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Michelle Brané's letter on immigrant detainees in response to an article entitled "Getting Tough on Immigrants to Turn a Profit" has been published by the New York Times.
The Women's Refugee Commission's Director of Protection, Dale Buscher, wrote a letter to The New Yorker in response to John Cassidy's article, "Prophet Motive". Buscher points out that the "Islamic countries experiencing rapid growth" have more of their women participating in the labor force — a fact that Cassidy's article failed to account for.
Read the letter as it appeared in The New Yorker.
The Women's Refugee Commission joined 28 other international aid organizations in writing to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other House leaders urging them to restore funding for humanitarian assistance, which they drastically cut in the spending bill passed last weekend.
CNN International’s “Inside Africa” featured highlights from the Women’s Refugee Commission’s new Refugees with Disabilities report and an interview with Abdi Salah, a Somalian refugee who lived with a disability in Kenyan camps.
In a letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sarah Costa, executive director, talks about the need for clean cook stoves in refugee settings. Read the letter as it appeared in the New York Times.
In a letter to the editor of The Statesman, Emily Butera, program officer for the Detention and Asylum program, talks about the "actions taken to bring to justice a guard accused of sexually assaulting female detainees who were being transferred from the T. Don Hutto federal detention facility in Taylor to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport."
Read the letter as it appeared in The Statesman.
On this observance of World Refugee Day, we must note a troubling trend: the decline in the number of refugees who are able to go home.
In 2005, more than a million people returned to their own country on a voluntary basis. Last year, only 250,000 did so - the lowest number in two decades. The reasons for this include prolonged instability in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and southern Sudan.
Read more: The Secretary-General's Message on World Refugee DayIn a letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sandra Krause, director of our reproductive health program, talks about the ongoing needs of women and girls in Haiti. Read the letter as it appeared in the New York Times.
Dale Buscher, director of protection, and Lauren Heller, program officer, Women's Refugee Commission, have an article in the current edition of Forced Migration Review, which focuses on urban displacement. The article, “Desperate lives: urban refugee women in Malaysia and Egypt,” is based on research undertaken by the Women's Refugee Commission as part of its project on the links between livelihoods and gender-based violence.
Download: Desperate lives: urban refugee women in Malaysia and Egypt
In a letter to the editor, Michelle Brane, director of our detention and asylum program, and Wendy Young, executive director of KIND, talk about the needs of Haitian children following the earthquake in Haiti. Read the letter as it appeared in the Washington Post (It's the second letter).
RT @Refugees More than 293,000 Somali refugees have fled conflict, famine into #Kenya, #Ethiopia, #Djibouti, #Yemen since January last yr.
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