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Displaced, Disabled and in Need of Our Care
Out of sight, out of mind. There is no better way to characterize the plight of the hundreds of thousands of refugees whose suffering is compounded by disabilities. Read a Boston Globe op-ed by Amb. Jean Kennedy Smith.

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Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-affected Populations

The Women’s Commission has released the first major report to address the critical needs of this all-but-invisible population. Find out more Read an op-ed by Jean Kennedy Smith.

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Disabilities among Refugees and Conflict-affected Populations, June 2008. Also download our resource kit.

Don't Call it Shangri-La: Economic Programs for Displaced Populations in Nepal, May 2008.

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The future of Sierra Leone

View a photo essay on Sierra Leone recovering from years of civil war
Read about glimmers of hope

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ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwean refugees flee violence and watch the results of the one- man election. Read on

iraq

Since the war's start in 2003, millions of people have been uprooted in Iraq. Forced to flee their homes, Iraqi women and children have gone to Jordan, Syria and elsewhere in the region. Learn more

"Books, Not Bombs" Read column by New York TImes columnist Nicholas Kristof

Five Years Later, A Hidden Crisis Read the IRC Commission's report on Iraqi refugees.

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