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Source: IRIN Umpiem is one of about a dozen refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border for displaced persons who have fled poverty as well as ethnic, religious and political persecution. The camp is home to about 27,000 people, according to the Karen Refugee Committee. Under Thai law, displaced persons are prohibited from leaving the camps, but authorities often allow refugees to leave for day labour. Maung Win*, 36, an ethnic Arakan, told IRIN about his recent arrest outside camp.

Source: UNHCR Japanese government officials are visiting Mae La refugee camp in northern Thailand today (Tuesday, 02 Feb.) to begin interviewing refugees from Myanmar who have applied for resettlement to Japan. ...

Source: UNHCR GENEVA, 28 DECEMBER – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, expressed his dismay today at Thailand's deportation of Lao Hmong. "I call upon the Thai ...

Source: UNHCR Because he?s never been able to walk, 15-year-old refugee Tway Tway says it?s all the more important to develop his brain ? and a refugee camp in northern Thailand is the ideal place to do that.

Source: IRIN Thousands of ethnic Karen villagers have fled across the border into Thailand in recent weeks in the wake of Myanmar army attacks on Karen rebels, according to media reports and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

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MSF halts medical activities at a camp for Hmong refugees in northern Thailand after four years as the sole humanitarian organization providing assistance. Also, hear a report from the country of ...

Source: Reuters By Thin Lei Win BANGKOK, May 20 (Reuters) - Medical charity MSF will pull out of a Hmong refugee camp in northern Thailand, the group's country representative said on Wednesday, blaming ...

NUPO Thursday, April 30, 2009 (IRIN) - The resettlement of Burmese refugees from the nine camps along the Thai border with Myanmar has been something of a success story. More than 43,000 have found homes in some 11 countries since 2004 when the programme began up to the end of 2008. Another 13,000 are expected to leave in 2009.

UMPIUM Tuesday, April 28, 2009 (IRIN) - Several blue and white buses of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are about to depart Umpium refugee camp of some 20,000 people in Thailand, close to the Myanmar border.

Source: IRIN The resettlement of Burmese refugees from the nine camps along the Thai border with Myanmar has been something of a success story. More than 43,000 have found homes in some 11 countries since 2004 when the programme began up to the end of 2008. Another 13,000 are expected to leave in 2009.

Source: IRIN Several blue and white buses of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are about to depart Umpium refugee camp of some 20,000 people in Thailand, close to the Myanmar border.

UNHCR has asked the Thai government for clarification of allegations that a Lao Hmong man, Joua Va Yang, has been mistreated in Huay Nam Khao camp in Petchabun province, northern Thailand, and is in danger...

The IRC in Thailand has introduced a new method to help abused refugee women bring their attackers to justice: forensic photography. Six female refugees at the International Rescue Committee’s domestic violence shelters in the refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border recently received training and cameras to document injuries sustained after rape or domestic abuse.

About an hour's drive west of Thailand's second largest city of Chiang Mai is Pong Yang Nai, a cluster of small farms surrounded by hills covered with lush vegetation. At this time of year, a merciless sun beats down on the agricultural workers ploughing the fields or planting chilies, flowers and vegetables. On any given day as many as 800 people labour here - the majority are impoverished migrant workers from neighboring Burma.

In the shade of a bamboo shelter by a row of small flowers that will later be picked and sold for use in Buddhist ceremonies, I sit down with Nang Kham, 37. She says that she left her village in Burma eight years ago.

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Source: IRIN Mae La camp, the largest of nine for Burmese refugees on the Thai border, resembles a small thatched city, now more than a decade old, with a population of 50,000 registered and non-registered residents, according to camp officials and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Source: Human Rights Watch (New York, July 11, 2008) – Thai authorities should end intimidation and forced deportations of Lao Hmong refugees detained in a camp in Petchabun province, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights ...

Close to 400 Lao Hmong were repatriated to Laos from a camp in northern Thailand on Thursday. UNHCR was unable to observe the return process as it has not been granted access. We have no information to...

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UNHCR has written to the Thai government expressing concern over the return of 837 Lao Hmong from Thailand last Sunday, 22 June. The operation came after a mass protest by thousands of Lao Hmong who broke...

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