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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne welcome Syrian refugees Kevork Jamkossian and his daughter Madeleine who were among 163 Syrians to arrive in Canada on 10 December, the first of 10,000 expected before the end of 20

Five rare humanitarian success stories of 2016 (plus caveats)

29 December 2016

It’s hard to see the silver lining around a year as awful as 2016, but a few good news stories did emerge

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Canada’s refugee success story
14 July 2016
Nearly half of the 25,000 Syrian refugees resettled in Canada through a fast-track programme were privately sponsored. It appears to be working.
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Look back and learn: Refugees in 1938
18 November 2015
Gathered on the calm shores of Lake Geneva, a group of 32 political representatives failed to reach agreement on how to accommodate hundreds of thousands...

US bombing of ISIS "kills hundreds of civilians"
3 August 2015 Analysis
UN chief calls for protection of migrants amid financial crisis
29 October 2008 News
No room for complacency about bird flu - experts
27 October 2008 News

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Climate change may drown cities
24 October 2008
People in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, prefer to commute in three-wheeled autorickshaws, taxis and buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG), in their...
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Forced to flee
23 October 2008
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are forced to flee their homes to escape war or natural disasters. Displaced within their own country and...
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Climate change's threat to water needs more study
21 October 2008
Models to predict the impact of climate change on potable water and the management of wastewater are needed to deal with the expected increase in...
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"Hot topic" - special journal issue on climate and migration reviewed
29 September 2008
The October issue of the Forced Migration Review (FMR), a journal published three times a year by Oxford University's Refugee Studies Centre, is a 38-article...
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Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food
23 September 2008
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has called on governments to draw up national laws obliging them to take action when...
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Food wasted is water lost
29 August 2008
To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria,...

Cyclones, storms and hurricanes
21 August 2008 News
What we are doing about climate change
5 August 2008 News
Food aid on the back burner as WTO talks collapse
4 August 2008 News
What climate change does - The 2nd in a three-part series
31 July 2008 News
How climate change works
29 July 2008 News
Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
28 July 2008 News

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