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IRAP on Southern California Public Radio
“People underestimate just how much these interpreters are on the line of battle,” said Katherine Reisner, National Policy Director for the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project. “They’re doing this all for a country they’ve never seen.”Iraq War 10 years later: Former Iraqi translator makes a new life in Glendale
“Is this the best we can do for those who aided us in Iraq?”
“I did it because I like my country and the Mahdi army was working for Iran,” Salam Hamrani, an Iraqi refugee in Cyprus, tells his good friend Trudy Rubin, columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Then he continues: “I made trouble for my family by trusting the Americans. I worked with the Americans for no money, [...]
LGBT Refugees in Beirut
In addition to the ordinary challenges of being a refugee in a country that hasn’t ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention (and Iraq’s neighbors have not), LGBTI refugees in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan face particular threats and harassment. Salon and GlobalPost call attention to this important and often overlooked aspect of the Iraqi refugee crisis.
IRAP in The Guardian: This Veterans Day, We Must Remember the Iraqi Interpreters
Michael Breen, Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project co-founder and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, reminds us today in the Guardian that as we welcome the homecoming of our soldiers in Iraq, we must do more to help those for whom the war is not over– the two million or more refugees, including interpreters, religious minorities, gay [...]
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