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BANGKOK Tuesday, February 09, 2010 (IRIN) - While thousands of survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar are benefiting from better healthcare and nutrition, complete recovery may be delayed unless livelihoods are restored, warns a survey released on 9 February.

Date: 16 Feb 2010
Source: International Organization for Migration

Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre Displacement as a result of armed conflict and human rights violations continues in Myanmar. Between August 2008 and July 2009, an estimated 75,000 people from ethnic minority communities in eastern Myanmar were forced to flee their homes.

Source: Reuters BANGKOK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - More than 2,000 ethnic Karen people have fled their villages in eastern Myanmar after deadly attacks by government troops in the past week, a humanitarian group said on ...

Source: AlertNet Refugees who fled to China from armed clashes in northeast Myanmar began going back on Monday, overcoming worries about safety to return to shops and homes they feared would be looted.

Source: Reuters By Royston Chan NANSAN, China, Sept 1 (Reuters) - China dismantled temporary housing for refugees from Myanmar on Tuesday as most headed back to homes and looted shops across the border in Kokang, ...

Date: 27 Aug 2009
Source: Agence France-Presse

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International SILVER SPRING, Md.--A recent surge in armed fighting has caused more than 3,000 villagers in Myanmar's mountainous eastern Karen State to flee across the border into Thailand in search of peace and ...

A gentle rain is falling as I visit Nuh Bo, a small Buddhist temple compound in Thailand where 2,000 people have taken shelter after fleeing the latest outbreak of violence inside Myanmar, also known as Burma. Their makeshift camp, surrounded by soaring limestone cliffs covered in dense foliage, lies on the Thai side of the muddy, fast-flowing Moei River that marks the border.

The people here, members of the Karen ethnic group, arrived in June after the Burmese army and a pro-government militia, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), attacked forces of the rebel Karen National Union, which has been fighting for autonomy for more than half a century. Over 4,000 Karen civilians were forced to flee across the border in what is believed to be one of the largest movements of refugees across the Thailand-Myanmar border in a decade.

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Source: Human Rights Watch (New York) - Burmese army attacks against ethnic Shan civilians in northeastern Burma have displaced more than 10,000 people in the past three weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch ...

MYANMAR: Nargis survivors still waiting for shelter
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Although emergency shelter relief efforts were well funded - reaching around 95 percent of those affected - early recovery or transitional shelter needs ...

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MYANMAR: Nargis survivors still waiting for shelter
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Although emergency shelter relief efforts were well funded - reaching around 95 percent of those affected - early recovery or transitional shelter needs ...

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Source: UNHCR UNHCR staff have visited five sites in northern Thailand where Karen villagers are taking shelter after fleeing eastern Myanmar since 3 June. We have now verified the presence of 2,000 recent ...

Date: 12 Jun 2009
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHCR staff have visited five sites in northern Thailand where Karen villagers are taking shelter after fleeing eastern Myanmar since 3 June. We have now verified the presence of 2,000 recent arrivals....

BANGKOK Friday, April 17, 2009 (IRIN) - A key Asian conference in Bali, Indonesia, on people smuggling and human trafficking has failed to discuss in detail or resolve the issue of the Rohingya ethnic minority, tens of thousands of whom are holed up in various Asian countries, having fled Myanmar.

BANGKOK Thursday, June 04, 2009 (IRIN) - A new IRIN photo gallery is now live. It accompanies IRIN's coverage of Burmese refugees in western Thailand. Over 100,000 refugees who fled conflict and alleged persecution in Myanmar live in nine camps in often remote parts of western Thailand. Unable to return to Myanmar, their lives are tightly curtailed. A new generation has grown up in the camps.

BANGKOK Friday, May 29, 2009 (IRIN) - One year after the establishment of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) to coordinate the international response to Cyclone Nargis, many aid officials favour its extension to help the Rohingya in Myanmar.

MHAWBI Wednesday, May 13, 2009 (IRIN) - Hla Hla Aung, a 35-year-old mother-of-six and resident of Mhawbi village outside Pyapon town in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta, explains the challenges she faces one year after Cyclone Nargis struck, leaving close to 140,000 people dead and 2.4 million affected.

BANGKOK Friday, May 08, 2009 (IRIN) - For survivors of Cyclone Nargis, the start of the monsoon rains is yet another reminder of last year's tragic events.