World Refugee Day
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... in Western Canada roughly half of
refugees seeking
solace from persecution are from just two
countries: Burma and Iraq.
But globally, the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq have produced nearly half of all the world’s refugees and dispossessed people in 2008.
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Advocacy groups, like Refugees International and Human Rights First, are continuing to eye the Obama regime to see what becomes of a pledge to “commit $2 billion to a new international effort to support Iraq’s refugees.”
http://www.theirc.org/special-report/iraqi-refugee-crisis.html
It was during and under the last US Presidency, that about 13,000 Iraqi refugees were accepted,.. the vast majority given entrance during Bush’s final year in office. Under Obama, this year alone, the goal is to accept close to 17,000 Iraqis.
Iraqs refugees' are now considered by some to be one of the fastest growing refugee crises in the world with thousands of Iraqis fleeing their home country every month.
Indeed, even displaced people from as far away as the formerly annexed area of Palestine are trying to get out of being internally displaced in Iraq, in which children, women and the elderly have died due to the lack of adequate healthcare Al Jazeera reports.
And rape, as in ANY war zone of any country involved in armed conflict(s) is also a huge persisntly growing problem and issue, adding an extra peripheral problematic unseen cut to the bloody open sores and cuts of war and its costs.
To add to this, recently Amnesty International reported that only one in five Iraqi cases of rape result in convictions in Denmark, and 12 percent in Sweden. Both countries have been cited by the internationaly respected human rights group for not doing enough to genuinely aid in the Iraqi refugee crisis.
And the frequently overlooked and neglected topic of rape as a shameful collorary of war for countries such as Iraq, the attached stigma alone means the rape crisis never ventures out alone during either night or day for examination or discussion by an unknowing populace.
The topic is: taboo. And for Iraqi's: too shameful.
Meanwhile, Australia's refugee resettlement program has been praised as "one of the best in the world".
Posted by mach1231
at 1:11 PM PDT
Updated: Saturday, 20 June 2009 2:16 PM PDT
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