Word: homely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This first extensive survey of these all-volunteer vets shows that 92% want to serve their communities once they return home, and nearly as many believe their service should stand as an example for those who haven't served. Less than half of the 779 veterans who responded feel engaged in their communities, and only 13% strongly feel their transition back to civilian life is going well. "They are a vulnerable population, especially during the transition home," says the study. Those rocky returns have led to higher-than-average rates of homelessness, unemployment and suicide; the shootings at Fort Hood...
...convention on refugees that ensures legal protection, other assistance and economic rights of the refugees - does not recognize the other nationalities living in its borders as refugees. According to Basanta Raj Bhattarai, deputy coordinator of the National Unit for Coordination of Refugee Affairs at the Ministry of Home Affairs, the government has requested the UNHCR not to recognize any more cases of urban refugees living in its borders. There are fears, he says, that the country might turn into a safe haven for illegal immigrants. "We don't want Nepal to be a hub for human-trafficking," says Bhattarai...
...Fleeing war, drought and hunger at home, Somali refugees are scattered all over the world. The vast majority have escaped to neighboring African countries. After surviving death threats, kidnappings and the murders of their loved ones back home, the relatively few Somalis in Nepal are just whiling away their time, waiting for what Hassan calls a "durable solution" - repatriation to Somalia, resettlement in another country or local integration in Nepal. As in Hassan's case, they help each other out and also celebrate festivals like Eid together. But they also complain angrily about what they see as the indifference...
...patriarch of his family of nine, each day begins with the household chores. Olow wakes up early at 4 a.m., prepares food for his kids and sends them to school. By 8 a.m. he's already at the Lazimpat café meeting his countrymen, and he returns home only in the evening. Without the legal right to work and a monthly allowance of $55 handed out by the UNHCR, keeping food on the table can be a challenge, and the sense of isolation is strong. As Muslims living in a Hindu-majority nation, they have to travel several miles...
...refugee. But the government has yet to act on the ruling, citing a lack of resources to manage the refugees and arguing that such legislation could provide impetus for more refugees to go to Nepal. Goodman and others watching the situation are aware of the Somalis' desire to return home. But, she says, "the situation in Somalia has regrettably deteriorated significantly in 2009. We will not facilitate repatriation to a country where the lives of a returning refugee and their family will be in danger...