Toni Oyry
Toni Oyry is a communications consultant and freelance journalist specialising in Arab-West relations and Middle East politics. He's one of 15 journalists who set up the London Book Project, a campaign aimed at sharpening the intellectual level of reading on the London Underground. Current projects include a documentary on Lebanon and an analysis of the representation of Hezbollah in the Western media for an MA in international journalism. A native Finn, Toni has been living in Britain since 1999.
The Iraqi refugees in Beirut who don't officially exist
By Toni Oyry
The checkpoints and barricades on nearly every corner of Beirut are frustrating for Beirutis and visiting westerners, but they're particularly bad news for Iraqi refugees fleeing violence in their home country.
Any Iraqi who doesn't have a valid visa faces imprisonment or deportation back to Iraq even if they've registered with the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) and hold refugee status.
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By Toni Oyry
The checkpoints and barricades on nearly every corner of Beirut are frustrating for Beirutis and visiting westerners, but they're particularly bad news for Iraqi refugees fleeing violence in their home country.
Any Iraqi who doesn't have a valid visa faces imprisonment or deportation back to Iraq even if they've registered with the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) and hold refugee status.
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Who polices the United Nations?
By Toni Oyry
The United Nations is supposed to play global policeman, but what happens when its own peacekeepers break the law?
That's a question raised by a string of incidents allegedly involving Pakistani and Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo in 2005.
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By Toni Oyry
The United Nations is supposed to play global policeman, but what happens when its own peacekeepers break the law?
That's a question raised by a string of incidents allegedly involving Pakistani and Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops in war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo in 2005.
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