Authorities Should Take Action for Refugees NOW: Young Refugee Woman

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"Christine is a 22-year-old Karen refugee who lives in Mae La refugee camp with her husband and young daughter. She has lived there for seven years ?as a prisoner? inside the barbed wire fence, and now teaches in one of the post-ten schools in the camp. In this interview, Christine talks about the desperation and lack of hope in Mae La as uncertainty about the future mounts and refugees feel that they have no control over their own future. She fears that authorities will organise forced repatriation although they ?don?t know where to go? and ?nothing has changed for the poor?. Christine recently completed Burma Link?s AOC (Agents of Change) training and she is eager to have her voice heard. She wants authorities to take action NOW to help refugees like her and her young daughter."

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Burma Link

Date of entry: 

2016-03-20

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English

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