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Tuesday 16 March 2010

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Josephine, "I won't leave until I point out the rapists to the police"
		Josephine*, 17, was living alone on the streets of Port-au-Prince when the earthquake hit. She lost the few belongings she had - mostly clothes. She now stays at the Jean-Marie Vincent camp for displaced families. full testimony
Karrad, "If I stop working, how can we survive?"
		Karrad, 16, and his family fled the sectarian violence in Iraq following the US-led invasion in 2003 and came to Syria in 2005. Although the Syrian government provides Iraqi children with free education in its public schools, Karrad and his brother Ali, 12, cannot go to school because they are the breadwinners. Karrad told his story to IRIN: full testimony
Ali Saleh Ahmad, "It was a hard trip with Zaraa on my back"
		Ali Saleh Ahmad, 45, and his family arrived in the Al Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajjah after fighting between the Saudi army and Houthi-led Shia rebels in the northern Saada governorate forced them to flee their home in Ghafri village, Dhahiri district. full testimony
Nasser Ridhwan, "I had nothing in life but my wife, who I’ve now lost"
		Nasser Ridhwan, 78, is a recent arrival in the al-Mazraq camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate, some 130km southwest of his home village of Mashnaq, near Dukhan Mountain, which has become a battleground in fighting between the Saudi army and Houthi-led Shia rebels. full testimony
Dabbas Haile, "When life is hard, you have to be tough"
		I come from the Gash Barka region of Eritrea, near the Sudanese border. I escaped from prison and left my country on 1 January 2004 to come to Sudan and then Egypt, where I was jailed again. full testimony
Abdullah Kahiya, "Cairo is better than Mogadishu, but life is still hard"
		In the third of a series of interviews with refugees living in Cairo, IRIN spoke to Abdullah Bare Kahiya, 31, about why he left home, and the prospects he has in this host country. full testimony

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