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Newsroom 		Ethiopia: workshop on gender equality inspires behaviour change
Addis Ababa, 02 February 2012 – An inspirational workshop has provided a group of refugees and asylum seekers in Ethiopia with an appreciation of gender roles and equality as a basis to work towards behavioural change.
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Newsroom 		Burundi: cultivating the seed of quality education
Rutana, 02 February 2012 – Quality education for children in primary school in Rutana is now a reality, according to a Jesuit Refugee Service Burundi statement marking the end of a two-year primary education project.
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On Assignment 		Ecuador: invisible Colombian refugees, discrimination and an uncertain future
Quito, 02 February 2011 – Javier González* was teaching his nine-year-old son Miguel how to play chess when Miguel's mother, Rosa, interrupted their game to ask him what had happened at school today.
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Praying with refugees 		Praying with Refugees in Congo
(Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo) February 1, 2012 — About two million people have been internally displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by armed conflicts. The situation here is characterized by chronic and rampant sexual and gender-based violence against women and girls.
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Newsroom 		Ukraine: Iraqi children granted full citizenship
Kiev, 26 January 2012 – Two young Iraqi girls were granted full citizenship status in Ukraine, in what JRS country director David Nazar SJ called a "precedent setting case".
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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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