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Refugees Magazine Issue 101 (Asylum in Europe) - Persecution complex
1 Sep 1995 In several European countries, people persecuted by groups and organizations other than the state are not recognized as refugees - no matter how bad the persecution. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 101 (Asylum in Europe) - Summer of sadness
1 Sep 1995 The misery goes on in former Yugoslavia, where more than 350,000 people were driven from their homes between July and mid-September. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 101 (Asylum in Europe) - Trafficking in human lives
1 Sep 1995 Refugees and illegal migrants trying to enter Western Europe via the CIS and Central Europe are falling prey to unscrupulous people smugglers. As well as paying large sums of money, some end up paying with their lives. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 101 (Asylum in Europe) - Welcome to limbo
1 Sep 1995 Many asylum-seekers never get beyond the transit zones at Europe's international ports, railway stations and airports, where they are held pending an initial assessment of their asylum claims. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 101 (Asylum in Europe) - Protection of, or protection from, refugees?
1 Sep 1995 The "safe third country" concept - in which asylum-seekers judged to have transited a safe country are returned to it - is fine in theory, but still far from perfect in practice. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 101 (Asylum in Europe) - Asylum under threat
1 Sep 1995 Measures imposed by European governments to stem the tide of illegal immigrants are threatening the very foundations of asylum. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - Foster families in Rwanda
1 Jun 1995 Believing that unaccompanied children are better off living with foster parents than in institutions, Food for the Hungry International set up a programme to support those who support children. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - Two steps forward, one step back
1 Jun 1995 Providing education and skills-training for Afghan women refugees was an uphill struggle. Slowly and surely attitudes softened, but how much survives the return to Afghanistan remains to be seen. -
Refugees Magazine Issue 100 (Refugee women) - Spacing children, preventing AIDS
1 Jun 1995 An ambitious reproductive health programme for Rwandese refugees in Tanzania targets everything from safer childbirth to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.