Refugee Videos

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Jennifer Utz' documentary in production, From Baghdad to Brooklyn, tells the story of Mohamed, from his exile from Iraq after Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for the killing of homosexuals in the worst, most severe way possible. Mohamed, who is gay, had to go into exile. Over a million Iraqis are still displaced. http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com http://www.iraqirefugeestories.org/ http://visionon.tv

"Faraj the Boxer," one of Jordan's best athletes, struggles to live down the consequences of a very controversial decision.

http://www.scmp.com/video/ When we think about illegal immigrants or IIs, we normally picture mainlanders sneaking into Hong Kong. However, one man thinks that recently there has been an increase in South Asian "system abusers" (as he calls them) who are heading in the opposite direction. This Kowloon-based immigration consultant, who has requested his identity to remain anonymous, thinks he has located an "unofficial border crossing" on the banks of Deep Bay, north of Tin Shui Wai and south of Shenzhen. From Lau Fau Shan, a busy fish market, mainland China is visible through the haze and it is here that he suspects many people cross here illegally - under the noses of the nearby police station and the Immigration Department. The passengers, he claims, are asylum seekers or those who have refugee status and therefore cannot leave or enter Hong Kong through official channels. In this video, we try to witness these vessels departing Lau Fau Shan.

This video is the result of a 2 week workshop with youth with refugee experience. The workshop explored new media, representations, and concepts of family and home.

The UK aid organisation, Muslim Aid, has been looking at humanitarian conditions in Gaza and in the Jabaliya refugee camp. Their video pictures compiled here in a special news report.

Asylum seekers in Bury talk about the struggles of a life spent waiting for Home Office approval