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Mar 18, 2012

Iraq’s Gay Community Under Siege

Gay and “emo” youths in Iraq are in serious danger: between 14 and 40 youths

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Mar 14, 2012

Refugee Arrival Numbers Down in FY 2011

The number of refugees admitted to the United States in the 2011 fiscal year was

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Mar 14, 2012

USCIS Releases Annual Report on Special Immigrant Status Visas

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services released its fiscal year 2010 annual report on the

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Feb 19, 2012

Iraqis in Syria: Again Facing Civil Unrest and Regional Religious Animosity

The escalating conflict in Syria has many of the one million Iraqi refugees there again

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Feb 12, 2012

Domestic Violence On the Rise in Iraq

Domestic violence is on the rise In Iraq, and there are few places for abused

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Feb 8, 2012

U.S. Plans to Cut Embassy Staff in Iraq by Half

The State Department may halve the staff at the American embassy in Iraq – which,

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Feb 6, 2012

IRAP in USA Today: Refugee advocates express concern over slowing resettlement of Iraqi refugees

IRAP Director Becca Heller and other advocates met with the Deputy National Security Advisor to

Jan 31, 2012

Three minutes with IRAP director Becca Heller

Becca Heller, IRAP’s co-founder and director, spoke briefly with the Washington Examiner about why IRAP

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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