In just six months, one of the world’s largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. But no one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in.

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Deep in the jungle of Jharkhand state in eastern India, at the end of a rutted track passable only by motorbike, a six-year-old girl named Sonia sat in the scorching midday sun, sifting jagged stones in an open-cast mine in the hope of earning enough money for a meal.

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Judy Rickard took an early retirement and a reduced pension so she could be assured of more time with her partner, a British citizen whose stays in the U.S. are limited to six months.

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In just six months, one of the world’s largest camps for war refugees has been carved out of the jungles of northern Sri Lanka, complete with banks, post offices, schools and a supermarket. But no one is allowed out, and hardly anyone is allowed in.

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Magistrate Freddie Forster of the Brikama Magistrate Court on Thursday 16th July granted bail to all 18 accused persons even though they were not in court. Their defence counsels adopted the previous bail application filed by lawyer Edu Gomez on 10th July.

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This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about immigration.

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Experian announces the introduction of a new nationwide IBAN BIC service to facilitate migration to SEPA for all Dutch citizens and corporates

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Google has released a new tool which it claims will make it simple and easy to migrate from Lotus Notes to its own web-based Google Apps system.

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Pakistani troops killed 13 militants in the latest clashes in the Swat Valley, the army said Wednesday, underscoring the region’s fragile security even as refugees displaced by fighting return home.

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Asylum seekers are now able to get access to free health care in Wales, even if their case to stay has been rejected.

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Representatives from Cold-War foes Cuba and the United States, which have experienced a slight thaw since Barack Obama assumed the US presidency, met for migration talks, the first such meeting in six years.

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As the UK Borders Agency announced plans to transfer up to 400 Nigerians to prisons in their home country the other day, we were treated to BNP proposals to “sink” boatloads of migrants.

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U.S. and Cuban officials on Tuesday held their first talks since 2003 on Cuban migration to the United States, a step the U.S. State Department said showed its desire to work constructively with the Communist island.

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The United States and Cuba plan to resume talks on Cuban migration to the United States on Tuesday, a U.S. official said, a dialogue that is part of U.S. President Barack Obama’s bid to engage the communist island.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – Talks between the United States and Cuba on immigration issues, suspended since 2003, are set to restart on Tuesday at the UN headquarters in New York, a US official told AFP.

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PRAGUE – Czech officials have criticized Canada’s re-imposition of visas on Czechs as inappropriate for a war ally.

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SHERGHAR, Pakistan — The Pakistani army on Monday began allowing people who’d fled its 11-week offensive against Taliban extremists in the Swat Valley to return to their homes, but the numbers who went were far fewer than expected amid fears the Taliban really hadn’t been vanquished.

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By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © 2009 Native Sun News July 13, 2009 Wednesday, July 8, was filled with ironies. I was seated at…

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Australian authorities have stopped a boat carrying more than 70 suspected asylum seekers, the latest in a string of such vessels intercepted this year.

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A boat carrying more than 70 asylum seekers was intercepted by the Royal Australian Navy yesterday, west of Christmas Island.

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Beneath the granite shadow of South Africa’s Quadu Mountains, the prayers for the dead infant are spoken in Shona, the language of rural Zimbabwe.

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The strain on immigration judges was similar to that on prison wardens and hospital physicians, a psychological study found.

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A new study has found Tasmania’s African refugees often regard police with suspicion.

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Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry says contact has been made with more than 70 asylum seekers on board a missing boat, but the vessel and its passengers have not been found.

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Greenpeace activists on Thursday rolled out a protest banner at an Italian coal-fired power station to underscore the need for G8 action on climate change.

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Pakistan will allow some 2 million people who fled an army offensive against the Taliban in Swat Valley to return home next week, as the region is now secure.

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Indonesian authorities have called off a search for boatload of more than 70 Afghan asylum seekers which disappeared near the island of Flores.

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The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul through the Senate said Wednesday he expects to have a bill ready by Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers than those who are lower skilled and is tough on future waves of illegal immigration.

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Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change.

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G8 leaders agreed Wednesday to bear the brunt of steep global cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, calling on a broader bloc of developed countries to reduce pollution by 80 percent by 2050.

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Almost 200 Iranian-Kurd refugees have been moved from a makeshift camp on the Iraq-Jordan border to a larger camp near Syria, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.

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Mogadishu — The Zanzibar refugees in the Somali capital Mogadishu are complaining bout with out health care and livelihood difficulties, one of the refugees told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.

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Nairobi — The wildebeest migration season is here once again, and the number of visitors is set to increase as the spectacle unfolds.

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OSPREY chicks have been fitted with satellite tags to allow birdwatchers to follow their 3,000 mile migration to West Africa later in the summer.

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The treatment of Mahmoud Abu Rideh over the past eight years is an indictment of British justice (”Terror suspect wins battle to leave Britain”, 4 July). Indeed it is questionable whether a system that allows individuals to be held indefinitely, not knowing of what they are accused, warrants the label “justice” at all.

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Rapid urbanisation is one of the main contributors towards the Western Cape’s high levels of crime with the province’s murder, aggravated robbery and residential burglary rates increasing the most out of all the provinces in the past 14 years, an Institute for Security Studies (ISS) researcher has said.

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Tanveer Ahmad, a cabdriver who died in an immigration jail in New Jersey in 2005, remained overlooked in the nation’s immigration snarl until his death.

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KUALA LUMPUR, July 4 (Bernama) — The authorities today began transferring almost 1,000 Bangladesh and Indonesian illegal immigrants held at the Semenyih Immigration detention depot to depots elsewhere in the country following a riot there by Myanmar illegal immigrants on Wednesday so as to facilitate repairs.

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Britain’s development ministry is to change the name of its key aid distribution arm in a major rebranding exercise.

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The Federal Government is rejecting reports it has struck a deal to use a casino on Christmas Island to house asylum seekers.

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allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience

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Greenpeace International on Wednesday criticized some major PC makers for backtracking on commitments to reduce hazardous substances in hardware.

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The Obama administration launched investigations of hundreds of businesses around the country Wednesday as part of its strategy to focus immigration enforcement on the employers who hire illegal workers.

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The flood of millions of Afghan refugees into Pakistan after the Cold War led to an explosion of extremism, while American leaders were too busy celebrating the Cold War victory.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is putting the federal seal of approval on California’s leadership in cleaning up global warming pollution from our cars, SUVs, pickups, and minivans.

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Canada may reinstate a visa requirement on Czech visitors after hundreds of Roma from the Czech state sought asylum there over the past few months, the Czech Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

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The United Nations Refugee Agency is to formally establish a full time presence in the French port of Calais.

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Sweden plans to use its “climate change miracle” to convince China and the United States to sign up to tough cuts in greenhouse gases at the Copenhagen summit to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

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The Tanzanian authorities must ensure that thousands of Burundian refugees who have been living in the Mbatila camp are not sent back to their country under coercion, as suggested by recent reports received from a number of refugees and organizations, Amnesty International said today.

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Nairobi — Hundreds of herders in North Eastern province are crossing the Somali border in search of water and pasture for their livestock, even as the security situation in the war-torn country worsens.

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