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Byline: Edward Stourton Fr Rayan Paulos Atto showed me an elaborately decorated bronze and glass case mounted on the wall near the altar of his airy modern church in Erbil. [...]

Byline: Ian Evans Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Cape Town, South Africa -- In this tourist haven, arguably the most cosmopolitan city on the African continent, around 400 men, [...]

Byline: Anna Badkhen Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Amman, Jordan -- As though recoiling from her own memories, Khalida shrank deeper into her faded armchair with each sentence she [...]

CHOUDWAR (ORISSA): Salmina Digal remembers her grandfather quoting an aborigine proverb to tell her that to Kondhs, their land, its forests, mountains and streams, was as precious as their mother. [...]

Norwegian police and immigration authorities have raised security at a refugee center following an attack by dozens of men armed with steel rods, knives and other weapons that lasted only […]

The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed, has spread across the border into Chad, deepening one of the world's worst […]

For decades, whenever the topic of genocide has come up, the refrain has been, 'Never again.' Yet right now, the government of Sudan is engaging in genocide against three large […]

The United Nations issued a cautious report today dismissing as unsubstantiated Palestinian claims that 500 people were killed when Israeli forces invaded a refugee camp in the West Bank city […]

Burmese soldiers have killed at least five people and set fire to ethnic Karen villages in new raids on separatist rebels along Myanmar's border with Thailand, refugees said today. Thai […]

With television relaying images of Chinese police officers dragging five North Korean refugees from inside a Japanese Consulate compound in China, Japan protested strongly today, seeking to head off a […]

Israel challenged the United Nations today by once again blocking a proposed fact-finding mission to examine fighting earlier this month in the Jenin refugee camp, prompting Secretary General Kofi Annan […]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG): Corinne Momal-Vanian, Director of the United Nations Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing [...]

Summary: GISENYI (WESTERN RWANDA), 16 May 2012 (IRIN) - In the last few weeks fighting between government troops and 'mutineers' has ended three years of relative peace in North Kivu [...]

Summary: GISENYI (WESTERN RWANDA), 16 May 2012 (IRIN) - In the last few weeks fighting between government troops and 'mutineers' has ended three years of relative peace in North Kivu [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG): The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Representative [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland -- The following information was released by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue [...]

Bosnian Serbs stoned four buses today that were carrying 200 Bosnian Muslim refugee women on a visit back to their eastern town, Bratunac. Five people were injured, a spokesman for […]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: by Liesl Gerntholtz Iman Obeidi became famous in March when she burst into the Rixos Hotel in [...]

SKOPJE, Macedonia _ In an abrupt overnight operation, the Macedonian government bused an estimated 45,000 Kosovo refugees out of a filthy, disease-ridden border crossing early Wednesday, separating families and bringing [...]

GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The U.N. refugee agency said it was outraged that some European countries were forcing Iraqi Christians to return home given the violence against the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the U.S. Department of State: Dear Friends and Colleagues: Each year, governments, international and non-governmental organizations, and others in civil society mark [...]

Byline: OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Nov 09, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Canada will continue to be a global leader in the fight against anti-Semitism, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney [...]

Jerusalem -- The following information was released by Human Rights Watch: Israel's Knesset should reject proposed legislation that would weaken the country's vibrant civil society, Human Rights Watch said today. [...]

Jun 23, 2010 (Human Rights Watch/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX) -- As told by Meghan Rhoad, women's rights researcher: Nasra, a petite Somali woman wearing a navy blue hijab […]