Search for the Afghan Girl

Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Asia, Afghanistan, Detective Work, Facial Recognition, Fbi, Gaze, Girl, Little Luck, Missing And Exploited Children, Missing Person, National Center For Missing And Exploited Children, National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer, National Geographic Magazine, Photograph, Plight, Recognition Techniques, Refugee Camp, Refugees, Search For The Afghan Girl, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Mccurry, War In Afghanistan

The search for the mysterious “Afghan Girl,” whose haunting, green-eyed gaze captivated the world in a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine cover photograph, takes EXPLORER on a world-wide journey in an attempt to solve the case of a missing person. In January 2002, photographer Steve McCurry, who took the 1984 photograph and has been searching for the [...]

Escape from North Korea

Posted by Matt in June 4th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Koreas, Brother And Sister, Brother Sister, China, Chinese Border, Chopping Board, Collapse, Darkness, Exclusive Report, Execution, Exodus, Immigrants, Journey, Korea Government, Kwan, North Face, North-Korea, Refugees, Safe House, South-Korea, Thailand, Tumen River, Wall Border

So many people have defected from North Korea that the government is now building a wall along the Chinese border. This exclusive report follows one family’s dangerous exodus.
At a safe house in China, a brother and sister collapse into each other arms. For months, ‘Uncle Jung’ has been trying to smuggle his sister and her [...]

UN and Google to Map Global Conflict Regions

Posted by Matt in April 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Google Earth, Burmese Refugees, Conflict Regions, Global Conflict, Google Earth, Refugee Agency, Refugees, Somalia

A new partnership between the UN refugee agency and Google allows users of the powerful Google Earth search tool to track refugees in global conflict regions. By Patrick McGroarty more…

Baghdad’s Refugees: Trapped in the Green Zone
UN Representative in Somalia: ‘They Are Dying in Our Arms’
Exploiting Thailand’s Burmese Refugees: The Children of the Mae Sot Dump

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