Jan 25th, 2006 · Since Sept. 11, the U.S. government has broadened the definition of a terrorist group and what constitutes support for terrorism. Now, refugee advocates say this is wrongly denying hundreds of people asylum in the United States and could affect thousands more.
Jan 23rd, 2006 · David Montero, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, discusses the efforts to bring relief to earthquake survivors in northwest Pakistan. Montero says he has visited refugee camps in mountainous areas where mudslides have cut off road access -- making it hard to deliver food and shelter.
Jan 18th, 2006 · Cuban Americans in Miami are increasingly demanding the end of the "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy that allows the Coast Guard to send refugees back to Cuba if they don't set foot on U.S. soil. Cuban exile groups are starting a lobbying campaign that they hope will go directly to President Bush.
Jan 12th, 2006 · For more than two decades, Sudan has been embroiled in a bitter civil war between the central government and rebel guerrillas in the mostly Christian, non-Arab south. A year-old peace deal has slowed the fighting, but many who fled the region are facing new post-war threats.
Jan 10th, 2006 · Cambodian-born Andrew Thi committed crimes in the United States as a teenager. Now 30, he faces deportation to a homeland he barely remembers. Thi's story is told as part of "Crossing East," a radio series about Asian-American history.
Jan 4th, 2006 · Egypt says at least 600 Sudanese migrants and refugees will be returned to their homeland after being cleared from a squatter's camp by riot police Dec. 30. At least 26 Sudanese were killed as police ended a three-month protest over what the Sudanese saw as mistreatment by Egypt and U.N. inaction.
Jan 1st, 2006 · Human rights advocates demand a probe of Friday's fatal clash between Egyptian riot police and Sudanese protesters. The Sudanese refugees say they've been mistreated since arriving in Egypt four years ago.
Dec 30th, 2005 · The world's refugee population has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, led by returnees to Afghanistan and Angola. Some would-be refugees are trapped in their countries or in refugee camps, due to more stringent refugee rules in industrial nations.