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Balkars Mark 75th Anniversary Of Deportation. Dalai Lama 60 Years in Exile. What Happened to Migrant Caravans?


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union

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Balkars In Russia’s North Caucasus Mark 75th Anniversary Of Deportation

What happened to the migrant caravans?

Officials Announce Construction of New Facility in Texas to Handle Influx of Migrant Families

Migrant Families Arrive In Busloads As Border Crossings Hit 10-Year High

Nielsen says U.S. is working on migration crackdown agreement with Central America

Venezuela’s indigenous migrants struggle to preserve traditions

Pakistan’s Baloch community marks Cultural Day in the UAE

Arc of Prosperity and Phyl’s Blog independence supporters ‘fleeing’ Scotland due to Brexit

20th year of raising the Tibetan national flag in Northampton

Tibetan community to mark 60th anniversary of uprising with march, flag-raising

2019 Tibetan Youth Leadership Program in Washington, DC

Tibetans Restricted in Sichuan, Gansu Ahead of Uprising Anniversary

“The Future of Tibet, Heartland of Asia” exhibition and reception event in the Scottish Parliament

Tibetan PM in exile welcomed in Prague

Taiwan Will Welcome Dalai Lama’s Visit Says Ruling Party Secretary

Botswana’s Former President Set To Visit Dalai Lama in India

Dalai Lama On Time’s Cover Once Again at 60 Years in Exile

US Congress will continue to support Dalai Lama

Protesters Join Kurdish Lawmaker on Hunger Strike

Protest held outside Bristol City Hall to support Kurdish refugee on hunger strike

Belgian court: PKK not a terrorist organization

British officials join London Kurdish community to celebrate Newroz

Paris museum cancels concert by Western Sahara singer

Tradition or trafficking? Guinea-Bissau children suffer in Senegal’s Islamic schools

Yemeni refugees choose baboon-infested tent city over Saudi camp

Inside the El Salvador prisons where a ‘lost generation’ has been abandoned by mass migration to the US

It’s so dangerous to police MS-13 in El Salvador that officers are fleeing the country

Nauru defends treatment of refugee who self-immolated

Australia to send 57 refugees deemed a threat to island detention site for treatment

Panama slave descendants’ ‘congos’ recognized globally

In Albania, a unique Jewish history museum on the brink

Large share of diaspora paper vote goes to Conservative People’s Party of Estonia

Who were the “dipīši”? The beginning of a long Latvian post-WWII exile

Belgian carnival float depicting Jewish stereotypes condemned as anti-Semitic

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40 Miles From Auschwitz


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union

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Thousands of migrant children report they were sexually assaulted in U.S. custody

Net migration from EU to UK falls 70% since Brexit vote

South Sudan’s first migration policy takes another step forward

Complaints From Ethnic Minority Personnel ‘Disproportionate’

‘Worrying’ proportion of minority ethnic pharmacists suspended or struck off GPhC register

Heat-related illness affects ethnic groups disproportionately

Number of black and minority ethnic NHS staff being abused by patients rises to six-year high

Historical document reveals how British colonial government paid black soldiers less than white counterparts during Second World War

Celebrating Irish-American Heritage Month

A Mexican Hockey Player Looks for a Place to Lace Up His Skates

Gerber names 15-month-old Hmong American 2019 ‘spokesbaby’

Final refugee families to leave Nauru charged $16k for flights to US

Ahmed Ag Kaedy Was Exiled from Mali for Playing Music. So He Recorded His Album in Portland Instead.

Uyghur Community Starts #MeTooUyghur Movement To Find Missing Relatives in China

Colleges should punish int’l students who engage in threats, racial hatred and intelligence gathering for Beijing

Rally against Russia’s occupation of Crimea held outside UN headquarters

Becoming a Local Resident in Portugal – Some Practicalities

Trans asylum-seeker killed after U.S. deportation back to El Salvador

Vandals hurl smoke bomb at window of Oulu mosque

Live From America’s Capital, a TV Station Run by China’s Communist Party

Day of fasting in solidarity with Newport hunger-striker Imam Sis

‘Boycott Rugby World Cup’, former Samoa lock Daniel Leo urges Pacific nations

Bangladesh closes door to Rohingya refugees

Youth, indigenous peoples, migrants and refugees boost hope for human rights: Guterres

Tajikistan: Activist Forcibly Returned from Russia

Running From Bahrain’s Dark Side

Germany’s Brandenburg state to take in 60 Yezidi survivors of ISIS: MP

Toronto police probe online abuse of Tibetan-Canadian student leader accused of offending China

Month of Women came early … Dalai Lama urges women to take up leadership roles

Prague mayor to meet Tibetan PM in exile

Nepal Collecting Data on Tibetans to Curb Anti China Activism

40 Miles From Auschwitz, Poland’s Jewish Community Is Beginning to Thrive

Lombardy region in Italy discriminates against migrants on baby bonus, court

Karachi Bakery’s Sindhi owners forced to declare ‘We are Indians’

‘Half-Naked And Barefoot’: Chechens, Ingush Recall 1944 Deportations

Stalin’s Great Crime in the Caucasus

How can Ukraine’s Pension Fund collaborate with Russia against Crimeans forced to flee their homes?

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Rohingya Refugees at Risk From Looming Cyclones


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 21: International Mother Language Day

1944 February 23: Aardakh a.k.a. Operation Lentil: Soviet expulsion of Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) to Central Asia

1944 March 8: Mass deportation of the Balkars by Stalin’s Soviet Union

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Almost 100 Jewish graves desecrated hours before French march against ‘unprecedented’ anti-Semitism surge

Mauritania: a 360° view from the Mbera refugee camp

United Nations says Mauritania urgently needs funds to deal with ongoing refugee crisis

Underpaid and abused, Guinea-Bissau’s domestic workers seek protection

‘Man returns to his native Xinjiang and disappears’ — a story too common for the headlines

Stranded Saudi sisters fear for their safety in Hong Kong, as clock ticks on hopes for asylum

Minorities quit Bank of England as it fails on diversity

Tajik Opposition Figure Arrested After Return From Self-Imposed Exile

In Poland, the homeless and Chechen refugees form unlikely bond

Plucky Jim Ratcliffe, the grammar school billionaire who went to Monaco

Hundreds of Thousands of Rohingya Refugees at Risk From Looming Cyclones

Rohingya: killings should remind all nations of their responsibility to protect victims of mass atrocity crimes

58,000 new expats entered the workforce in Kuwait

A Tibetan-Canadian student was attacked online after winning student council elections. She thinks Beijing is to blame.

Fifty Syrian Refugees to Settle in Northwest Iceland

Sweden fails to cut number of ‘vulnerable EU migrants’

Third migrant dies in US Border Patrol custody in as many months

New migrant caravan forms as Mexican cities that border US keep swelling with asylum seekers

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More Likely to Be Sentenced


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 21: International Mother Language Day

1944 February 23: Aardakh a.k.a. Operation Lentil: Soviet expulsion of Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) to Central Asia

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No Porzingis, no Latvian Night for Knicks … what about Kurucs and Nets?

What’s it like growing up a Hmong immigrant in America?

Hmong: The Struggle of the Third Generation of Refugees over their Cultural Identity

Immigrants From Honduras and Nepal Are Suing the Trump Administration Over the End of Their Temporary Protected Status

Ethnic minority children in Birmingham more likely to be sentenced that white kids

Rohingya activists bemoan failure of Muslim countries to address Myanmar crisis

From Siberia To Freedom: The Odyssey Of The Czechoslovak Legion

Icelandic feast helps celebrate a piece of Spanish Fork history

Kathleen Hill: Basque celebrates its 25th anniversary and more

Refugee footballer Hakeem Al-Araibi arrives in Australia after Bahrain extradition case dropped

Three Syrians arrested in Germany and France for suspected crimes against humanity

Parents of 2-year-old Kurdish girl shot by police granted legal stay in Belgium

Kurdish hunger strike in Strasbourg on day 63

Denied Iraqi citizenship, graduates from Rojava miss out on jobs

Tibetan woman elected student president in Canada, Chinese students enraged

Tibetan-Canadian student politician, Uyghur rights activists come under attack by Chinese students in Canada

Protests at Canadian Universities Raise Concerns About Chinese Government Involvement

Miami Belarusians Held Rally To Commemorate Missing Politicians And To Support Charter-97

Russia orders arrest of Crimean Tatar Mejlis member for ‘violating its territory’ by seeking to #LiberateCrimea

ISIS marauders now endanger victims who fled to Canada

Two transgender women joined migrant caravan. Only one survived journey to San Francisco.

First stop for migrant kids: For-profit detention center

Inside The Largest And Most Controversial Shelter For Migrant Children In The U.S.

Behind The Border ‘Crisis’: More Migrant Families Risk Dangerous Remote Crossings

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All For Worse Degrees And Jobs


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 21: International Mother Language Day

1944 February 23: Aardakh a.k.a. Operation Lentil: Soviet expulsion of Vainakh (Chechen and Ingush) to Central Asia

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US sees limitations in reuniting migrant families

Feds add to security barriers across river from migrant caravan

‘We need people’: Donald Trump says he wants to see more legal immigration in U.S.

400 West African Journalists trained on Migration Reporting since 2018, latest in Guinea-Bissau

Dozens of Ethiopians drown on forgotten migrant route off shores of Djibouti

Battling for Hmong heritage in Vietnam

Final children to leave Australia’s detention centers on Nauru

Uyghurs Of Kazakhstan Commemorate Victims Of 1997 Violence In Xinjiang

Ethnic Kazakh Faces Immediate Repatriation to China After Fleeing Country

Britain Seizes $650,000 From Son Of Jailed Former Moldovan Prime Minister

Russian propagandist Kiselyov’s nephew jailed in Germany for terrorism in Donbas

Swiss prosecutors end money-laundering probe against Equatorial Guinea leader’s son

28 Haitians die when boat sinks off Bahamas

A small Arizona town wants feds to remove razor wire from the border wall that runs through it

Latvian diaspora get-together to be held in Edinburgh in April

Ethnic minority pupils get worse degrees and jobs, even if they have better A-levels

Study finds a dearth of mental health interventions for ethnic minority youth in the US

Foreign Citizen Detained In Kyrgyzstan On Terrorism Charges

How Norwegian war refugees changed Swedish politics

Canada opens doors to some 750 ex-slaves from Libya

From sports to work, Rohingya women face new roles in world’s largest refugee camp

Different country, same feeling: Madison Tibetan community celebrates the new year

Pro-Tibet groups targeted with ExileRAT in spy campaign

Finding Kurdistan, a book about growing up in America and being from Kurdistan

Two Canadian women flee ISIS pocket, surrender to Kurdish forces

Tent fire at IDP camp in Kirkuk kills four children

Kurdish-Iranian journalist wins Australia’s most valuable literary prize

Yazidi women who escaped ISIS now facing threats, harassment in Canada

Dennis Christensen gets 6 years in first Russian sentence of a Jehovah’s Witness since Soviet times

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Silver Lining


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

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Christian ‘beaten and threatened by Islamic extremists’ in hiding after UK deportation

UK issues visas to family of dying Pakistani man on compassionate grounds

Top Court Clears Way for Woman in Blasphemy Case to Leave Pakistan

Briton arrested in Somalia survives ‘jihadist’ razor-blade attack in prison

Latvian roots of world-renowned clown “Coco the Clown”

The Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Canadian Fiction

Archives of Uruguayan-Lithuanians arriving in Lithuania

Global push to free Bahrain soccer player in Thailand after extradition request issued

Hmong Americans Gain Political Representation

Muslim Uyghur survivors recount unspeakable horror in Chinese internment camps

Rohingya Refugees Create Music To Memorialize Culture For Future Generations

More than half of boys in UK young offenders’ institutions are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds

Baloch activists hold awareness campaign in London to highlight issue of missing persons

Island paradise of Curaçao becomes a living hell for Venezuelan migrants

Brexit day concerns for Scots EU citizens ‘at peak’

Burns in the USA: Bringing a Scottish tradition to America

‘We Have Succeeded In Surviving’: An Interview With Exiled Tajik Islamic Party Leader Muhiddin Kabiri

The Silver Lining of an Exodus: Bosnia Cashes In on Exit Fees

Dozens of migrants missing after 2 boats sink off Djibouti

Blatant racism by Azealia Banks against the Irish gets a free pass

New Archive Reclaims the Narrative of the Roma

Congolese children adopted in Belgium were trafficked after parents sent them to holiday camp, says federal inquiry

A Young Tibetan to Speak at 2019 Under 30 Global Women’s Summit

Tibetan community in exile honoured with Art for Peace Awards 2019

Hotspot of the week: Tibetan New Year

Lack of security, stability in Mosul prompts IDPs to return to Kurdistan Region camps

Chief of world’s Yezidis Mir Tahsin dead at 85

Body of late Yezidi leader repatriated from Germany to be buried in Kurdistan

Online Kurdish ISIS hunters fooled Dutch jihadist with fake wife

Climate change creates a new migration crisis for Bangladesh

New report reveals the Mediterranean’s rising death rate

Illegal Migrant Crossings Surge in Remote New Mexico Desert

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Most foreigners working


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

January 21: Martin Luther King Day

1788 January 26: Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day

January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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UK begins EU citizen registration amid uncertainty, stress

Italy’s Salvini slams France for migrant crisis: ‘I don’t take lessons on humanity and generosity from Macron’

Sex traffickers hold 20,000 Nigerian women and girls in Mali

Mexico screening for criminals in latest migrant caravan; Salvadoran gang member wanted in murder is nabbed

Study finds ‘alarming’ bias against minority ethnic candidates

Software Maker Oracle Is Accused of Grossly Underpaying Women and Minority Employees

Jonas Mekas, ‘godfather of American avant-garde cinema’, dies at 96

Estonians embezzled millions from Finland

Federated States of Micronesia consul seeks help for migrants trying to adjust to Guam life

Whatever the Basques did in Idaho, they clung to their unique culture

Irish nurses in Sydney hold demonstration supporting strike

Nicaraguan journalist flees to Costa Rica, fearing government threats

At Least 10 Australians Imprisoned in China’s ‘Re-Education’ Camp

Nashville Schools vote to add Kurdish to high school language class options

A world away from her native Tibet, she celebrates Losar — the Tibetan New Year — with traditional foods

Over 1,000 expats arrested this month in Oman

Most foreigners working in Slovakia are Serbs

Jordan’s PM: We need a more sustainable plan to help countries hosting refugees

Gruesome Laos deaths of Thai activists sends chill through dissident community in exile

Malta places poorly in expat safety survey

UN envoy: No prospect Rohingya refugees can go home soon

Libya: Nightmarish Detention for Migrants, Asylum Seekers

Chinese contribution to Guyanese literature

A section of Canadian Sikhs begins ‘Prove it or Remove it’ campaign

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Increasingly Looking for Work


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1788 January 26: Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day

January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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As new US-bound caravan grows to more than 2,000, Mexicans lash out

Plight of Migrant Children in Spain Prompts Alarm

Thousands of migrants set up camps in Paris as authorities scramble to cope

Saudi teen asylum-seeker fleeing alleged abuse by family arrives in Canada

Hundreds of Rohingya families flee India after deportations

Russia Detains Belarusian Escort Claiming Trump Secrets

Missing ex-Interpol chief’s wife wants asylum in France

Inside the GM plant where nooses and ‘whites-only’ signs hung

Autobiography from 1831 provides rare, firsthand account of a Muslim slave in America

1,000 strangers answer the call, pack funeral of N.J. Vietnam veteran who died alone

Nigerian gangs trafficking children into Ireland for sex

Stoicescu: Russia seeks integration in Estonia in words alone

Government calls on Lithuanian expats in UK to return amid growing hard Brexit concerns

Economic assimilation of the Famine Irish in America

Latvian Diaspora’s Involvement in the Latvian State Independence Renewal Processes 1989–1991

Litvaks, Jews in Lithuania and antisemitism

Fate of ETA prisoners divides Spain

Idaho’s rich past impossible to examine without recognizing Basque culture

‘97% drop in Tibetan refugees arrival to India from Tibet’

‘China is after us’: Uighurs in Pakistan report intimidation

New migrant caravan leaves Honduras as US extends border troop deployment until September

Migrants depart from El Salvador as new U.S.-bound caravan forms

Honduran officials threaten prison time for migrant parents who travel illegally with minors

Lao Migrant Youth Increasingly Looking for Work in China

Toto’s ‘Africa’ to play ‘for eternity’ in Namibia desert

Guyanese MP flees to Toronto after receiving death threats for voting against his own government

Over 1,000 Rohingya flee India for Bangladesh fearing crackdown

Carpenters in Sicily handcraft crosses to draw attention to ongoing migrant crisis

Trump administration took thousands more migrant children from parents

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Ringing in 2969 with Ottawa’s Amazigh


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

1788 January 26: Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day

January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Saudi Woman Fleeing Family and Homeland Avoids Deportation From Thailand

Muslim youth group cleans up national parks amid government shutdown

51 Kurdish migrants rescued after boat sinks near Italian shore

Latvian president nominates US-born MEP Karins for PM

Belarusians Receive Almost Half Of All Visas Issued By EU Countries

Forget the US and Asia, the top 5 countries for expats are in Europe and the Middle East

Three children remain in limbo on Nauru, but hundreds of adults still await resettlement

Fears for Australian Uighurs trapped in China’s ‘re-education camps’

Turkey abandons Uighurs in favor of Chinese investment

Too little too late: ASEAN’s role in the plight of the Uyghurs

Eight-year-old girl dies as Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon hit by extreme winter weather

Ringing in 2969 with Ottawa’s Amazigh

26 things English people learn when they move to Wales

Yazidi women in Europe resorting to suicide to cope with alienation and trauma

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Building Lives


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2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages

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Hopeless in Hong Kong: China’s Squeeze Triggers Talk of a New Exodus

North Korean envoy to Italy vanishes. Did he defect?

Turkish NBA star won’t join team on London trip because of ‘lunatic’ Erdogan

West Papua refugees flee Indonesian chemical Weapons attack

Lawyer’s fears for ‘innocent’ Scot Jagtar Singh Johal

NFL: League under scrutiny for lack of minority coaches

Why most new immigrants to Israel aren’t considered Jewish

Estonian MP Madison hands over money collected for repair of Crimea’s Eesti Tare in Kiev

Ghost towns of Latvia try to woo young expats back

Australia’s unwanted refugees are living with ‘nightmares’ while building new lives in the US

A Defiant Interview in a Jail Cell, Soon to Turn Into a Murder Scene

Rohingya refugees left stranded in repatriation purgatory

Brexit has already created more than 4,500 jobs in Ireland

Moving back to Ireland was one of the hardest things we’ve ever done

Brexit sends Britons seeking Irish passports up 22 per cent in 2018

Is Ireland still no country for young people?

Clara Ponsatí: I fear I’ll not be able to go home until Catalonia is independent

Ace Tibetan lensman wins second award for excellence in photojournalism

Photo Story: Tibetan Sweater Sellers in Jaipur

Dalai Lama Returns to Dharamshala, Congratulates Nancy Pelosi

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