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51st Aid Worker Killed in Eastern Chad
Source: VOA News

The U.N. refugee agency reports a Chadian colleague working in eastern Chad was killed in an ambush during the weekend. The UNHCR says dozens of humanitarian aid workers have been killed in eastern Chad this year.

Denmark deports group of Iraqis
Source: BBC News

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Amnesty International have criticised the Danish government's policy of sending the Iraqi refugees home. They argue that the situation is still too unstable in several regions.

Baloch insurgents involved in target killings going underground: FC IG
Source: Daily Times

QUETTA: Baloch insurgents involved in target killings have started to leave Quetta and go underground following the "successful deployment" of the Frontier Corps (FC) in the provincial capital, Balochistan FC chief Major General Saleem Nawaz has said.

Roadside bomb kills three Afghan aid workers
Source: alertnet.org

A roadside bomb killed three Afghan aid workers who were working alongside the United Nations refugee agency in Afghanistan's northern Jowzjan province.

Refugee's stop, don't settle - Those fleeing Somalia must move on

TAIZ, Yemen | "This is the first food I've eaten in four days," Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17 year old Somali girl says while opening a packet of high energy biscuits from the U.N. World Food Program (WFP).

Iraqi "Palestinians" find refuge outside the Arab world
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The UNHCR keeps trying to get Arab nations to accept them, and they are consistently rebuffed. (Syria, Jordan and other Arab nations have taken in well over a million Iraqi refugees, but refuse to take these people.

Human Tide of Misery Flees the Anarchy of Somalia
Source: insidesomalia.org

As the world follows the escapades of the country's pirates, civilians are fleeing the anarchy on land, creating the world's biggest refugee camp.

"Change" is easier said than done at UNHCR
Source: Global Post

In April 2006, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) faced a crisis. Funding pledged by international donors was so low that the organization no longer had enough cash to pay salaries.

Struggling to change UNHCR
Source: Global Post

Explaining why a top recruit of the High Commissioner for Refugees recently quit. . . . Although the UNHCR was awarded two Nobel Prizes for Peace over a 40-year span of protecting refugees, it faces a world today that is dramatically different from its conception in 1950.

Kidnapped UN aid worker released in Pakistan
Source: The Times

An American UN worker abducted more than two months ago has turned up unharmed alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading "Help me, help me".

India is Involved in John Solecki's Kidnapping
Source: http://www.pakspectator.com/india-is-involved-in-j

Euripides said: "Whom the Gods destroy, they first make mad." Just when one would have thought that India would have focus on its own homegrown terrorism and would work with United Nations and its neighboring countries to give the self-determination right to fractious and dispute …

'Only 200' missing, admits Pakistan
Source: The News is NowPublic.com

The fate of missing persons has come into limelight after a terror group Baloch Liberation United front abducted John Solecki, chief of the UN Human Rights Commission in Quetta.

UN's Solecki: a politico holds the key
Source: The News is NowPublic.com

As the kidnapping of John Solecki enters its 19th day, it is almost certain his kidnappers will listen to Hyrbyair Marri, a former government education minister in Baluchistan.

Terror group spurns talk offer as Pak minister lies
Source: The News is NowPublic.com

The abductors of John Solecki, 49, the UN High Commission for Refugees in Balochistan have spurned the talk offer, saying Pakistan home minister Rahman Malik was lying about the missing persons.

Oil-for-food scam minister lies about missing persons
Source: The News is NowPublic.com

Pakistan government minister who became rich and powerful by being involved in the infamous oil-for-food scam is denying reports about missing persons abducted by Pakistan's infamous ISI and Military Intelligence.

UN oversimplifies as fresh atrocities against civilians begin
Source: The News is NowPublic.com

The UN analysis of the situation in Baluchistan is oversimplified. Though poverty is definitely an issue, people there believe it has more to do with politics since their resource-rich country was occupied by Pakistan against their wishes in March 1948.

US media blasted for ignoring Solecki's abduction
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A young investigative Baloch journalist is shocked why the US media have not come to Quetta to cover the John Solecki abduction story. Solecki is the chief of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and was abducted on February 2.

Solecki: Pakistan kidnappers extend deadline
Source: Times of India

The Baluch kidnappers holding John Solecki, chief of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in the restive Baluchistan province, have extended the deadline for the government of Pakistan to concede to its demands.

Forget Pakistan, free Solecki

Pakistan and its tuberculosis-ridden and alcoholic leader, Muhammad Ali Jinnah --an MI6 agent-- can both burn in hell and long live Baluchistan, but please free John Solecki immediately, the Baluch diaspora is urging the kidnappers of the senior-most UN official in Quetta.

Baluch abductors urged to free UN man

One man harmed unjustly is an affront to 6.75 billion humans that call Mother Earth their home. I am, totally what the Baluch call, mayareeg. This means feeling publicly embarrassed.

Pakistan fighting could uproot 600,000 people - U.N.
Source: alertnet.org

Fierce fighting in Pakistan's border area with Afghanistan could soon drive more than 600,000 people from their homes, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said.

Kidnapped American our blood and bone, say Baluch

As consensus still remains intact it was an inside job of the infamous Inter Services Intelligence, to err on the side of caution two US-based Baluch organizations have called for the immediate release of John Solecki. The DC-based American Friends of Baluchistan has appeale …

U.N. readies for 150,000 to flee Sri Lanka war zone
Source: Reuters

More than half the 250,000 civilians now trapped in Sri Lanka's war zones may soon flee their homes and require international assistance, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.

Ki-Moon urged to end rape of Baluchistan

LONDON: A London-based human rights organization has approached the United Nations secretary-general to end the illegal detention of Baloch women and the sexual crimes committed against them by the Pakistani Army in Gestapo-style military dungeons.

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