Amnesty International: World governments failing Iraqi refugees

June 15, 2008

Amnesty International Press Release
June 15, 2008

The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting a false picture of the security situation in Iraq when the country is neither safe nor suitable for return, Amnesty International said today.

In its new report, Rhetoric and reality: the Iraqi refugee crisis, which is based on recent research and interviews with Iraqi refugees, the organization said that the world’s richest states are failing to provide the necessary assistance to Iraqi refugees, most of whom are plunged in despair and hurtling towards destitution.
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The Independent: “Iraqi refugee crisis grows as West turns its back”

June 15, 2008

With millions displaced, foreign countries take increasingly hardline stance

By Kim Sengupta
Sunday, 15 June 2008
The Independent (U.K.)

…The Iraqi diaspora is now one of the largest in modern times, with more than two million people fleeing abroad. But the ferocious strife and the breakdown in law and order have led to another wave of about 2.7 million fleeing their homes but unable to escape the country. Many of these have moved to Baghdad, putting further strain on a shattered infrastructure and adding to the city’s sectarian tensions. The situation in terms of numbers and conditions for the displaced people has deteriorated dramatically in the past two years, Amnesty [International] claims.

Full article @ The Independent

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