19-11-2008
Refugees in Kurdistan keep waiting

By Salam Sadi
Erbil- The human rights defending organizations accuse the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of “creating huge prisons” for refugees in the region. KRG officials, in turn, hold the federal government accountable for the lack of services for refugees.
According to the figures by the UNHCR there are 11 refugees’ camps in Kurdistan region in which more than 3500 families live. Most residents are Kurds from Iran and Turkey who have taken refuge in Kurdistan to escape oppression and prosecutions in their home countries.
Some of these families have been living in these camps for 15 to 20 years. Yet, they have no legal status in Kurdistan; they cannot get citizenship or take government jobs.
Ali Kareem, the head of the Kurdistan Institute for Human Rights said the right to take refuge is one of the basic human rights, therefore the refugees have right to a descent life in the place which they escape to, “but in Kurdistan those refugees’ camps are huge prisons where refugees are neglected from every aspects; socially, psychologically, economically and politically,” he said.
“When a person becomes a refugee in another country, he is entitled to all the legal and health care benefits. But in these camps minimum humanitarian needs are provided. The refugees live in extreme poverty and financially are least supported,” he added.
KRG officials say that there is no law to guarantee the refugees’ rights and that still it is not clear whether the parliament of Kurdistan has the authority to independently draft and pass a law to address the needs of the refugees.
Khaman Zrar, a member of the Legal Committee in Kurdistan parliament, attributed the problem to the lack of a law to entitle a legal identity to the refugees. She believed the ratification of this law is the authority of the federal government.
But the officials find it hard to persuade people like Kareem.
“Now in Kurdistan there is a formal entity and according to the permanent Iraqi constitution the parliament and the formal institutions in Kurdistan region have the right to work independently within the structure of Iraqi government. Therefore, the parliament of Kurdistan can pass a law for the organization of refugees’ affairs.” Kareem said.
However, he believed the problem is that the issue has not been considered in a way it deserved to be.
Bayan Hamad Salih, a lawyer with the Uinted Nations High Committee for Refugees, described the criticism by the human rights organization against KRG an “unsubstantiated”. She believed such organizations do not have enough knowledge about the international laws for the refugees.
Salih said that Iraq is one of the countries who did not sign the treaty of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1951. Accordingly, Iraq is not abided by the terms of the treaty.
“According to the laws of Iraq for a formal employment an Iraqi nationality identity is required. And those who do not have citizenship cannot get jobs and are deprived from the retirement benefits that Iraqis are entitled to, but they can get jobs as contractors or work in private sectors,” said Salih.
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09-07-2009
Iranian Kurd refugees in Iraq relocated from no-man’s land to camp – UN

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has shut down a makeshift camp, home to nearly 200 Iranian Kurds refugees, in the no-man’s land on the Iraqi-Jordanian border, relocating them to another site on Iraq’s border with Syria.
The 186 Iranian Kurds were moved by UNHCR’s Office in Iraq to Al Waleed camp, which already hosts 1,400 Palestinian refugees.
Most Iranian Kurds refugees in Iraq live in the Kawa settlement set up by the agency and the Kurdistan Regional Government in 2006, following the closure of a camp in Anbar.
However, this group of 186 refugees fled to the border village of Trebil, creating challenges for UNHCR, which was providing them with basic assistance, and for the Iraqi Government, which provides security. Authorities had set a 5 July 2009 deadline for them to leave the no-man’s land and relocate to Al Waleed.
“Their previous location, which was very difficult to access, created limitations for how far we could go in providing support,” said Daniel Endres, UNHCR Representative in Iraq, voicing hope that the agency will be better able to provide a better standard of living and basic needs – such as food, water, sewage, education and health services – to the refugees in Al Waleed.
“Living in a tent in the desert is difficult and UNHCR will continue to search for more durable solutions for this group, as well as for the Palestinian refugees who already reside there,” he added.
Iraq currently hosts 40,000 refugees, most of whom are Palestinians, but also include Turkish Kurds and Iranian Kurds. The majority of them are sheltering in camps and settlements, with UNHCR providing protection and basic assistance while exploring longer-term solutions.
Source: The United Nations
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03-09-2009
More then 17.000 Kurdish refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan
Hawler - In the Kurdistan region of Iraq there are more then 17.000 Kurdish refugees from other Kurdish regions, says KRG representative for the UN Dindar Zebari.
Zebari ruled out that the Regional Government of Kurdsitan (KRG) will force the refugees to leave Iraq. “The KRG doesn’t have the viewpoint that refugees living in the Region Kurdsitan should be sent back to their country of origin.” The Kurdish politician says that this is supported by international law and that this is why the United Nations support the Kurds.
Next to this the Kurdish government is busy with improving the living conditions of refugees. Dindar Zebari says he didn’t hear anything about returning the Turkish Kurdish refugees of the Makhmur camp to Turkey. “But we are without doubt against this kind of decisions.” (Photo: Rudaw)
© Rudaw
Roji hayni rekawti 5/12/2008 le regay newan Turkeyaw v yunawan le daryay EZHA 7 penbari kurdi rojhalati kurdistan ke peshter le campi Altash jeyabon be karasatiki deltazayn geyanin le dast da.
Emasha wako berewabari malpari Altash Camp xoman be shariki xami benemalayan dazanin. ALTASH Camp





A need to belong
By Kamaran Najm
QUSHTEPE
Iranian Kurdish refugees in Iraq have waited 30 years for the right to hold an identity.
When Hassan Pallani and his family were driven out of their camp in the Kurdish areas in 1982
by the former Iraqi regime, they never imagined they would spend the next 27 years subjugated in a desert camp near Anbar. Pallani, an Iranian Kurd, had fled from Iran some 30 years ago after the Iranian revolution of 1979 and found sanctuary in a camp near Slemani.
Today, he is married with four children, none of whom have either an Iraqi or Iranian identity. “We spent 27 years in Altash Camp near Anbar. I got married there, now I have four children but none of them have either an Iraqi or Iranian identity,” said 42-year-old Pallani who was born in Kirmanshah. Pallani’s family are not alone in their plight.
Twenty kilometers from Erbil lies Qushtepe Camp, which is “home” to nearly 250 Kurdish families from Iran. These families are among the 120,000 refugees from Iranian Kurdistan who fled to Iraq in 1979 after the revolution led by Ayatollah Khomeni.
At first the 12,000 families were sheltered in some camps around the city of Slemani but following a decision by the Iraqi regime, the families were forcibly moved to compulsory camps near Anbar.
Starting life from scratch was difficult for these families, and it was not eased in the slightest by the desert conditions of their camp. They were also unfamiliar with the language and culture of the predominately Arab-inhabited area.
The families say they were not treated as human beings. They endured this situation for 25 years. After the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003, there was an opportunity for them to escape from their desert prison and return to a normal life.
So it was that many families went back to their ancestral lands while others migrated to western countries. But there were still others who continue to spend their lives in the camps around Slemani, Erbil, Kalar and Khanaqin, waiting for a normal life to resume after 30 years of misery.
The most common grievance among these families is that they don't have the right of citizenship neither in Iran nor in Iraq. Expelling these families from Iran was under the orders of Ayatollah Khomeini who decreed that those areas were to be evacuated and ordered his subordinates to kill anyone who resisted.
Most of the settlers originally hailed from Kirmanshah and their forceful removal was at the hands of the Pasdars (Special Guards) Living in exile, and their struggle to survive without the basic necessities as well as countless other problems, have exhausted these homeless families, who describe their existence as a “slow death.”
After spending most of their life in suffering, the Kurdish settlers of Qushtepe Camp expect better conditions of life in the Kurdistan Region and regard the Kurdish government as their biggest supporter.
“We ask the regional government to provide us with the basic necessities of life because until now we are not satisfied with our life and nothing is provided for us,” said Ali Rehim, another settler.
Ali Rehim, now 51 years old, was born in Serpel Zehaw in Iran and was hit by a bomb when he was returning from Anbar to the camp he is dwelling in now. He lost a leg and an arm.
“I spent all I had to find treatment but it was useless because my condition could not be treated here. I have to go abroad to find treatment so I ask the government to help me because I am the only breadwinner in this family,” said Rehim.
Finding employment is a grave challenge for the men of these families while the women’s biggest worry is the unemployment and idleness of their husbands and sons.
Some of the youth of this camp have graduated from universities but they remain unemployed to date, while others have chosen to work as laborers. Khasiya Ezo Abdul-Rahman, a 52-year-old widow, was also born in Serpel Zehaw in Iran.
She now lives with her children in a camp near Kalar. She has to travel more than 250km from her camp if she wants to see her son.
“Once every month I go to see my son and my three grandsons. My grandsons have to be sent to Iran once every three months due to a mental illness,” she said.
The families claim that the governments do not treat them as Kurds. “We ask the Iraqi government at least to provide us with the right of refugees like any of the other countries. Even now we are treated by a decision ordered by the former regime which considers us as immigrants not refugees,” said 32-year-old Jalal Mahmoud.
The families are now dreading the coming of fall and winters. They fear their children will freeze to death under the tents. Winter is a nightmare for them every year, and they are asking the government and NGOs to extend assistance.

IRAQ-JORDAN: First death registered among refugees at border
AMMAN, 4 October 2007 (IRIN) - A woman from a group of 193 Iranian-Kurd refugees who have been stranded at the border of Jordan and Iraq for the past two and a half years became the first fatality there after she died on 2 October as a result of a disease complication, according to refugees at the camp and international and local relief organisations.
Jordanian doctors said that the victim, 46-year-old Sharkat Palani, suffered from diabetes and a psychiatric illness. She left behind 11 children, ranging in age from nine to 23, and a husband. They all live in the same refugee camp in what is referred to as “no man’s land”.
“We asked the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] to help bring her back to the Jordanian Red Crescent [JRC] hospital in Amman where she was treated a month ago, but we were told they could not do it without the medical advice of a Jordanian doctor,” Khabat Mohammadi, acting spokesman for the Iranian-Kurd refugees, said.
On 26 August, ICRC Jordan in collaboration with the country’s authorities succeeded in having Palani transferred to a JRC hospital in Amman for medical care. The woman stayed there until 18 September when doctors approved her discharge on the basis that they could not do anything more for her at that stage of the illness. They provided her with medication to take once back at the camp.
“We did all we could and provided the patient with the necessary medicines for a follow-up back in the camp,” Dr Atef Awad Alah from the JRC hospital said.
But according to Mohammadi, ever since she returned to the camp and despite the medication, her condition started to deteriorate severely over the past two weeks, prompting refugees to launch a new call for help to the ICRC and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Tragic case
“This is a very tragic case. It is also a tragedy what these refugees have been going through. But without the permission of our Jordanian counterparts we are not allowed to transfer any refugee to a Jordanian hospital,” Kim Gordon-Bates of ICRC Jordan said.
However, the Amman-based UNHCR Iraq office managed on this second occasion to transfer Palani to a hospital in the Iraqi city of al-Qam, about 7km from the border, where she received further medical treatment.
“We took all available measures to continue with her medical care. We feel very sorry about her death,” Anita Raman, UNHCR Iraq reporting officer, said.
Background
The Iranian-Kurd refugees arrived at the Iraq-Jordan border after fleeing al-Tash refugee camp in Iraq’s western Anbar governorate, following clashes there between insurgents and US forces in January 2005.
After being denied entry to Jordan, they remained on the Iraqi side of the border in an area which UNHCR and its partners say is difficult to access because of insecurity.
The refugees’ request for resettlement in Europe or North America has been denied by UNHCR, which has instead offered to move the group to an official camp in Erbil, capital of the northern Iraqi semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. The refugees rejected the offer, citing fear for their personal safety after some of them were reportedly attacked by militants in 2001 in Kurdistan.
Out of a total of 193 refugees living at the border, 106 are under the age of 18.
living at the border, 106 are under the age of 18.
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In a recent interview over the phone, Jamal Moradi told the Altash Camp News," We are suffering , starving daily and having a hard time in no mans land. we are disappointed of life and pessimistic as well, dying is better than such living but we have to struggle hard, we are very worrid about our children, they are surviving and there is no any clean place for them to play and make them happy"
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By Rebar Jaff
In an exclusive interview with The Hewler Globe, and in response to recent claims that the Iranian Kurdish refugees of Kawa Camp are not being provided the humanitarian aids received for them, Dindar Zebari, KRG Coordinator to the UN and other NGOs in Kurdistan, speaks about the conditions of these refugees, and outlines the series of aids they have been given by both, the Kurdistan Regional Government and UNHCR.
Disagreeing with what he has been quoted as saying previously that $9 million was spent on the Kawa Camp, and yet inadequate services offered to the refugees living there, Zebari says, “I have made clear that the $9 million was allocated by the State Department, not for the Kawa Camp refugees alone, but for the entire Altash Camp refugees, which number some 3 to 4 thousand individuals.” He added that the money was put into transferring these refugees from this tense and dangerous area in Al-Anbar Governorate due to ethnic violence. In addition to spending it for relocating these refugees to safer places in order to save their lives, Zebari explains that the amount was also used to assign a UNHCR agency to implement this project. This was something agreed upon by both, the UN and the KRG – that UNHCR could be the organization to deliver these funds. He says that this capital is being spent wherever these former Altash refugees are and not just the Kawa campsite.
In his comments, Zebari confirms that he has not said or implied that UNHCR has mismanaged the money for refugees allocated by the US Department of State. The agreement was basically signed between KRG-Erbil and UNHCR for removing and transferring these refugees from Altash Camp to Kawa Camp in Erbil, but the major responsibilities were given to UNHCR. These responsibilities included providing shelter as well as all other basic needs. He says large amounts of money have been spent for support to other refugees of Altash in the process of moving them to Suleimaniya and other areas in Kurdistan, and all the relevant costs associated with this process, such as: interviews, surveys, training, public services, health and education support as well as other facilities, in addition to providing them security.
“Supplying electricity generators and buildings for schools and health centers are other things we are now carrying out,” Zebari says, adding that UNHCR has made great input and was the sole body to support the situations of these refugees in Kawa Camp.
“The Swedish Qandil – the organization that is implementing the housing plan – has already begun the process of building homes for refugees,” Zebari says. “The final procedures will include the ultimate number of these refugees, at which time no family must stay without a home.” The UNHCR has made the commitment to fully support the refugees, and its latest reports do show the money that has been given to the vulnerable, needy families, he explains.
Zebari refused that he has previously said the issue of giving residency to these refugees in Kurdistan depends on the Iraqi Interior Ministry, as The Globe had reported in its last issue. “Iraq has special arrangements and procedures for giving residency permission in the country, and I have not held Iraq’s Ministry of Interior responsible by any means,” he says, adding that as KRG Coordinator, he has pushed forward, along with UNHCR, to issue identification cards to these people in order to legitimize their stay in Kurdistan and make it as legal as possible for them to remain in the country.
The former published report had also stated that these refugees were not allowed to get employed in government institutions – something Zebari completely denies in his comments to The Globe. “In regards to employment, these refugees have been given identity cards in this region and have full rights to work,” Zebari says, “… and as I understand from the Governor of Erbil officials, dozens of these refugees are now employed in the municipalities of Erbil Governorate and are given jobs with no problems.” He also adds that these people can move, relocate, educate and travel in the region with no questions asked and their situations are much better now that they have come to Kurdistan.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
AI Index: MDE 16/007/2006 (Public)
News Service No: 161
22 June 2006
Amnesty International is calling on the Jordanian government to investigate allegations that Jordanian security forces used excessive force against members of a group of Iranian Kurdish refugees who, on 14 June 2006, held a peaceful protest against their living conditions and calling for their re-settlement in a safe third country. According to reports, they were attacked by Jordanian security forces in the so-called No Man’s Land (NML) desert area between the borders of Iraq and Jordan, where they have been living in harsh conditions, since January 2005. Several of the refugees, including a pregnant woman, are reported to have been injured when they were beaten with sticks by Jordanian security officials. One of the refugees is also reported to have been taken into Jordanian custody and badly beaten before being released.
Amnesty International urges the Jordanian authorities to establish a prompt and independent investigation into these allegations and, if they prove to be well-founded, to ensure that any Jordanian officials responsible for ordering or using excessive force are held to account. As well, the government should ensure that all Jordanian law enforcement bodies are instructed clearly that they must act in conformity with Jordan’s international human rights obligations and standards on the use of force, including the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms. In recent years Amnesty International has received some reports of Jordanian security forces beating and arresting peaceful demonstrators who are perceived as critics of government policies including members of the Professional Associations and Palestinian refugees.
Background
This group of 183 Iranian Kurdish refugees had been resident in Iraq for almost 30 years. They lived at the al-Tash camp, located near Ramadi in central Iraq, until they left, along with other refugees resident there, due to growing concerns about their safety in Iraq. In January 2005, they arrived at the border with Jordan but were denied entry by Jordanian officials, although some 743 other refugees were admitted to Jordan during 2005. Since then the 183 refugees have remained on the Iraqi side of the NML, living in tents and surviving mostly on assistance and goods brought or donated by travellers passing along the highway connecting Iraq and Jordan. The refugees do not wish to be relocated to Iraq’s Kurdish autonomous area, reportedly because they fear that they would be at risk from Iranian security agents who they believe to be active in the area.
As the refugees are residing on the Iraqi side of the NML, Iraq has primary responsibility to ensure that the refugees are safe and have access to adequate food, water, shelter, and medical assistance. However, Jordan also has a responsibility to protect them when they enter areas of the NML under Jordanian jurisdiction.
Iraq, Jordan and other countries in the region should make all possible efforts as soon as possible, through cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to find a timely, viable and durable solution for these refugees, ensuring that they are able to settle as soon as possible in a country in safety and dignity.
In March, over one hundred Palestinian refugees were stranded for several weeks near the Iraqi/Jordanian border after fleeing the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, where many of the group had lived for decades, following an increase in killings and "disappearances" of Palestinians living there. Jordan denied the group entry to Jordanian territory, in violation of its obligations under international law. Under the internationally-recognized principle of non-refoulement, Jordan has an obligation not to reject individuals at its borders if they are fleeing a country where they risk persecution or where their life or freedom is at risk. The group was later re-settled in Syria.
Over the years Jordan has hosted huge numbers of refugees. Approximately two-thirds of its population are of Palestinian-origin who fled their homes since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. In recent years hundreds of thousands of Iraqis left their country to live in Jordan
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| Iranian Kurdish Refugees Find Shelter in Northern Iraq | |
| Qushtapa, Iraq 20 June 2006 |
International refugee agencies say nearly one million Iraqis have fled their country since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in March 2003. But Iraq is also host to a small and long-standing refugee population of several thousand Turkish and Iranian Kurds. On World Refugee Day, VOA's Margaret Besheer visited the Kawa Refugee Camp in the northern Iraqi town of Qushtapa, and brings us this report.

Kawa Refugee Camp
In a hot, dusty camp on the outskirts of Irbil city stands a small town of tents, tarps, and cinder blocks. For the past eight months it has been home to more than 200 families of Iranian Kurds.
The Kawa Transit Camp was established last October by the U.N. Refugee Agency to house refugees who had been living in another camp in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi for more than 20 years. Those refugees initially fled their homes in Iran during the Iran-Iraq war that raged during the 1980s and killed an estimated one million people.
But the refugees had to be moved from Ramadi last year after insurgent-inspired violence made the city too dangerous for both aid workers and refugees. The Kurdish regional government provided the land for the Kawa Camp.
Chinour, 18, and her seven brothers and sisters were born in the camp at Ramadi. Now they live at Kawa with their parents.
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| The Chinour family |
Although there is a secondary school at Kawa, Chinour, like many other girls, does not attend because she must help her father in his small grocery store. But camp officials say the attendance rate is better among younger children and that the primary school has about 400 students.
Chinour's family home consists of one bare room built from cinder blocks where the family eats, socializes and sleeps. Outside is a small courtyard draped with plastic sheeting for privacy.
But the family has electricity to run a fan in the intense heat and they also have a color television. In fact, many of their neighbors even have satellite dishes outside their tents.
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| Kawa Refugee Camp |
"Are they getting more power than everyone else? Yes they are," she said. "Do they need it? Absolutely. They are not living in the same conditions."
The families also receive 95 liters of water each day for cooking, drinking and bathing.
The camp has a healthcare center and a library. There are sports and other activities for the children, who make up about half the camp's population of nearly 1,300 people.
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| Children at Camp Kawa |
Kingsley says the camp has programs to help the refugees get off assistance and become self-sufficient.
"It is a bit more difficult for the women," she added. "The traditional cultural values here are extremely conservative, so women are often not permitted to do anything outside their tents. So we have to find things that are culturally appropriate."
She says they are offering sewing, which women can do at home, and are considering offering training in bee keeping and computers. For the men, there is training in carpentry, welding and electrical work, as well as English classes.
Although they are better off than refugees in some other countries, life at Kawa is not easy. But hopefully it will improve soon, as permanent homes are being built nearby for the Kawa families.
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The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Michael McDowell, T.D., will be in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo today to welcome a group of 65 Iranian Kurds who arrived 10 days ago, the first of a total group of 180 due to be resettled in Ireland this year under the United Nation's Refugee Resettlement Programme.
The group's arrival stems from the Minister's announcement in February of this year of his undertaking, on humanitarian grounds, to accept a large group of refugees from the UNHCR camp near Ruwayshid in Jordan. A selection mission was undertaken by his officials in early April. The refugees are participating in an intensive six week language and orientation training course before being permanently resettled in Dublin and Leitrim.
This group of 65 is one of three groups making up the total of 180 which will be resettled in Ireland in the period up to the end of this year. It is made up of 11 family groups with individuals ranging in age from 2 to 73 years. These families have been specifically selected to arrive first on the basis that they have relatives who have already been resettled here under the UNHCR Programme.
This group of Iranian Kurds fled from Iran to Iraq (1979 -1981) where they were accommodated in an area known as Al Tash. Following heightened insecurity associated with the Spring 2003 military intervention in Iraq, the group fled to the Jordanian border where they lived in the 'No Man's Land' refugee camp. In May 2005, the Jordanian Government agreed to transfer the group to the Ruwayshid refugee camp for security reasons. Under Jordanian law, the group were considered as temporary visitors and, as such, were entitled to a maximum of 6 months residency after which they are vulnerable to refoulement.
The UNHCR proposed to close the camp later this year - thus requiring a strong humanitarian response from those countries involved in resettlement. It was in this context that the Minister decided to resettle a significant number of refugees from the camp. In all, these families have spent over 25 years in various temporary camp-like sites - the children have known no other kind of existence.
Ireland is one of 18 countries worldwide, and one of only 6 EU Member States, which participate in the Resettlement Programme. Refugees have been admitted into Ireland from 16 different countries to date under this programme. The UNHCR is working towards increasing the number of countries receiving refugees for resettlement.
10 July 2006.
NOTES FOR EDITORS
The Resettlement Programme
Resettlement is an instrument of protection normally employed by the UNHCR where refugee's safety, health or fundamental human rights are at risk in the country where they initially sought refuge. The decision to resettle refugees is taken only when other options such as voluntary repatriation and local integration are not an option. In 1998 the Irish Government decided to participate in the UNHCR Refugee Resettlement Programme and agreed to annually admit up to ten persons who were categorised by UNHCR as vulnerable together with members of their families. In practice, this means admitting about 40 persons per year. In 2005 the Government increased the Quota from 10 cases (approx 40 persons per yr) to 200 persons per year. In general resettlement refugees have the same rights and privileges as convention refugees.
The first new arrivals under the Government's Resettlement Programme were approved for admittance in 1999 and arrived in 2000. See below for details of programme to end of 2006.
Year of Arrival Numbers resettled
2000 35
2001 52
2002 28
2003 50
2004 58
2005 116
2006 180*
Total to date 519
* Includes total sceduled for 2006
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She described how initially a few loud voices in the town were heard complaining of their presence. However, it became obvious that overall the townspeople were open and ready to welcome in the new residents when the one world group began to initiate formation.
Sr Joan Roddy, originally from Aughnasheelin, spoke briefly of the importance of the Government putting in place an adequate immigration policy.
One of the overall themes of the seminar was to try and ensure the rights of all people are respected. This is particularily pertinant at the moment when 10 new members states have just joined the EU and also because of the forthcoming citizenship referendum.
All speakers were eager for the communties to welcome their new residents and to educate themselves in different cultures.
The Leitrim Partnership hope the themes of the seminar will reach the public and the new residents in Leitrim will begin to feel more integrated within the community. But for this to happen the communities have to be accepting and open themselves.
Bernie Donoghue from the County Leitrim Partnership said the seminar had been a good success but it also served as an indicator that a lot of work must be done to help refugees and asylum seekers in the area.
There are still a lot of issues to be addressed. It is hoped a forum will be set up to address these issues in the near future.
At the moment, however the support groups in Ballinamore and Carrick-on-Shannon certainly offer a great service for the county.
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Name |
Surename |
Place and date of birth
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Number of members | |
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1 |
Aziz |
Sarzali |
1956 |
13 |
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2 |
Shavkat |
Palani |
1960 |
died on 3/10/07 |
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3 |
Marziyeh |
Sarzali |
1983 |
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4 |
Akbar |
Sarzali |
1984 |
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5 |
Javhar |
Sarzali |
1984 |
|
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6 |
Souad |
Sarzali |
1986 |
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7 |
Navzad |
Sarzali |
1986 |
|
|
8 |
Hoshyar |
Sarzali |
1987 |
|
|
9 |
Aso |
Sarzali |
1989 |
|
|
10 |
Chenor |
Sarzali |
1991 |
|
|
11 |
Rezgar |
Sarzali |
1993 |
|
|
12 |
Shimae |
Sarzali |
1995 |
|
|
13 |
Zahra |
Sarzali |
1999 |
|
|
1 |
Mohamad |
Javanmiri |
1961 |
9 |
|
2 |
Ghazaleh |
Azizi |
1950 |
|
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3 |
Bizjan |
Javanmiri |
1983 |
|
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4 |
Zavareh |
Javanmiri |
1984 |
|
|
5 |
Azad |
Javanmiri |
1985 |
|
|
6 |
Farideh |
Javanmiri |
1989 |
|
|
7 |
Avareh |
Javanmiri |
1991 |
|
|
8 |
Fahimeh |
Javanmiri |
1992 |
|
|
9 |
Iman |
Javanmiri |
1999 |
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|
1 |
Asadollah |
Mohamadi |
1967 |
7 |
|
2 |
Khanpari |
Karami |
1970 |
|
|
3 |
Kewstan |
Mohamadi |
1995 |
|
|
4 |
Rezan |
Mohamadi |
1997 |
|
|
5 |
Javaneh |
Mohamadi |
1999 |
|
|
6 |
Tanya |
Mohamadi |
2001 |
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|
7 |
Zjwan |
Mohamadi |
2005 |
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1 |
Shah Morowat |
Azizi |
1961 |
2 |
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2 |
Khanom |
Malaki |
1962 |
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1 |
Mohamad |
Azmi |
1966 |
8 |
|
2 |
Payman |
Mahmoodi |
1970 |
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3 |
Aso |
Azmi |
1990 |
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|
4 |
Chiman |
Azmi |
1991 |
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5 |
Diman |
Azmi |
1992 |
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|
6 |
Sharmin |
Azmi |
1993 |
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|
7 |
Ako |
Azmi |
1995 |
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|
8 |
Fayzah |
Azmi |
1998 |
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1 |
Majid |
Sohrabi |
1970 |
8 |
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2 |
Akhtar |
Ahmadi |
1972 |
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3 |
Farzaneh |
Sohrabi |
1990 |
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4 |
Sharmin |
Sohrabi |
1992 |
|
|
5 |
Karvan |
Sohrabi |
1993 |
|
|
6 |
Marivan |
Sohrabi |
1997 |
|
|
7 |
Nashmin |
Sohrabi |
1999 |
|
|
8 |
Komar |
Sohrabi |
2005 |
|
|
1 |
Esmail |
Karimi |
1965 |
7 |
|
2 |
Fereshteh |
Nazari |
1977 |
|
|
3 |
Arezo |
Karimi |
1993 |
|
|
4 |
Omid |
Karimi |
1994 |
|
|
5 |
Mehdi |
Karimi |
1997 |
|
|
6 |
Milad |
Karimi |
2000 |
|
|
7 |
Moein |
Karimi |
2005 |
|
|
1 |
Qamar |
Mohamadi |
1955 |
7 |
|
2 |
Sarvanaz |
Mohamadi |
1960 |
|
|
3 |
Khabat |
Mohamadi |
1985 |
|
|
4 |
Iman |
Mohamadi |
1987 |
|
|
5 |
Bayan |
Mohamadi |
1993 |
|
|
6 |
Zjyan |
Mohamdi |
1996 |
|
|
7 |
Basat |
Mohamadi |
1999 |
|
|
1 |
Satar |
Moradi |
1977 |
7 |
|
2 |
Chiman |
Moradi |
1976 |
|
|
3 |
Layli |
Moradi |
1995 |
|
|
4 |
Sevah |
Moradi |
1996 |
|
|
5 |
Servah |
Moradi |
1997 |
|
|
6 |
Mohamad |
Moradi |
2001 |
|
|
7 |
Bahar |
Moradi |
2002 |
|
|
1 |
Rostam |
Palani |
1967 |
6 |
|
2 |
Khavar |
Mohamadi |
1969 |
|
|
3 |
Verya |
Palani |
1992 |
|
|
4 |
Sirwan |
Palani |
1994 |
|
|
5 |
Zjyan |
Palani |
1997 |
|
|
6 |
Diyar |
Palani |
2003 |
|
|
1 |
Nasim |
Nori |
1962 |
8 |
|
2 |
Bano |
Mohamadi |
1968 |
|
|
3 |
Sargol |
Nori |
1985 |
|
|
4 |
Galavezj |
Nori |
1985 |
|
|
5 |
Ziad |
Nori |
1988 |
|
|
6 |
Riaz |
Nori |
1990 |
|
|
7 |
Monireh |
Nori |
1992 |
|
|
8 |
Rezgar |
Nori |
1997 |
|
|
1 |
Ali |
Nori |
1955 |
7 |
|
2 |
Maryam |
Salimi |
1960 |
|
|
3 |
Javad |
Nori |
1987 |
|
|
4 |
Sargol |
Nori |
1986 |
|
|
5 |
Sabah |
Nori |
1989 |
|
|
6 |
Sarhad |
Nori |
1992 |
|
|
7 |
Sara |
Nori |
2001 |
|
|
1 |
Hassan |
Moradi |
1968 |
5 |
|
2 |
Farziyeh |
Palani |
1974 |
|
|
3 |
Aram |
Moradi |
1992 |
|
|
4 |
Payman |
Moradi |
1992 |
|
|
5 |
Payman |
Moradi |
1997 |
|
|
1 |
Hassan |
Safari |
1970 |
6 |
|
2 |
Farideh |
Hosayni |
1974 |
|
|
3 |
Golaleh |
Safari |
1992 |
|
|
4 |
Bistoon |
Safari |
1994 |
|
|
5 |
Goran |
Safari |
2001 |
|
|
6 |
Soran |
Safari |
2006 |
|
|
1 |
Kamal |
Palani |
1974 |
5 |
|
2 |
Hamdiyeh |
Palani |
1975 |
|
|
3 |
Zana |
Palani |
1977 |
|
|
4 |
Dana |
Palani |
1998 |
|
|
5 |
Diyar |
Palani |
2001 |
|
|
1 |
Jamal |
Moradi |
1972 |
5 |
|
2 |
Sediqeh |
Moradi |
1978 |
|
|
3 |
Golan |
Moradi |
1997 |
|
|
4 |
Zana |
Moradi |
1999 |
|
|
5 |
Zanyar |
Moradi |
2006 |
|
|
1 |
Khoda Morowat |
Azizi |
1967 |
8 |
|
2 |
Zaynab |
Azizi |
1962 |
|
|
3 |
Awat |
Azizi |
1989 |
|
|
4 |
Avareh |
Azizi |
1990 |
|
|
5 |
Goran |
Azizi |
1992 |
|
|
6 |
Parvaneh |
Azizi |
1993 |
|
|
7 |
Salam |
Azizi |
2000 |
|
|
8 |
Khabat |
Azizi |
2004 |
|
|
1 |
Mohamad |
Khorsandpour |
1973 |
Singel |
|
2 |
Mohamad |
Palani |
1981 |
Singel |
|
3 |
Mansour |
Bahrami |
1980 |
Singel |
|
1 |
Shahab |
Palani |
1978 |
4 |
|
2 |
Farideh |
Palani |
1982 |
|
|
3 |
Iman |
Palani |
1998 |
|
|
4 |
Elham |
Palani |
2004 |
|
|
1 |
Barzan |
Palani |
1985 |
3 |
|
2 |
Zaynab |
Palani |
1980 |
|
|
3 |
Parwin |
Palani |
1987 |
|
|
1 |
Salah |
Taymori |
1975 |
2 |
|
2 |
Khadijeh |
Ramazani |
1982 |
|
|
1 |
Aziz |
Khayrolahzadeh |
1962 |
10 |
|
2 |
Homa |
Moradi |
1973 |
|
|
3 |
Arman |
Khayrolahzadeh |
1992 |
|
|
4 |
Marsha |
Khayrolahzadeh |
1994 |
|
|
5 |
Toba |
Khayrolahzadeh |
1996 |
|
|
6 |
Diana |
Khayrolahzadeh |
1998 |
|
|
7 |
Suzan |
Khayrolahzadeh |
2000 |
|
|
8 |
Aryan |
Khayrolahzadeh |
2002 |
|
|
9 |
Baban |
Khayrolahzadeh |
2004 |
|
|
10 |
Donya |
Khayrolahzadeh |
2006 |
|
|
1 |
Karim |
Moradi |
1955 |
9 |
|
2 |
Sahib |
Moradi |
1960 |
|
|
3 |
Faeq |
Moradi |
1985 |
|
|
4 |
Nameq |
Moradi |
1986 |
|
|
5 |
Salah |
Moradi |
1987 |
|
|
6 |
Habieh |
Moradi |
1992 |
|
|
7 |
Sabiheh |
Moradi |
1993 |
|
|
8 |
Hamdiyeh |
Moradi |
1994 |
|
|
9 |
Salam |
Moradi |
1998 |
|
|
1 |
Amir |
Rashidi |
1974 |
6 |
|
2 |
Marziyeh |
Palani |
1977 |
|
|
3 |
Kewstan |
Rashidi |
1997 |
|
|
4 |
Golestan |
Rashidi |
1998 |
|
|
5 |
Barham |
Rashidi |
2000 |
|
|
6 |
Mohamad |
Rashidi |
2003 |
|
|
1 |
Nori |
Zabeti |
1974 |
5 |
|
2 |
Maliheh |
Zabeti |
1975 |
|
|
3 |
Yahya |
Zabeti |
1997 |
|
|
4 |
Abdolah |
Zabeti |
1999 |
|
|
5 |
Omar |
Zabeti |
2001 |
|
|
1 |
Satar |
Palani |
1967 |
5 |
|
2 |
Soybeh |
Jamshidi |
1973 |
|
|
3 |
Edris |
Palani |
1996 |
|
|
4 |
Shimae |
Palani |
1998 |
|
|
5 |
Shavnm |
Palani |
2001 |
|
|
1 |
Jamshid |
Azizi |
1977 |
5 |
|
2 |
Souad |
Javanmiri |
1980 |
|
|
3 |
Kamran |
Azizi |
2001 |
|
|
4 |
Javaneh |
Azizi |
2002 |
|
|
5 |
Hanan |
Azizi |
2005 |
|
|
1 |
Reza |
Azizi |
1965 |
5 |
|
2 |
Ayna |
Azizi |
1972 |
|
|
3 |
Salah |
Azizi |
1988 |
|
|
4 |
Kayhan |
Azizi |
1993 |
|
|
5 |
Midia |
Azizi |
1998 |
|
|
1 |
Ali |
Nori |
1967 |
4 |
|
2 |
Parasto |
Nazari |
1984 |
|
|
3 |
Sita |
Nori |
2004 |
|
|
4 |
Sarika |
Nori |
2006 |
|
|
1 |
Ali |
Nori |
1950 |
7 |
|
2 |
Maryam |
Nori |
1959 |
|
|
3 |
Nazanin |
Nori |
1978 |
|
|
4 |
Ali |
Nori |
1980 |
|
|
5 |
Manochehr |
Nori |
1982 |
|
|
6 |
Farkhondeh |
Nori |
1986 |
|
|
7 |
Yasin |
Nori |
1988 |
|
|
1 |
Mohamad |
Khorsandpour |
1973 |
Single |
|
2 |
Mohamad |
Palani |
1981 |
// |
|
3 |
Mansour |
Bahrami |
1980 |
// |
|
4 |
Hassan |
Nazari |
1977 |
Single |
|
5 |
Hoshang |
Nikbakht |
1980 |
// |
|
6 |
Aqajan |
Mohamadi |
1970 |
// |
|
7 |
Anwar |
Mohamadi |
1986 |
// |
|
8 |
Abdolah |
Zabeti |
1975 |
// |
|
9 |
Barzo |
Palani |
1980 |
// |
|
10 |
Delshad |
Tahmasbi |
1982 |
// |
|
11 |
Asaad |
Palani |
1975 |
// |