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Nuevos Aires tras el exilio
(Short Story)
22-03-2006
by simon
Hace ya algún tiempo que me encuentro en la ciudad de Buenos Aires y me ha servido para ver muchos contrastes (comunes a cualquier país latinoamericano, pero también reargentinos).
Hablaré desde la típica mirada de una persona del común,...
A Country Where “Digital” is Just a Myth
(Opinions)
26-07-2004
by Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini
Sudan: since history can remember, this name in Arabic means “land of the black people.” Lately Sudan is not only land to black people but to Arabs as well. The biggest African country has been home to me for three months this year. From Italy, I...
A Letter
(Short Story)
27-07-2004
by Rare breed
Dear Refugee,
I have always wanted to ask you, how do you feel? Being forced to leave everything that you knew to be:
To be safe
To be real
To be right
To be just
To be yours?
How does it feel to go to a new place in which; it matters...
Child Refugee
(Poetry)
5-10-2004
by Mohammed Ali Asghar Shah
One out of twenty million;
I was a statistic.
Tattered tents, dusty plains,
Foriegn lands and burdened looks.
Had heard them saying
"If you can't do anything about them,
Kill them!"
My face reflected in mother's eyes.
Wonder'd why...
Haven
(Opinions)
29-07-2004
by Sardar Taimur Hyat-Khan
The sight of suffering humanity penned into refugee camps and deprived of the little self-respect that they had left over from their ordeal of death and destruction can be more of an opportunity than a problem. After all, what had they left...
Interview with a Young Activist
(Interviews)
22-07-2004
by aclam
Ann Nguyen is a Year 11 student from Sacred Heart College, Geelong VIC, Australia. She is one of the leaders of the Social Justice Committee at her school.
Amy Lam: Why are you interested in social justice/ refugee issues? What inspired you...
Land of my Birth
(Opinions)
19-07-2004
by Mwangi munyua
Perhaps I wouldn't claim to be an expert or much informed on refugees and refugee issues but what I have may be enriching to the debate on Refugees. I'm 19 and writing from Kitale, Kenya.
Although I don't really consider myself one, I could be...
Malta
(Poetry)
23-07-2004
by Mwangi munyua
Today we buried my sister.
She was only eighteen months old.
So well had she looked yesterday,
So full of health, life and joy,
So full of good cheer.
But a storm came last night,
On the bosom of my mother she lay,
With nothing but mama's...
My Life as a Refugee
(Opinions)
19-07-2004
by Prof. Alpha Thomas-Bangura
Nobody like me would have ever dreamt of running from my dormitory room at the Williams V. S. Tubman College of Science and Technology in Harper, Maryland, county of Liberia on June 1, 1990. This day, the day of heavy gun fire, pools of blood,...
Spoken Word: Home
(Poetry)
26-07-2004
by Tara Sachs
I have not been Here long
But I don’t think I will stay
Not that Here is anything short of peaceful
But Here is only distance
Here is not Home
Here is not Home, but what is?
Not what it used to be
No,
I remember when my home...
The Darfur Crisis: A Test for the African Union
(Opinions)
4-11-2004
by Mary Mureithi
Africa has since time immemorial been perceived as the dark continent and the myriad of problems that arise from time to time only seem to ascertain those sentiments.
The big question that arises is: can Africa solve its problems without external...
The Eternal Refugees
(Opinions)
3-08-2004
by Zuhra Bahman
(I acknowledge the hospitality of people of Pakistan and Iran for hosting Afghan refugees for so long. I acknowledge the hard work and financial resources that goes toward the improvement of the situation facing Afghan refugees world wide. I...
The Refugee Was Born
(Opinions)
22-07-2004
by Sindorela Doli
There are words that you never want even to hear or to exist, never mind to experience. One of those I experienced by myself, and I’ll tell you my story:
I was sleeping in the shaking of the bus, while driving on holed roads of northern...
The Smell of Home
(Poetry)
27-07-2004
by olawale
This is not the smell of home
This one that wafts into my nostrils
And into my senses
Definitely is not the smell of home.
It is the smell of a strange land
The smell of home long gone from my nostrils
But remains in my senses
And home is...
The Story of a Palestinian Refugee
(Interviews)
19-07-2004
by Riyadh Bseiso
This is the story of Saf-Saf, a small village in the north of Palestine during the British Mandate. This is also a story of Afif, a boy who lived in Saf-Saf before ‘al-Nakba’, or ‘the Catastrophe’ as it is known throughout the world, befell the...
What Home Feels Like
(Interviews)
28-07-2004
by Yara Kassem
They call them “the departed,” the Palestinian departed or the Palestinian emigrants: those ones who had to walk away from home to Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt in the year 1968, right after the tragic Arab defeat.
They call them “the departed,” the...
“No somos tan diferentes como se piensa”
(Interviews)
19-06-2007
by Damian Profeta
María: 19 años, colombiana y refugiada en Argentina
“No somos tan diferentes como se piensa”
Por Damián Profeta
A los 18 años, corriendo riesgo su vida, debió abandonar su país, alejarse de su familia y sus amigos y comenzar una nueva...
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