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THAILAND: Activists call for greater refugee protection
13 September 2012
(IRIN
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Thailand's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers is inadequate, with those outside designated refugee camps risking deportation, say activists and rights groups.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96298/THAILAND-Activists-call-for-greater-refugee-protection
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HEALTH: The "unfinished business" of lowering child mortality
13 September 2012
(IRIN
),
In 1990, an estimated 12 million children around the world died under age five; by 2011, that figure had dropped to 6.9 million. The message, from a new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), is that with greater commitment to child survival from governments and their partners, these figures can go lower still.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96300/HEALTH-The-unfinished-business-of-lowering-child-mortality
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ASIA: Too much water lost to urban leaks
12 September 2012
(IRIN
),
South and Southeast Asia are home to 60 percent of the world’s population but have only 36 percent of its water resources - a situation likely to be exacerbated by population growth, rapid urbanization, industrialization, environmental degradation, groundwater overuse and climate change unless urgent remedial action is taken, say experts.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96290/ASIA-Too-much-water-lost-to-urban-leaks
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NEPAL: Ambulance service “inadequate”
10 September 2012
(IRIN
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Nepal’s fledgling ambulance service is in need of urgent support, say health experts, particularly in the area of trained paramedics.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96275/NEPAL-Ambulance-service-inadequate
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HEALTH: Asia fails to take up rotavirus vaccine
7 September 2012
(IRIN
),
Most countries in Asia have yet to make the rotavirus vaccine part of their national immunization programme (NIP), despite a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to do so.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96259/HEALTH-Asia-fails-to-take-up-rotavirus-vaccine
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BANGLADESH: More data needed on abandoned children, trafficking
6 September 2012
(IRIN
),
Children in Bangladesh who have been abandoned by their parents are vulnerable to traffickers, but tackling the problem is hampered by the lack of data on missing children, say aid workers.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96250/BANGLADESH-More-data-needed-on-abandoned-children-trafficking
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NEPAL: Bureaucracy holds up climate adaptation finance
5 September 2012
(IRIN
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A tortuous planning process in Nepal is preventing climate adaptation funding - earmarked under the country’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) - from reaching local communities, experts say.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96242/NEPAL-Bureaucracy-holds-up-climate-adaptation-finance
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In Brief: Chins denied religious freedom in Myanmar
5 September 2012
(IRIN
),
Religious freedom for Myanmar’s 500,000 ethnic Chins is being denied, says a new report by the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96244/In-Brief-Chins-denied-religious-freedom-in-Myanmar
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PAKISTAN: IDPs escape conflict - not memories
5 September 2012
(IRIN
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For the first few months, Anayata Bibi, a 35-year-old widow who fled fighting in the northwestern tribal region of Pakistan to live in the Jalozai refugee camp 35km southeast of Peshawar, barely spoke to anyone, and would not leave her tent. In bouts of anger, she would hit her four children.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96247/PAKISTAN-IDPs-escape-conflict-not-memories
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SRI LANKA: Refugees in India reluctant to return
4 September 2012
(IRIN
),
More than three years after the end of Sri Lanka’s 1983-2009 civil war, most Sri Lankan refugees in India say they would rather not return, citing economic hardship and concern over human rights abuses.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96233/SRI-LANKA-Refugees-in-India-reluctant-to-return
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