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Refugees Have Right of Return, but Should Be Free to Choose Other Options

(Kathmandu, May 17, 2007) ? A US offer to resettle 60,000 Bhutanese
refugees has given hope to many of the 106,000 refugees living in Nepal
for more than 16 years, but has also heightened tensions in the camps,
Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Refugees who insist
on repatriation as the only acceptable solution have been threatening and
intimidating those who voice support for resettlement in the US.
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The International Federation of Journalist (IFJ) today called on the Government of Sudan to release two imprisoned journalists and reopen their newspaper Al-Sudani after a defamation complaint by the Justice Minister shut down the paper and put the editor and a columnist in jail.
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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today supported its member unions? call that a Reuters? trust ensure that its editorial independence and quality reporting is not damaged if the proposed…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for action by the Somali authorities to halt the rising death toll after the killing of two journalists yesterday in an ambush…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the repeated assaults on Slim Boukhdir, a freelance reporter and member of the Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists. Boukhdir was first attacked and…