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Iran’s official news agency IRNA reports that about 140-thousand people, most of Afghan ethnic origin, have been deported from Iran so far this year, ostensibly because they came to Iran for economic reasons and were not actually seeking political asylum.
Indeed, the U.N. has praised the Islamic Republic for its efforts and is calling on the international community to provide more aid to help displaced persons.
“Amnesty International” is calling on people around the world to take action; to hold community fund-raisers and to speak out for the millions worldwide who have been forced to leave their homes.
Amnesty International encourages donations that will help fund more subsistence programs for refugees in settlements like those in Ilam, Ahwaz, and Sistan-Baluchistan provinces.
2008 is the seventh year the United Nations has set aside one special day to consider the plight of refugees, of which there are millions around the world.
People who through no fault of their own are living desperately, on their own. To them, every day is refugee day.
"And for six years we are refugee without crimes, without freedom, without rights, without life, without good situation, good nature. We are different from all these things. And of course we are living inside a jail, like dirt."
