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Rights Groups Urge Kenya to Reconsider Closing Refugee Camps
The Kakuma and Dadaab camps are home to over 400,000 refugees and asylum-seekers
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Kenya Camps With More Than 400,000 Refugees to Be Closed Next Year
Announcement followed meeting between Kenyan President Kenyatta and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Grandi about the status of the Dadaab and Kakuma
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Doctors Without Borders Urges Kenyan Officials to Consult Refugees Before Closing Camps
The humanitarian group is concerned refugees living in the camps are not being heard
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Kenya Court Suspends Move to Close 2 Refugee Camps
Camps hold hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn neighboring countries
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Rights Groups, Residents Decry Kenyan Demand to Close Huge Refugee Camps
Authorities have ordered UN refugee agency to make plans to close two refugee camps that are home to more than 400,000 refugees, mainly Somalis and So
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Kenya Orders Closure of Two Refugee Camps, Gives UNHCR Deadline for Instructions
Dadaab, Kakuma camps are home to more than 410,000 refugees, many of whom fled conflict in Somalia
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Kenya Orders Closure of 2 Refugee Camps, Gives Ultimatum to UN Agency
The Dadaab and the Kakuma refugee camps in northern Kenya together host more than 410,000 people, a small proportion of whom are from South Sudan
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Rights Groups Urge India to Halt Plans to Deport Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar
Policed have told Rohingya refugees living in slums in Jammu city that more Rohingyas are to be rounded up and deported
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Relatives, Rights Groups Urge Probe of Cellphone Jamming Devices in Cambodia's Prey Sar Prison
Detainees have complained of memory loss and other health impacts from the devices in their cells
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Uighur Rights Groups Pressure Corporate Sponsors to Boycott 2022 Beijing Olympics
So far none of the big-name sponsors has endorsed the Uighur campaigners' calls for justice
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UN, Rights Groups Pan Malaysia's Plans to Deport Myanmar Nationals
Malaysia does not officially recognize refugees from any country, but authorities have typically allowed UN to issue them cards meant to grant them so
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Rights Groups Urge Boycott of 2022 Winter Games in China
Beijing blasts push for boycott, promising to 'retaliate fiercely' as others say the International Olympic Committee needs to make sure the principles
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Malian Women's Rights Groups Sue Government for Failing to End FGM
Activists say the case shows how difficult it is to change the practice in Mali
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Iranian Dissidents Urge Biden to Press Tehran on Human Rights, Democracy
State Department has not yet responded to VOA Persian request for comment on letter by 38 Iran-based dissidents
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Rights Groups Denounce China For Blocking Democracy Activist's Trip to US
Guo Feixiong on hunger strike after being stopped at airport
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Rights Groups Urge Zimbabwe to Drop Charges Against Journalist, Politicians
Charges are seen by some as a government effort to stifle critics
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Rights Groups: Kazakh Authorities Use Coronavirus to Smother Political Dissent
People's freedom of peaceful assembly, expression face more restrictive government measures during pandemic, activists say
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UN,/Rights Groups Urge Ethiopia to Protect Civilians
Ethiopia has warned Tigrayan forces they face military action if they don't surrender, weeks into a conflict that has left hundreds dead
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Rights Group Calls for End to Rohingya Prison' Camps in Myanmar
Human Rights Watch says conditions in those camps are getting worse and that government's recent efforts to 'close' them risk cementing Rohingya's sta
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UN Rights Experts Urge Countries to Stop Fueling War in Yemen
The multi-billion-dollar arms trade that is fueling the war in Yemen has turned the country into the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe
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UN Raising Funds to Help Curb COVID in Palestinian Refugee Camps
UNRWA is appealing for nearly $95 million to control the spread of the coronavirus among Palestinian refugees across the Middle East
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Rights Groups Slam Xi's Latest Calls to 'Sinicize' Tibetan Buddhism
Critics say Beijing's campaign for 'new modern Socialist Tibet' is just latest salvo in war on ethnic identity
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Rights Groups Call for Swift Response to Ethiopian Singer's Death
Oromia regional authorities said at least 50 people have been killed in the region following the death of a popular Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa
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Ethiopia Races to Stave Off Coronavirus in Refugee Camps
Ethiopia confirmed its first infection at the Adi-Harush refugee camp in the northern Tigray region/
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Aid Agencies Ramp Up Efforts to Tackle Coronavirus in Rohingya Refugee Camps
Measures center on Kutapalong refugee settlement in Bangladesh which, according to UNHCR, houses some 860,000 Rohingya refugees
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