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April 29, 2013 - 
Foreign Policy
The FP Power Map

International Rescue Committee president, George Rupp, is listed as one of the "500 most powerful people on the planet."

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April 17, 2013 - 
Kaiser Health News
As Refugees Settle In, Health Care Becomes A Hurdle

Sitting at the kitchen table in her modest apartment, Jaya Laxchi Rai recounted her family’s journey: fleeing from ethnic persecution in Bhutan, living in a Nepali refugee camp and arriving in the U.S. almost two years ago.

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April 11, 2013 - 
The Seattle Times
Now beauty surrounds Iraqi immigrant, not fear

An Iraqi refugee has found new life as a security guard at Chihuly Garden and Glass.

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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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