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Newsroom 		International: JRS publishes Strategic Framework 2012-2015
Rome, 25 January 2012 – After extensive consultation throughout last year, today the Jesuit Refugee Service published its Strategic Framework for 2012-2015, outlining broad goals, values, strategies and expected outcomes for the next four years. The 24-page booklet seeks to provide an inspirational framework and set overarching strategies for all ten JRS regions to meet the challenges of working with refugees on the edges of humanity.
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Newsroom 		South Sudan: last group of JRS-supported teachers graduate
Nimule, 18 January 2012 – The last group of teachers officially graduated from their training programme in December as the Jesuit Refugee Service prepares to wind down activities in South Sudan.
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Newsroom 		Ethiopia: activities underway in Dollo Ado, more to start soon
Dollo Ado, 18 January 2012 – Towards the end of 2011, JRS officially opened the first phase of its latest project, offering long-term assistance to Somali refugees in Melkadida camp, Dollo Ado, through education services, psychosocial counselling, and sports and recreational activities for young people. JRS seeks to provide tangible skills to Somali refugees in Melkadida camp ensuring their time spent in exile is not wasted.
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Newsroom 		Haiti: two years on, from mourning to anger
Port-au-Prince, 17 January 2012 – Two years after the earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January 2010 and cost the lives of more than 250,000 persons, civil society groups including JRS Haiti, have participated in public demonstrations expressing their dissatisfaction with their living conditions and the current situation in the country.
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Newsroom 		Philippines: urgent appeal for emergency assistance to the displaced in Mindanao
Mindanao, 16 January 2012 – Just days before Christmas, more than 100,000 families' holiday season and hopes for the new year were washed away with the flash flood that struck the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines.
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Praying with refugees 		Praying with Refugees from Colombia
(Caracas) January 1, 2012 — Thousands of Colombian women and men are forced to cross their border to find protection. Their flight marks the beginning of a long and difficult journey to find peace and dignity. Their lack of knowledge about refugee rights reduces the likelihood their applications will be accepted by their host countries.
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Newsroom 		Philippines: flash flood kills thousands
Mindanao, 28 December 2011 – More than 380,000 people are suffering from floods wrought by storm 'Sendong' in the southeast of the Philippines. At least a thousand have died with another thousand still missing.
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Letters 		International: a message of joy in the midst of fear
Rome, 22 December 2011 – "I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people. Today unto us a child is born; he is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2, 10-11).
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Newsroom 		Europe: EU states need not detain migrants, says JRS report
Brussels, 20 December 2011 – Detaining migrants is unnecessary because more humane non-custodial alternatives exist, according to the latest JRS report, From Deprivation to Liberty.
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Newsroom 		Ethiopia: educational and recreational visit renews hope
Addis Ababa, 16 December 2011 – With information and care, there is every reason to believe the number of women with fistula could be drastically reduced. This is what the more than 100 students from the JRS Refugee Community Centre (RCC) in Addis Ababa heard on a recent visit to a rehabilitation centre for women on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital.

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