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repatriation

The transfer of a person to their country of origin. While the term could refer to any person regardless of their health status, repatriation is often a euphemism for the shipping of a body back to the person’s home country for burial.

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Grand Chief John said repatriation plans must be developed with the full and active participation of Indigenous peoples.

Plan to repatriate Indigenous treasures must be developed with 'active' hdigenous participation

Foreshadowing the penultimate chapter in which Janes explores how individual leaders operate within (or against) institutions, the chapters by Blackfoot contributors also expand the cast of characters essential to the Blackfoot story of repatriation and cultural rebuilding.

Gerald T. Conaty, ed. We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence

The DFA earlier raised Alert Level 4 in the four violence-stricken countries, implementing a mandatory repatriation of Filipinos in these troubled areas.

Repatriation efforts gets P50-M boost

Turnbull's useful introduction provides a brief history of the repatriation movement in Australia and sets out the context in which the 2005 conference was developed.

The Long Way Home: The meaning and values of repatriation

The road was closed for the 10-minute ceremony as people packed the street to watch as the same standard bearers that have attended so many repatriations lowered their standards for the last time.

Enduring sorrow in town

Repatriation grants help with costs associated with the transfer of human remains and cultural items from institutions to tribes.

$1.5 million in grants announced under Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

13) As this Note demonstrates, the legal requirements states must satisfy to mandate repatriation under the 1951 Refugee Convention are not clear, and confusion exists at the intersection of voluntary and mandated repatriation.

Forced to flee and forced to repatriate? How the cessation clause of article 1C(5) and (6) of the 1951 Refugee Convention operates in international law and practice

The process resumed at the Voluntary Repatriation Centre at Azakhel, in Nowshera district.

Process for Afghan displaced persons' return resumes

The UNHCR will facilitate repatriation from the voluntary repatriation centres at Azakhel, Nowshera in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Baleli, Quetta in Balochistan.

Pakistan welcomes Ghani's plan for talks

ISLAMABAD -- The UN Refugee Agency's voluntary repatriation programme for registered Afghan refugees is scheduled to resume on Thursday March 1, 2018 after the winter break.

Afghans refugees voluntary repatriation process to resume on March 1: UNHCR

Profit repatriation during the July-January period of FY 2017-18 registered a 26 percent rise year-on-year (YoY), reported an English daily.

Profit repatriation increased 26pc, touch $1.343b during July-Jan of FY18

The political administration expects some 12, 000 families to return from Afghanistan by the end of the four-phase repatriation process.