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The Fahamu Refugee Programme is pleased to announce the January 2013 issue of the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter. The issue can be found . Please feel free to share it widely.

In this issue:

Avaaz Community Petition to stop the invocation of the cessation clause for Rwandan refugees

News on Countries of Origin and Asylum

Reader Response: Rwanda, Zambia, Cessation

Deportation News

The purpose of RSDWatch, then and now

Kenya restricts refugees to camps, violating refugee rights

A Profile of a COI provider - a recommended organization

Mercosul countries sign commitment to common policies for refugees in the region

Regarding asylum policy, Norway is far from being the ‘first class’ in Europe

‘Vile liars and truth distorters’ – truth, trust and the asylum system

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Special focus: Canada

CANADA: The crisis in funding legal support for refugees

CANADA: New refugee system does not treat refugees fairly or protect those most at risk

Special focus: Article 1F(c)

UK Legal News Analysis: When is an act contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN?

Casenote on Article 1F(c) ‘acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the UN’

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ECRE/ELENA Legal Update: Recent European case law

Pro Asyl campaign against the adoption of the amended EU Reception Conditions Directive: ‘Flight is not a crime’

Violating the rights of deportees: why some deportations to African states amount to refoulement

An introduction to Frontex: Human Rights

Tanzania’s Mtabila camp closed, refugees repatriated against their will

Refugee resettlement from Kenya: perspectives from Kakuma and Nairobi

To be or not to be: the ‘environmental refugee’?

Publications

Resources

Requests

Calls for papers

Conferences and workshops

Grants and awards

Vacancies