"A willful state of denial" [This Week's Voices]

Photo: Peter Biro/The IRC

- NPR's Morning Edition: Michael Kocher says the Administration and Congress are in a "willful state of denial" about the Iraq refugee crisis

- KCBI TV, Boise  Leslye Boban says “[Iraqi] refugees coming into the United States are coming because they don't have any other solution.”

- The New York Times: Alyoscia D’Onofrio responds to a front page article about widespread rape that is terrorizing women in Congo   

- The Arizona Republic: An apartment fire in Phoenix forces 20 refugees from homes, destroys personal items, legal papers

- The Arizona Republic: IRC volunteer Lori Lause says refugees arrive "with nothing more than a toothbrush. But help from IRC volunteers can ease the voyage.”

- The Philadelphia Inquirer: Jenny Perlman Robinson writes of a recent Women’s Commission visit to Uganda in a letter to the editor: “These young people want to help themselves, but can't do so without support.”