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REFUGEE

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SOCCER
Jul 16, 2023
Refugee soccer team breaking boundaries with globetrotting tour
Formed just months ago in Utah, Team SheBelongs aims to promote acceptance and change the global conversation surrounding refugees and displaced persons.
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JAPAN
Jul 14, 2021
Refugee Olympic Team delays travel to Japan due to COVID-19 case
An official with the delegation tested positive after participating in the team's camp in Doha.
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OLYMPICS
Mar 3, 2021
Kimia Alizadeh, Iran's only female Olympic medalist, hopes to compete as refugee in Tokyo
Iranian female Olympic medal winner Kimia Alizadeh has been granted refugee status in Germany and aims to compete as part the Olympic Refugee Team under a white flag in Tokyo this summer.
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PARALYMPICS / Summer Paralympics
Nov 27, 2020
Refugee team leader says 2020 Paralympics will send important message
Ileana Rodriguez hopes the team of up to six athletes will inspire refugees and asylum-seekers around the world.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
May 4, 2020
'If the virus gets in, it will spread like wildfire'
While authorities mull 'provisional release' for some refugees currently in detention centers across the country, the people on the inside say they receive little information on the novel coronavirus.
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MORE SPORTS
Feb 29, 2020
Ethiopia marathon runner Yonas Kinde aims for spot on Refugee Olympic Team
A runner who fled Ethiopia nearly a decade ago is preparing for Sunday's Tokyo Marathon with hopes of returning to Japan as a member of the Refugee Olympic Team.
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CULTURE
Jul 23, 2019
Miyavi is on a mission to change Japan's tune on refugees
In his lesser-known role as a refugee advocate, Miyavi, aka the samurai guitarist, asks that people look beyond the headline numbers before declaring Japan unwelcoming to asylum-seekers.
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SOCCER
Jun 7, 2019
Ex-Japan captain Makoto Hasebe visits Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh
Soccer player Makoto Hasebe, who serves as Japan's national UNICEF goodwill ambassador, visited a Muslim Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Thursday to call greater attention to the refugees' plight.
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 18, 2018
U.N. Security Council considers move to push Myanmar on Rohingya crisis, but Russia and China boycott talks
The U.N. Security Council is considering action to push Myanmar to work with the United Nations to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, although China and Russia have so far boycotted talks on a British-drafted resolution, diplomats said Monday.
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JAPAN
Jun 19, 2018
U.N. body offers Tokyo youth a glimpse of life in camps on World Refugee Day
On most weekends, the plaza surrounding the famous Hachiko dog statue outside Shibuya Station is thronged with people. However, the popular Tokyo rendezvous point last Saturday hosted an emergency tent where people in bright blue T-shirts tried to raise awareness ahead of June 20 — the 18th annual observance of World Refugee Day.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 8, 2016
The UNHCR Refugee Film Festival finds increased focus on Europe for 11th edition
The status of refugees and displaced people continues to worsen since the European refugee crisis first gained widespread attention in 2015. In the news refugees may be portrayed as powerless victims, but the tremendous strength they show in taking strides toward a better future is anything but. The U.N.'s Refugee Agency hopes to tell those stories through film.
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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2016
The Middle East must take the lead on refugees
The Gulf countries, despite their vast oil wealth, have taken in hardly any refugees.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 29, 2016
Nagoya High Court overturns rejection of Ugandan woman's refugee status
A high court in Nagoya on Thursday authorized refugee status for a 41-year-old Ugandan woman, overturning a lower court ruling that upheld the government's rejection of her claim.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2016
Europe's rule-of-law crisis
Hungary and Poland are the leading edge of a far-right agenda that has taken hold throughout Europe.
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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2016
Now Germany can take that smug look off its face
Across the industrialized world, the middle class is finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet and the losers of globalization are channeling their aggression into fringe politicians who know who's to blame. Germany is no exception.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2016
'Humanistanbul': World Humanitarian Summit
Something has to be done about the world's humanitarian crises and Turkey is leading the way.
EDITORIALS
Mar 18, 2016
Merkel's 'Black Sunday'
If German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen as less solid in her grip on domestic politics at home, then her ability to push or steer the European ship of state is similarly diminished.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 10, 2016
Introducing the complex refugee experience to Japan
The plight of refugees is dauntingly hard to comprehend for the majority of Japanese who have been brought up believing they live in a racially homogeneous nation. (Let's reserve the falseness of this belief for another story.)
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2016
Merkel flip-flop: don't let me be misunderstood
Germany's middle-of-the-road voters have arrived at the conclusion that Merkel should have known better than to open Germany's borders to all asylum seekers.
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COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2016
Bidding goodbye to Schengen
The Schengen treaty that allows EU citizens to move around without passports or border checks, is being suspended, perhaps forever.

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