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April 10, 2013
By The IRC
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Hard living in the city


April 10, 2013
By Peter Biro
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Iraq continues to struggle with internal displacement crisis

A decade after invasion, over 1 million Iraqis still can’t return home
Baghdad
06 Mar 2013

Ten years after the invasion, more than 1 million citizens remain displaced inside Iraq, including some 350,000 in Baghdad, the International Rescue Committee reports. “This is a major displacement crisis,” says Mike Young, who oversees the IRC relief programs in the Middle East. “Many of these Iraqis are living in prolonged limbo.”
 

Sarah Wayne Callies: It can be done


February 19, 2013
By Sarah Wayne Callies

The mud is an almost constant unpleasant companion for refugees at Domiz camp, northern Iraq, in the winter. 

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A first in South Sudan’s capital: A resource for “urban refugees”


February 19, 2013
By Terah Edun
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Sarah Wayne Callies: Frying pans and fires


February 15, 2013
By Sarah Wayne Callies
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The untold story of urban refugees


January 24, 2013
By The IRC

Lanier Lovely, 18, pictured with her son Lovinsky in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Kenya: Refugees under suspicion, ordered into camps


January 23, 2013
By Jerotich Seii Houlding

A Somali family in Nairobi's Eastleigh neighborhood. Incidents of police harassment, extortion and arbitrary arrest involving refugees have increased since the Kenyan government issued a directive last month ordering refugees living in cities to relocate to camps.

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Empowering Kenya's new generation

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Empowering Kenya's new generation
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November 14, 2012
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The odds are stacked against young people in Kenya. Three-quarters of those under 35 do not have jobs. Poverty and poor education have left 1.3 million youths unemployed - and studies suggest women are five times more likely to struggle to find work than men.

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