Press release round-up: Human Trafficking, Iraqi Refugees, Rohingyas, Statelessness/Sri Lanka, US Immig. Reform

This sampling of recent press releases highlights a range of forced migration developments:

Immigration Reform Must Protect the Persecuted and Uphold U.S. Values (Amnesty International USA, 26 March 2007) [text]

Iraqi Volunteers; Iraqi Refugees: What Is America's Obligation?, Statement of Ellen Sauerbrey, Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia (26 March 2007) [text]

Rohingya Refugees from Burma Mistreated in Bangladesh; Thailand Also Forcing Asylum Seekers Back into Burma (Human Rights Watch, 27 March 2007) [text]

UNHCR launches media campaign against statelessness in Sri Lanka (26 March 2007) [text]

UNODC launches Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN Office on Drugs and Crime, (26 March 2007) [text]

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