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April 11, 2013 - 
Phoenix Magazine
Seeds in the City

“Gardening in the desert is one great big grand experiment,” Greg Peterson says. The educator and urban farmer is instructing a group of gardening enthusiasts who’ve gathered for a citrus-grafting class at the new Root Phoenix, west of Piestewa Peak. 

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March 31, 2013 - 
Arizona Daily Star
Refugees get 2-wheeled help from University of Arizona student groups

Some of Tucson's newest residents now can pedal to work, the grocery store and school thanks to two University of Arizona student groups that collected donated bicycles and gear to political refugees.

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March 29, 2013 - 
KVOA
Tucson family reunited after daughters caught in Syria's civil war

The two-year civil war in Syria that killed 70,000 people and made refugees of more than 1 million people, hit close to home for one family in Tucson.

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March 27, 2013 - 
ITN
David Miliband: Why I'm stepping down as MP

Speaking on Wednesday, David Miliband explains why he is leaving British politics to run the International Rescue Committee refugees charity in New York. He says he struggled to make his voice heard as a politician in the UK because of media interest in his relationship with his brother Ed Miliband, who defeated him in 2010 to win the leadership of the Labour party.

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March 25, 2013 - 
The Telegraph
Angelina Jolie and William Hague visit Congo on anti-rape mission

The Hollywood actress and British Foreign Secretary visit a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of campaign to stop rape being used as a tool of war.

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March 25, 2013 - 
Channel 4 News
The challenge of ending warzone rape

Foreign Secretary William Hague and film star turned UN envoy Angelina Jolie have jointly launched a campaign to end warzone rape but, as Cathy Newman writes, there are many obstacles in the way.

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March 24, 2013 - 
Associated Press
Visas Slow for Iraqis Who Helped US War Efforts

Somehow the bullets that sprayed the car that Ubaida Mufrej was riding in with a group of Iraqi contractors didn't hit any of them, even though the driver had pushed through three armed men blocking a desert road outside of Baghdad that day in 2006.

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March 22, 2013 - 
KPBS
A Decade After War’s Start, Iraqi Refugees Are Transforming A California Town

SAN DIEGO — The Iraq War has been officially over for nearly a year and a half. But refugees from the conflict are still being admitted to the United States by the thousands, and many of those continue to settle in the city of El Cajon, east of San Diego.

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