Adam Doster, In These Times. April 30, 2008. For the Bush Administration, admitting that Iraq is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis disrupts the narrative that the war is winnable.
Mariah Blake, Christian Science Monitor. April 26, 2008. In Sweden, one town alone has welcomed more Iraqi refugees than the U.S. since 2003. Not for long.
Ali Al-Fadhily, IPS News. December 7, 2007. More than two million Iraqis, out of a population of about 25 million, have taken refuge in neighboring countries, but only a few have gained official refugee status.
Neta Golan, AlterNet. December 5, 2007. Under Israel and Bush's "solution", Palestinian refugees who had been expelled from what is now Israel could return, not to their homes, but to small, non-contiguous parts of less than 22% of their original homeland.
James Denselow, Comment Is Free. November 29, 2007. Truth is a casualty when governments and generals cherry-pick figures to support a partisan purpose.
Terry J. Allen, In These Times. September 5, 2007. From Bangladesh to New Orleans, environmental pressures have forced millions from their homes but no international treaty recognizes their refugee status.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 14, 2007. Megan McKenna: I wanted to scream out loud when John Bolton said that the United States had no responsibility for the more than two million Iraqi refugees who have fled the incredible violence in their country.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 6, 2007. Leah Caldwell: After 17 days of internecine fighting between the Lebanese army and armed groups in two Palestinian refugee camps, there is still no resolution in sight.
Francis M. Deng, MIT Center for International Studies. June 4, 2007. In countries that are acutely divided by racial, ethnic and religious cleavages and torn apart further by violent conflict, the assumption of national protection and assistance of internal refugees is largely a myth.
Dahr Jamail, Tomdispatch.com. April 24, 2007. The invasion and occupation of Iraq is producing what might be the most severe refugee crisis on the planet, but no one is noticing.
Dahr Jamail, IPS News. April 13, 2007. Fleeing death threats and death squads, Iraqi refugees in Syria speak of the frightening reality they escaped from in Iraq.
