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Search results for "refugee" ...
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The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens
The New Kids is a narrative nonfiction book chronicling a year in the life at Brooklyn's International High School at Prospect Heights, a vibrant public school that teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees from around the world.
Tags: immigrants; teenagers; Brooklyn; immigration; high school
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Death In The Desert
Exposing trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula -- a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. Crimes involved include, but are not limited to, extortion, torture, human and organ trafficking, and murder.
Tags: sinai; peninsula; human trafficking; africa; refugee; Bedouin; torture; extortion; organ trafficking
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Trouble on the Land
The story examines a massive agricultural project in Tanzania involving an Iowa-based company called AgriSol Energy. The investigation found tens of thousands of refugees living on the land AgriSol planned to farm -- land the company claimed was vacant.
Tags: refugees; agriculture; Tanzania; AgriSol
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Death in the Desert
"This story exposes the trafficking and enslavement of African refugees in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula--a lawless place ruled by Bedouin tribes. What CNN's Pleitgen found was not only trafficking and enslavement, but also organ trafficking."
Tags: African refugees; Sinai Peninsula; Bedouin tribes; human trafficking; enslavement; broadcast
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Witness to War
This first-hand account of conflict in region of Afghanistan and Pakistan reveals how horrific living and working in this region can be. This investigation reveals the “human cost of conflict, reality of life in refugee camps, examine how children are impacted by the instability, and discuss whether there’s any hope for the future”.
Tags: documentary; danger; devastation; distrust; civil war; war on terror; media; violence; journalists; death; disease; global issues; oppression
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Rohingya: A Forgotten People
This investigation reveals abuse committed by the Thai Military against Rohingya minorities fleeing from Burma. The Thai Military would intercept Rohingya boats with refugees aboard and tow them out to the middle of the sea and leave them without adequate supplies. Being without food and water many of the Rohingya refugees died, but the numbers are unclear as to how many people actually died.
Tags: Thailand; Myanmar; ocean; islands; human rights; Prime Minister; Abhisit Vejjajiva; boatpeople; Muslim; safety; persecution
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Asylum Seekers
Mexican citizens are surrounded by violence and drugs in their native country. Many are seeking to become US citizens and find the only way is to gain political asylum or going through business channels. The US government is denying many asylum requests because they believe the law doesn’t fully apply to victims of Mexican organized crime. Further, many of these Mexican citizens have been sent back to Mexico, where a number of them face torture and even death.
Tags: cartel; victims; cases; American law; Gutierrez; safety; family; immigrants; danger; refugees
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Cuban Pot Rings
“Cuban-run drug rings dominate Florida’s indoor marijuana-cultivation trade, which supplies the Eastern seaboard state with some of the most potent and expensive marijuana in the US. Court records and interviews with drug agents showed that up to 90 percent of the hundreds of suspects busted each year running illegal grow houses are recently arrived Cuban refugees”.
Tags: cops; police; law enforcement; crime; arrests; drugs; court; Central Florida
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"The Burmese Come to Houston"
Houston has become a magnet for refugees from all over the world. Recently, an increasing number of Burmese families are seeking shelter in the Texas city. The families are severely limited in their financial support and struggle with the small window of time they have to acclimate to a new culture due to the "outdated" and "underfunded" U.S. resettlement program.
Tags: Burma; refuge; refugee; Houston Alliance Agency; U.S. resettlement program; Interfaith Ministries
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Lost in Migration
This series investigated immigration consultants in Canada, who were willing to "cook up bogus refugee stories and say marriages of convenience are possible." "As part of the investigation, a multilingual team of reporters secretly shopped consultants by phone and, wired with hidden cameras, in person."
Tags: immigration consultants; immigration advisors; refugee; mismanagement;