Quick facts
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28 |
Years JRS has been serving and accompanying refugees and forcibly displaced persons in Thailand |
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9 |
Number of official refugee camps along Thai-Burma border |
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141,502 |
Population of ten refugee camps (including Wieng Heng) in Thailand as of December 2007 |
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200,000 |
Burmese refugees, including ethnic Shan, believed to be living outside the camps in Thailand |
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40,760 |
Refugees in Mae La camp, the largest of nine camps in Thailand |
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20 |
Members of Committee for Coordination of Services to Displaced Persons in Thailand (CCSDPT) |
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62% |
Percent of registered camp refugees who are ethnic Karen |
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13% |
Percent of registered camp refugees who are ethnic Karenni |
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14,636 |
Burmese refugees who were resettled in 2007 |
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15,046 |
Refugees, including Burmese, who were resettled in 2007 |
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10,380 |
Refugees resettled in the United States in 2007 |
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6 |
Programmes provided by JRS Thailand |
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7,658 |
Students supported by JRS in the two Karenni camps in Mae Hong Son Province |
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3,000 |
Refugees who have benefited from JRS Vocational Training and Non-Formal Education programme in Mae Hong Son |
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5 |
Burmese community schools supported by JRS in Ranong Province |
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1,200 |
Migrant children supported by JRS in Ranong Province |
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3,000 |
Asylum seekers who received counseling, legal support and financial assistance from JRS Urban Refugee Bangkok programme in 2007 |
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2,000 |
Shan families supported by JRS in Chiang Mai Province |
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2,000,000 |
Estimated migrant workers in Thailand, of whom at least 80% are from Burma |
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485,925 |
Registered Burmese migrant workers in Thailand as of June 2007 |
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100 |
Burmese who are arrested and brought into Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre every day |
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16,000 |
Patients who were treated at JRS medical clinic in the Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre in a year |
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500-600 |
People assisted by JRS Release Programme in Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre in a year |
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200-300 |
People who are deported through the Mae Sot Immigration Detention Centre every day |
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500,000 |
Internally displaced persons in Eastern Burma in 2006 |