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Sudan: peace through education
Washington DC, 30 August 2010 – JRS has urged the governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan to commit themselves to a non-violent resolution of their differences, regardless of the outcome of the referendum on independence in January 2012. Moreover, JRS has called on the international community to sustain its support for the peace agreement.
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Central African Republic: new peacekeeping force requested
Rome, 18 August 2010 – The Central African Republic (CAR) has asked the UN Security Council not to withdraw UN peacekeeping forces from the country when the mandate for Chad and CAR expires on 31 December next.
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India: rumours of return circulating refugee camps
Bangalore, 23 August 2010 – Sri Lankan refugees should be clearly told that no steps will be taken to force them home until they are happy the situation is safe for them, according to JRS South Asia Director, Prakash Louis SJ.
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USA: Secure Communities programme rejected by Washington DC council
Washington DC, 30 August 2010 – JRS has welcomed the decision by Washington DC council, the first in the country, not to introduce the national “Secure Communities” programme which allows law enforcement services to share information on immigrant arrests with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Haiti: JRS urges different approach to humanitarian aid
Port-au-Prince, 19 August 2010 – On World Humanitarian Day, JRS called on national civil society groups, the government and international organisations to adopt a more inclusive and transparent approach in their aid programmes.
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International: united by commitment to help others
Geneva, 19 August 2010 – Today marked the second World Humanitarian Day to honour and celebrate the work of humanitarian workers.
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Sudan: Seventy-two teachers attend capacity building workshops
Nimule, 23 August 2010 – Seventy-two teachers will teach more effectively in 25 JRS-supported primary schools after each attending one of the three-day workshops on teaching skills organised by JRS for untrained teachers in Nimule, Mugali and Pageri districts in Magwi county, Eastern Equatoria state, Southern Sudan.
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Chad: child soldiers reunited with families
Abéché, 20 August 2010 – After months in a Transit and Orientation Centre (CTO), five former child soldiers have finally been reunited with their families.
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Thailand: JRS helps establish community centre
Bangkok, 26 August 2010 – At the beginning of the month, a group of ethnic Ahmadi asylum seekers finally opened the doors of their new community centre in the outskirts of Bangkok. The new centre is the result of a partnership between JRS and Ahmadi asylum seekers from Pakistan.
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Sudan: preparing for a peaceful 2011 referendum
Nimule, 27 August 2010 – In preparation for the referendum on southern independence scheduled for January 2011, JRS recently trained 12 community peace facilitators and three government and church representatives in Nimule, Pageri and Mugali districts, Southern Sudan.
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Sudan: head teachers and county supervisors receive training
Juba, 28 July 2010 – While school administration has slowly improved, too many teachers still lack the pedagogic know-how to help their more junior colleagues. Five years after the end of the two-decade long period, most teaching and administrative staff have only received minimal training.
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Sudan: oxen and ploughs help communities become self-sufficient
Lobone, 30 July 2010 – With the donation of two oxen and a plough each to three communities near Lobone district (payam), JRS has taken small, but important steps to promote sustainable development in Southern Sudan. In the last four months, the oxen have begun generating a living for the members of three Catholic chapels.
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South Africa: ubuntu has no borders
Pretoria, 17 July 2010 – In a clear message to South African society, JRS organised a march to demonstrate its commitment to counter xenophobic discrimination and violence in the country.
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Romania: falling through the cracks created by the Dublin Regulation
Rome, 27 July 2010 – The road to safety is increasing paved with obstacles for asylum seekers. Border crossings are more tightly controlled. Refugees, who long to reach Western Europe where they often have family and friends willing to help them restart their lives, are forced to apply for asylum in the first European Union country in which they arrive.
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Access to quality education
JRS works worldwide to ensure refugees are given an opportunity to gain access to quality education. In some cases this means building the schools, while in other it is about training teachers. In all cases, the ones that counts are the refugees.
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Detention
God created us free. Alternatives to detention are nearly always available to respect this freedom; it is up to states to put human rights ahead of narrow definitions of border security.
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Our Efforts in Haiti
Present in Haiti since the early 1990s, JRS was one of the first NGOs to react to the earthquake. It focus is to provide psychosocial support, emergency assistance and capacity building training to displaced communities.
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Promoting refugee integration
Helping refugees and other forcibly displaced persons build new lives with their new host communities
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Refugee women - responding to the needs of survivors
One of the major challenges JRS staff face is to identify refugee women who suffer or are at risk of suffering abuse and neglect. Victims of abuse often suffer in silence.
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Urban Refugees
Recently the balance between urban and camp refugees has shifted towards the former. Most of the world's displaced persons now live in urban areas. Although the quality of services and availability of jobs is much better, urban refugees face a myriad of obstacles ranging from xenophobia to detention. JRS works to ensure that the most vulnerable urban refugees do not fall through the cracks.
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International: cluster bomb ban treaty takes effect
London, 29 July 2010 – The Convention on Cluster Munitions takes effect on Sunday, 1 August 2010, when it becomes binding international law in countries around the world. In dozens of countries, campaigners from the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) will join UN agencies, governments and international organisations in events celebrating the swift entry into force of the most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty in over a decade.
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Six months on, Haiti slips off the international agenda
Port-au-Prince, Rome, Washington DC, 12 July 2010 – Six months after the earthquake disaster in Haiti, more than one million survivors continue to live in appalling conditions, with inadequate sanitation, limited access to services, insecurity and constant food shortages.
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Southern Africa: JRS welcomes bishops’ statement on violence against migrants
Johannesburg, 9 July 2010 - JRS welcomes the statement made by the President of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Buti Tlhagale, addressing the potential threat of xenophobic violence in South Africa.
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JRS launches new website
After nearly 12 months of planning and work, JRS International announces the launch of its new website.
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World Refugee Day: Tap into the potential of urban
On 20 June, World Refugee Day, Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) urges governments and civil society groups worldwide to tap into the resources of refugees and other forced displaced persons in urban areas. This not only promotes the self-sufficiency of the refugees but also contributes to the well-being of their host communities.
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Europe: Migrant detention harms all
Research report urges the introduction of safeguards to prevent unnecessary harm
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USA: Haitians give country best chance for recovery
Washington DC, 18 April 2010 — The development and reconstruction of Haiti will succeed only if the Haitian government, with involvement of the wider society, takes on a broader decision-making role in international bodies such as the UN and the World Bank, said two of the country's leading Jesuit priests.
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Malta: Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges refugees from Africa knocking at Europe's door
Rabat, 18 April 2010 – Pope Benedict XVI, visiting Malta on 17-18 April to commemorate the 1950th anniversary of the shipwreck of St Paul the Apostle on Maltese shores, made various references to refugees reaching the island as boat migrants in search of protection in Europe. Speaking to journalists on the inbound flight to Malta on Saturday (17 April) afternoon, Pope Benedict said:
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Europe: living in limbo, forced destitution of migrants
(Brussels, 18 March 2010) It is not fate, but the state policies that completely exclude certain groups of migrants from any official assistance and leave them in distress and penury. Access to housing, healthcare, education, welfare and work are especially worrisome.
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Haiti: 300,000 left homeless
(Washington DC) 15 January, 2010 - Three days after a devastating earthquake virtually destroyed Haiti's capital city of Port-au-Prince, Jesuit Refugee Service has at least 16 people on the ground in Haiti and working with the displaced on the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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