Toni Oyry
Toni Oyry is a journalist working for Al Jazeera English and a freelance communications consultant specialising in Arab-West relations and Middle East politics. A native Finn, Toni has been living in Britain since 1999.
Iraqi refugees see little hope of returning home
For Ziad, an Iraqi Christian exiled in Lebanon, returning home just isn't an option. "I lost my business, my house and my wife. My only hope is to be resettled with my children to another country," he said. ...
The Iraqi refugees in Beirut who don't officially exist
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. ...
Who polices the United Nations?
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. ...
