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The Controversial Cambodian-Australian Refugee Deal Hits Snags

Clothilde Le Coz
• April 21, 2015

PHNOM PENH — A controversial $40 million deal signed between the Australian and Cambodian governments last September to resettle about 1,000 refugees from detention centers on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru to Cambodia was the first time…

Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugees, UN Agencies

Shadowy Militias Spread Terror in Rural Myanmar

Barbara Crossette
• October 7, 2014

He is a young man whose name or exactly where he lives in the Burmese countryside cannot be published because he fears retribution when he returns to Myanmar from a visit to the United Nations headquarters. Speaking in English,…

Categories: Asia, Governance, Myanmar

Vijay Nambiar, UN Envoy, Untangles the Problems Plaguing Myanmar

Barbara Crossette
• May 19, 2014

The surprising move in 2010 by a repressive Burmese military regime to begin ceding power to the nation’s people was just the beginning of a tangled story. The new democracy held its first credible election less than two years…