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	<title>Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) &#187; South Asia</title>
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		<title>Dr. Gopal Krishna Siwakoti conferred Honorary Kingian Nonviolence Advocate for Promoting Global Peace</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2010/07/16/dr-gopal-krishna-siwakoti-conferred-honorary-kingian-nonviolence-advocate-for-promoting-global-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies of the University of Rhode Island, USA conferred Dr. Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, President of INHURED International  an &#8221;Honorary Kingian Nonviolence Advocate for Promoting Global Peace&#8221; amidst a special function organised at the Univertsity auditorium today. The Award, which was conferred for the first time by the University in recognition of advancing Martin Luther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REFUGEE REGIME UNDER SAARC: AN AGENDA FOR ACTION</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2010/04/02/refugee-regime-under-saarc-an-agenda-for-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, PhD Absence of legal framework The world is witnessing a grave humanitarian crisis of forced displacement due to unprecedented internal civil strife resulting in systematic and gross violation of human rights and humanitarian law. The Convention on the Status of Refugees-1951 is the commanding instrument to govern refugee situation worldwide. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refugees nearing 150 days at sea</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2010/02/17/refugees-nearing-150-days-at-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[254 Sri Lankan Tamil-speaking refugees have been trapped on a tiny boat in the port of Merak in Indonesia. It will be 150 days on march 10th. Currently No humanitarian agencies apart from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) are allowed to visit the boat. The IOM, which gets $12 million a year from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tens of Thousands of Rohingyas from Burma at risk of starvation in an unprecedented crackdown in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2010/02/15/tens-of-thousands-of-rohingyas-from-burma-at-risk-of-starvation-in-an-unprecedented-crackdown-in-bangladesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ARAKAN PROJECT PRESS RELEASE 15 February 2010 A new report released today by The Arakan Project states that an unprecedented crackdown by the Bangladesh government on Rohingyas from Burma is creating a grave humanitarian crisis for tens of thousands of refugees.  The report “Unregistered Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh: Crackdown, forced displacement and hunger” calls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal again asks Bhutan to take back refugees</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2010/02/10/nepal-again-asks-bhutan-to-take-back-refugees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 10th, 2010 KATHMANDU &#8211; With the 16th summit of South Asian heads of states just over two months away, Nepal Wednesday asked Bhutan to take back the Bhutanese refugees who have been languishing in Nepal for nearly two decades. Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal emphasised that the government of Bhutan must allow the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refugees International: INDIA &#8211; Close the Gap for Burmese Refugees</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2009/12/09/india-close-the-gap-for-burmese-refugees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Burma's other neighbors, India hosts a large and growing refugee population, the majority of whom are Chin ethnic minorities. India generally tolerates the presence of Burmese refugees, but does not afford them any legal protection, leaving them vulnerable to harassment, discrimination, and deportation.]]></description>
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		<title>The terrifying voyage of Burma&#8217;s boat people</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2009/11/24/the-terrifying-voyage-of-burmas-boat-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a formula for making a killing in times of crisis. Go to the south-eastern tip of Bangladesh, on the border with Burma, and buy an old fishing boat. It'll cost 100,000 taka, or about £900. Then budget 450 pounds, for rice and drinking water, and maybe another £450 for bribes. Then head off and trawl for clients among the most destitute communities in Bangladesh - a country so densely populated country and so poor that for Britain to be on similar economic terms it would have to have a population of 200 million with an average income around four per cent of what a Briton's is today.]]></description>
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		<title>Joint Statement Calling for the Protection of Displaced Peoples, Civilians and Human Rights in Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://refugeerightsasiapacific.org/2009/05/19/joint-statement-calling-for-the-protection-of-displaced-peoples-civilians-and-human-rights-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We, the undersigned, are disturbed by the deplorable human rights and displaced people’s protection situation in Sri Lanka resulting from the recent clashes between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that almost 200,000 civilians have been internally displaced due to the escalating violence in the region over the past two months. This exodus brings the total number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sri Lanka to over 500,000, making it one of the most acute IDP situations in the world. IDPs fleeing the conflict zone have not been permitted freedom of movement instead being forcibly detained in more than 29 camps, public buildings and transit sites in government‐controlled areas, in many cases separated from family members and without access to adequate food, water and sanitation, medical assistance and psycho‐social care, or protection for particularly vulnerable groups, especially women and children. IDPs also do not have access to human rights organisations or other civil society groups.]]></description>
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