it; If there is a way to close a camp, take it" UNHCR examines "community-based operations" Research Query: Godot in the Camps
UNHCR Calls for ExCom Conclusion on Self-Reliance "Regardless of the Applicable Durable Solution" Thailand: Thai Rath on BLF Roundtable: Pick up Thaksin’s Program on Refugee Work
- Business-Labor-Faith Coalition Members on the Radio
- Refugees Riot After Militia Kills Student
- Statement Endorser Cynthia Maung Wins Human Rights Award
- USCRI Thailand Gets another Article in Matichon
- Mae La Camp on Nation TV UNHCR: “Improve Refugee Women's Lives by Recognizing their Right to Work” The World Refugee Survey is an Authoritative Source What is the What on Warehousing Self-Sufficiency in Countries of First Asylum in U.S. State Department Mandate New Endorsements
USDOS and Freedom House Beef up Refugee Rights Reporting Sponsor World Refugee Survey 2008! Lebanon: Human Rights Watch Reports on Iraqi Refugees
- Lebanon Imprisons 500 Iraqi Refugees, Bars Others from Work
- Refugee Rap Group Releases "Welcome to the Camps" Demo Album Voluntary Repatriation or Constructive Refoulement? Jordan: "We will not run a parallel system of education" Pope on Warehousing Children: "It Is Impossible to Remain Silent" Thailand: Business Labor Faith Coalition Forms to End Refugee Warehousing
- Film Shows Common Issues of Stateless Karen and Warehoused Refugees
- Refugees Confront Provincial Governor after Paramilitary Shoots Refugee in Camp
- Report on Paramilitaries and Militias Used to Control Refugees New Endorsements
Algeria: Slavery in Tindouf Camps Lebanon: Amnesty International Exposes Warehousing of Palestinian Refugees
- Daily Star Covers and Weighs in on AI Report Thailand: Industry Leader says Warehousing a Waste of Human Resources
- Photos from Mae La Camp Iraq/Syria: Fire Devastates Palestinian Camp at Border Crossing Israel to Outsource Warehousing? Pakistan to Confiscate Refugee Property? NGOs Call for ExCom Resolution on Self-Reliance Rights ExCom 2007 Greatest Hits New Endorsements
Thailand: Matichon Runs USCRI Op-ed
- Warehousing “A Tragedy on an Epic Scale”—EC Rep
- Thailand Needs 400,000 more Workers This Year
- “Law” in Camps: Imprisonment for Adultery?
- Other Thailand Headlines Malaysia: Website Chronicles Refugee Lives Egypt: Warehousing Drives Refugees to Gangs, Dangerous Flight NGOs to Call for ExCom Conclusion on Self-Reliance Note on International Protection on Warehousing Issues New Endorsements
Research Contributors Drive Worldwide Release of Survey Report: Iraqi Refugees Not Major Cause of Inflation in Jordan Thailand: World Refugee Day
- Students Speak Out
- Warehousing One of Top Ten Challenges Encampment More Dangerous than Poverty or Orphanhood in Recruitment Risk Report Refugee Detention Cases for Urgent Action! Support USCRI Using GoodSearch.com New Endorsements
Lebanon: Fighting Spreads to Largest Camp
- Warehousing as Political Tool World Refugee Survey 2007 Global Roll-out July 11 Camp Volunteer Group to Hold Conference on Warehousing Nepal: UNHCR Calls Prolonged Encampment of Bhutanese “criminal” Thailand: RTG Issues Identity Cards to Myanmarese Refugees
- USCRI to Celebrate World Refugee Day
- RFA, VOA on USCRI Hathaway: Make International Responsibility Sharing Binding, Rights-Based Web Project Highlights Warehousing of Refugees Warehousing Panel at American Enterprise Institute New Endorsers of the Campaign to End Warehousing
Iraqi Refugees: USCRI Calls for New Refugee Aid Model
- Iraqi Refugees Refuse to Live in Tents
- UNHCR Reluctantly Considers Camps Nepal: Bhutanese Refugee Killed in Clash with Locals Poverty in Camps Tied to Sexual Abuse of Children UNHCR Calls for Conclusion on Self-Reliance NGOs Address Warehousing at UNHCR’s March Standing Committee ASEAN Parliamentarians Visit Thai Camp, Call for Rights Dadaab Camps a Recruiting Ground for Al Qaeda? Bangladesh: UNHCR Calls on Government to Ratify Convention, Let Refugees Move and Work
- "what we don't want to do is to set up a formal camp" Briefing on HIV and Refugees Calls for Integrative, Rights-Based Aid Who-coined-“warehousing” Watch New Endorsers of the Campaign to End Warehousing
Thailand: USCRI Office Holds Open House
- Children from Myanmar Mix Well in Samut Sakhon School
- Labor Group Endorses Refugees' Right to Work Warehousing on KPFA San Fransisco Peters Warns Against Warehousing Iraqi Refugees Pope Speaks Out on Sexual Exploitation in Camps Oregon Archbishop Highlights Warehousing Boston College Prof Calls for Alternatives to Encampment Warehousing Inhibits Rape Investigations Pakistan: Paper Investigates Violence Against Refugee Women in Pakistan Nepal: Warehousing Compared with Côte d'Ivoire
- Bamboo Camp Housing Causing Children's Pneumonia and Asthma India: Nair Highlights "Urban Nightmare" for Chin Refugees New Endorsers of the Campaign to End Warehousing
Messrs. Kabwe and Lushimba go to Washington Thailand: USCRI Opens Office
- UNHCR Publishes Analysis of Protection Gaps
- Poll Shows Weak Support for Migrants
- Not Enough Teachers for Refugees Who Want to Learn Thai Egypt: Schools Expel Iraqi Refugee Children, Parents Protest Jordan: Scant Refuge
- Forgotten Gaza Refugee: Allow my Son to Work Kenya: Refugees Bill Passes
- Somalis who Reject Camp, Struggle in Eastleigh South Africa: Partial Victory on Livelihoods United States: Protection Groups Weigh in on “Foreign Assistance Reform”
Kenya: Heavy Flooding Kills At Least 3 Refugees, Displaces 100,000 Jordan: Iraqi Refugees Live With “The Silent Treatment” Thailand:
- Violence and Impunity in the Camps
- RTG May Allow Refugees to Work, but on What Terms?
- Camp Life Worsens AIDS Risk Quick Notes
Kenya:
- Refugee Insights takes on “Encamping Refugees”
- RCK Lobbies for the Kenyan Refugees Bill
- Interview with Refugee Secretariat on Urban Registration
- Campbell: Refugees in Nairobi not a Burden
- Frustration Aids Militia Recruitment Among Warehoused Somalis
- Malnutrition at 22 percent in Camp on Somali Border Lebanon: Armed Clash in Ein el-Hilweh Malaysia: Reflections on Refugees Thailand: Refugees could be a boon—Economist United States: Integrate Refugee Protection in All Aspects of Foreign Aid Reform Zambia: Country Loses for not Allowing Refugees to Integrate into Economy - JRS UNHCR’s Executive Committee: Member Interventions New Endorsements
Thailand:
- Dutch MP Calls for RTG to Open Camps, Let Refugees Work
- Reuters: U.S. Refugee Chief Calls Encampment Policy an Unnecessary Waste
- RTG Offers “New Vision,” IDs for Refugees
- UNHCR Chief Has Open Discussions with RTG
- Bangkok’s The Nation Supports Employment for Refugees
- Bangkok Post Supports New Policy
- "Life Inside" Exhibit Documents Warehousing
- Women’s Commission Report on Refugee Livelihoods Burundi: Refugees Leave Camps, Despite Health Services, "Prefer...Freedom" India: Students Debate Right to Work, UNHCR Obscures Issue Jordan: No School for Iraqi Children Kenya: Four Dead in Clashes at Kakuma Camp Lebanon: Unexploded Ordnance Compounds Work Restrictions Malaysia: Immigration Arrests Hundreds of Chin in Workplace Raid Nepal:
- Locals Block Aid to Goldhap Camp
- Refugees Fake Citizenship for Property Rights and Travel Documents Pakistan: Plans to Restrict Afghans to Camps and Deport Them South Africa: Refugees Killed Over ‘Business Jealousy’ Zambia: Food production declines as Angolan refugees go home AU-Cairo Course in Refugees and Migrants, and a Rights-based Approach to Development IJRL Reviews Rights in Exile NGO Endorsements of Statement to End Warehousing Top 400
Lebanon:
- Palestinians Share Al Rashidiya Camp
- 200 Palestinians Stranded in New ‘No-Mans Land’ on Syrian Border
- Palestinian Refugees Shelter Lebanese, Hope for Right to Work
- Restrictions and Fear of Exclusion Trap Palestinians Thich Nhat Hanh Endorses Anti-Warehousing Statement OIC States to Hold November Conference on Refugees in Muslim World Women at Risk: Stats Undermine Encampment on Seeking SGBV Relief Australia: Churches Set “Refugee Sunday” Malawi: Refugees Bolt from Camps to Set up Businesses Malaysia:
- UNHCR Urges Refugees’ Right to Work
- "Seeking a Safe Haven" Namibia: Refugees Call on Donors to “Stop Donating” and Close Camp Nepal:
- Jhapa Authorities Crack Down on Refugee Movement
- "We Bhutanese Refugee women have been warehoused in Nepal since the last 15 years" Pakistan: Returning Afghan Refugees Take Carpet Skills with Them South Africa: Refugees Appeal Discriminatory Ruling Editorial in Catholic Weekly Covers Warehousing, World Refugee Survey 2006 UNHCR Releases New Studies
Refugees Back in U.S. Development Legislation UNHCR Standing Committee:
- NGOs Advance Rights-based Approach to Targeted Development Assistance
- NGOs Denounce Detention of Refugee Women for Adultery
- NGOs Call for Alternatives to Encampment to Protect Children
- UNHCR: Refugees Have Rights and Can be Agents of Development USAID on Warehousing Lebanon:
- "Beirut's Real Refugees"
- Israelis Hit Refugee Camp in South
- Casualties of Warehousing: Palestinian Refugee Rentboys
- Ministers Visit Ain al-Hilweh Camp, Find “a Real Tragedy” Thailand: CCSDPT/UNHCR Assessment Identifies Protection Gaps and Policy Changes Malaysia: Website Highlights Work Restrictions, Income Generation Project Oman: Horrendous Conditions Reported in Dhofar Bangladesh:
- Malnutrition, Crowding, and Despair in Nayapara Camp
- Commissioner Reportedly Threatens to Evict Stateless Biharis
South Africa: Cape Town Forum Addresses Refugee Rights New Endorsements
Just Released: World Refugee Survey 2006—Risks and Rights Bangladesh: Natural Disasters Hit Camps Burundi: Despite Aid Promise, 18,000 Congolese Refuse Camps Egypt: Report on Cairo Massacre Implicates Warehousing India: Self-Sufficiency Program for Myanmarese Chin not Working Lebanon: Camp Conditions Worse than in Gaza but There is Hope--UNRWA Nepal: Travel Documents to Resume but TRWO May Not Re-open South Africa: Court Affirms Ban on Refugees as Security Guards; New Law to Streamline Status Determinations Thailand: 121 Groups and Individuals Appeal to Annan for Refugees United States: Importance of Including Refugee Protection in Millennium Challenge Account Zambia: Insensitive Somalis Leave Camps, Set Bad Example New Endorsements
U.S. Congress Hears again from USCRI about Warehousing Malaysian NGO Condemns refoulement of 31 Chin Refugees Government and Rebels Forcibly Recruit 4,700 Encamped Refugees, including Children, in Chad Iraqis Languish without Status or Rights in Jordan … and Lebanon Pakistani Businessmen Seek Ouster of Afghan Competition Boston Student Visits Refugee Camp, Starts Campaign German Fund’s Refugee Scholarships Benefit Ecuadorians too UN: The World Needs to Hear More About Warehousing New Anti-Warehousing Campaign Endorsers
Refugee Warehousing Puts Women at Risk: Write to ExCom Lebanon:
- Cabinet Delegation Visits Camps to Discuss Refugee Rights
- Amnesty International Condemns Restrictions
- Refugee Voices: “he could have continued his education … but make no money” Kenya:
- Corporate Leaders Appalled by Warehousing
- Refugee Voices: “We were waiting for God but we had no hope” WFP/UNHCR Malnutrition in Protracted Refugee Situations is “Rights Failure” Jesuit Refugee Service Links Food to Rights UNHCR Highlights Warehousing in 2006 State of the World’s Refugees Azerbaijan Economist Calls for Employment of Refugees Research Query on "Fallen Refugee Workers" in 2005
- Warehousing Puts Women at Risk
- NGOs call for ExCom Conclusion
- Livelihood Restrictions Endanger Bhutanese Women
- "Displaced Women and Girls At Risk"
- Short Course at AU-Cairo- Bridging the Relief-to-Development/Warehousing-to-Freedom Gap
- Refugee Council USA Seeks Refugee Rights Amendment
- How Millennium Challenge Account Fails Refugees
- Sen. Allen Says Committee Should Consider Refugee Rights Amendment
- IGAD Commits to Include Refugees in Development- Progress in Thailand
- PM Visits Camp, Calls for Innovative Approaches, Int’l Standards, and Civil Society Support
- Government Postpones Restrictive Deposits for Migrant Workers
- Loescher and Milner Highlight New Thinking
- MOI Hosts Workshop on Refugees- Regress in Zambia
- Quick, Warehouse the Refugees before the Locals Take Them in!
- IRIN: "Law-breaking refugees pose challenge"- President Bush Concerned about Warehousing in Lebanon
- Civil Society in Action
- South Africa: Interchurch Dialogue on Refugee Rights
- Ecuador: Art for Refugee-Host Solidarity- Scholarship: Goodwin-Gill on History of Refugee Rights
- Anti-Warehousing Activist in the News: Tek Nath Rizal
- Research Query on “Fallen Refugee Workers” in 2005
- Kenya Begins to Register Refugees in Nairobi … and UNHCR Meets to Revise Policy on Refugees in Urban Areas
- Thailand: ASEAN Caucus—Let Refugees Work; … UNHCR to Tackle Warehousing
- Diplomats Urge Bangladesh to Allow Free Movement of Rohingya Refugees
- Warehousing disasters in Algeria … and Zambia
- Refugee Camps in New York City
- International Participation in Campaign to Include Refugees in U.S. MCA
- Egyptian Civil Society Remembers Death of Sudanese, Calls for Enquiry
- Entrenched relations and the permanence of long-term refugee camp situations
- New Website Feature “Country Campaign Pages”
U.S. Campaign to Include Refugee Rights in Development Aid Play Football, End Warehousing! “A Forgotten Population”: Photo Exhibit on Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon Tennessee Students create Mock Refugee Camp Bangladesh Should Ratify Convention—NGO Seminar Anti-Warehousing Activist in the News Refugee Voices
Egyptian Rights Groups Call for Investigation of Refugee Massacre Thailand to Educate Refugees; Might Allow Work “Abuse without end: Burmese refugee women and children at risk of trafficking” Unregistered refugees, untapped potential in Kenya ECRE: Warehousing is not “Effective Protection” UNHCR as Catalyst Rather than Sovereign Refugee Voices/Nepal: Refugee Women Organize ; UK: “We don't want support from the state…" JRS Surveys Detention of Refugees in Commonwealth Countries Warehousing in the New Yorker New Endorsements
- Yemeni Security Forces Clash with Refugee Demonstrators, Killing One
- Check Out New Anti-Warehousing Website!
- Refugees Protest Encampment in Burundi
- Jesuit Group Calls for Refugee Freedom of Movement
- East African Catholic Association Calls for Refugee Rights
- Papua New Guinea Registers Refugee Births
- Malaysian Anti-Warehousing Group Wins Swedish Right Livelihood Prize
- EU & UN Officials Find Bangladesh Camps Unsanitary
- A Day Without Haitians
- Research Query on Refugee Protests
- New Endorsements
- Millennium Challenge Corp. Picks Refugee Hosting Countries for Aid
- Canadian Council for Refugees passes Anti-warehousing Resolution
- Nepal Denies Refugees Travel Documents
- Documentation Delays cost Somali Refugee Jobs in Yemen
- UN Migration Commission Director Denounces Warehousing
- Refugee Law Project Studies Self-settled Refugees in Uganda
- South Africa Inadequately Protects Livelihood Rights
- New Endorsements
November 16, 2005
- U.S. Congress Passes Anti-Warehousing Amendment!
- AU Cairo Offers Course on Warehousing
- Congress queries U.S. Refugee Program Nominee on Warehousing
- Warehousing a cause of “Irregular and Secondary Movements”
- UNHCR publishes Handbook for Self-Reliance
- Australian Church Group presses on
- New Endorsements
- Refugee Voices: Bhutanese Speak Out
October 19, 2005
- Joint NGO Statement on UNHCR and MDGs
- North-South Conference a Success; What’s Next?
- Australian Group Publishes Anti-Warehousing Working Paper
- From Kenya, Refugee Insights on Warehousing
- Statements on Warehousing at the 56th Session of UNHCR’s Executive Committee, October 3-7, 2005, Geneva
- U.S. Congressional Refugee Caucus members call for more money for refugees and anti-warehousing pilot projects
- Refugees to be included in the Millennium Challenge Account
- Testimony from the Camps of Thailand
- New Anti-Warehousing Statement Endorsements
September 25 and 26, 2005: North-South Civil Society Conference on Refugee Warehousing
- Refugee Reports Special Edition
- Warehousing and Katrina
- EMM Reports on Tanzania
- Message Spreads in South Asia
- Statement Endorsements pass 300!
- Scots Defend Asylum Seekers
August 19, 2005
- Call for Updates!
- Civil Society Action
- Anti-Warehousing in the Press
- New Scholarship
August 3, 2005
- Refugee rights funding amendment
- Anti-warehousing in the news and on the web
- North-South Civil Society Conference on Refugee Warehousing
- Who coined warehousing?
- Notable new endorsements
July 7, 2005
- NGOs uphold rights at Standing Committee
- Onward to ExCom!
- Conference Update
June 7, 2005
- North-South Civil Society Conference on Refugee Warehousing
- Dalai Lama and others endorse anti-warehousing Statement.
- Refugees in Osire Camp, Namibia publish Voice of Refugees.
- Media: Thai Senator Kraisak Choonhavan says Tham Hin “like a concentration camp;" Voice of America interviews USCRI president, Lavinia Limón; blistering Washington Post op-ed on unaccountable power over warehoused refugees.
- Refugee Council of Australia's "Intake Submission" deals with warehousing.
- Baltimore Sun runs “Providing Refugee” editorial on warehousing
- Refugee Law Project analyses "Development Assistance for Refugees" in Uganda
January 3, 2005
- BBC interviews USCRI’s Lavinia Limón in "Call to end refugee warehousing."
- Survey editor Merrill Smith to speak at IASFM conference in Brazil.
- NGO endorsements of anti-warehousing Statement surpass 100.
- Chattanooga Middle School Model UN to address warehousing.
December 6, 2004
- NPR's Renee Montagne interviews USCRI’s Lavinia Limón on Morning Edition.
- North-South NGO Summit on Refugee Rights tentatively scheduled.
- Letter for Congressional anti-warehousing resolution posted on various blogs.
- USCRI to take congressional delegation to Thailand.
- USCRI comments to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on mass exoduses.
- Senators nominate USCRI for Nansen prize.
- InterAction letter to State Department on refugee rights to work and move freely.
- South Carolina branch of Christian Rural Overseas Program raises warehousing.
November 16, 2004
- Link to report on ExCom meeting and Rights in Exile: Janus-Faced Humanitarianism available.
- High Commissioner says self-reliance activities to challenge "warehousing” and Norwegian ambassador welcomes campaign.
- LIRS’s Ralie Deffenbaugh also reports on ExCom and USCRI.
- Columbus Dispatch reports on resettlement and warehousing.
November 10, 2004
- Support Anti-Warehousing Resolution in U.S. Congress!
- Geneva Update—ExCom learns a new word
- Land Conflict in South Uganda refugee settlements
- Press Round-up
- Warehousing—there’s now a course in it!
- Rights in Exile: New Verdirame/Harrell-Bond book
- Mailbag
September 24, 2004
- Lavinia Testifies
- Gearing up for Geneva
- 100th Endorsement!
- The Gatumba massacre
- USCR’s mission trip to Tanzania
- Peter’s Back from Chad
- Proud additions to the website
- Noted with pleasure
- Mailbag
August 17, 2004
- Australian Churches Take on Warehousing
- Warehousing in the News
- New Endorsements to Anti-Warehousing Statement
- Mailbag
August 4, 2004
- Sign-on Statement
- Survey Rollout and Media Work
- U.S. Congress and Administration
- UNHCR
- Other NGO Statements
- Site Visit to the Levant
- Upcoming Plans
Statement to End Refugee Warehousing
(Now including links to the endorsers)
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World Refugee Survey 2008 Coverage
“Warehousing Refugees: A Denial of Rights, a Waste of Humanity”
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"Development Aid for Refugees: Leveraging Rights or Missing the Point"
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