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Jan 29, 2012

America’s “Unfinished Business in Iraq”

A New York Times editorial reminds us that The United States has a “moral obligation” to screen

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Jan 24, 2012

Read IRAP’s Policy Memo Urging the Use of Videoconferencing in Syria

Current American policy and practice bars the use of videoconferencing to conduct initial interviews with

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Jan 24, 2012

Waiting for Resettlement Interviews in Syria: “Caught Between a Rock and No Place”

About 10,000 Iraqi refugees wait in Syria for the interviews with the US Government that

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Jan 19, 2012

Urgency of Refugee Admissions Intensifies as Violence Escalates in Iraq

BAGHDAD, 19 January 2012 (IRIN) – Suicide attacks, assassinations and bombings in Iraq have claimed

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Jan 9, 2012

IRAP’s Director Featured in CSM’s “30 Under 30”

The Christian Science Monitor acknowledges the achievements and promise of the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project,

Jan 5, 2012

A Year of Expediting

In her column World View, Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer highlights cases

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Jan 4, 2012

Can’t Stay Put, Can’t Go Home… Can’t Move On?

Rev. Robert Chase, in an op-ed for Newsday, calls on Americans to remember, even

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Jan 3, 2012

The Troops Can Come Home, But the Refugees Can’t

City Limits interviews IRAP translator and journalist Alaa Majeed and IRAP director Becca Heller

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Jan 2, 2012

IRAP in the Boston Herald: U.S. Inaction Betrays Iraqi Allies

In an op-ed appearing in today’s Boston Herald, the authors outline the immediate steps that

Dec 27, 2011

LA Times and NPR Focus on Iraqi Refugees

Yesterday on “Here & Now” NPR interviewed Alaa, who worked for western media organizations

Dec 24, 2011

USCIS’s insufficiently urgent response: “We continue to refine and improve this process”

While USCIS continues to refine and improve the process of conducting security checks on Iraqi

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Dec 22, 2011

63 Killed in Baghdad Bombings

Western officials feared that instability would worsen as U.S. troops left Iraq, but they hoped

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