- As the post-Khmer Rouge generation of Cambodians grows up, they’re producing a flurry of films that mimic the vintage style of the 1960s – widely considered the country’s golden era. Much of the revival is owed to educated filmmaker refugees who are repatriating to Cambodia from France and the United States and opening the country’s first film institutes at local universities.
- Hundreds of Somali refugees are being forced at gunpoint to join rebels fighting in northern Yemen
- Paddington Bear is launching a campaign to to highlight the British Government's continued arrest and detention of hundreds of child asylum-seekers in prison-like conditions.
- A disabled athlete who has won five gold medals for Britain was set to be deported to Nigeria after losing his legal battle to live in the UK.
- British Muslims feel a greater sense of patriotism than their counterparts living in mainland Europe, according to a study by the Open Society Institute
- Rather than living in rows of neatly pegged white canvas UN tents set up in fields as the public might imagine it, aid officials have revealed that more than 50 per cent of the planet's 10.5 million refugees are now battling to get by in urban areas.
- The proportion of the population that is foreign-born has almost doubled in the past two decades to 11 per cent, or 6.7 million people.
COMMENTARY ON TRAVEL, CIVIL WAR, SECURITY SECTOR REFORM, PEACEKEEPING, AND GENDER
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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