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Chris McCall reports that rescuers found 10 survivors over the weekend from a ferry disaster in which nearly 500 people, most of them Christian refugees, are feared to have died. Most of the passengers were Christians fleeing from religious violence in the Moluccas.

Jacki speaks with Jany Hansal, the President of DESA, a woman's humanitarian organization based in Dubrovnic, Croatia. Since 1993, DESA has been helping former refugees from the Balkan Wars cope with loss and tragedy in their lives by reviving the ancient crafts of their region. For more on DESA, go to http://desa.dubrovnik.org. (5:00) (Note: Site will open in a new browser window.)

NPR'S Vicky O'hara reports on an Amnesty International report released today that is highly critical of Israel. The report says Israel broke international law when it shelled a U-N compound last spring in Southern Lebanon. The London-based human rights group says the shelling was deliberate. More than one-hundred refugees were killed.

a million Rwandan refugees. The abrupt return has raised doubts among members of the multinational peace force for Zaire about the need for military intervention.

Chris Nuttall reports from Ankara, Turkey, on an effort by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to convince a group of Turkish Kurds to leave their camps in northern Iraq and return to Turkey. The Kurds have been in the camps since 1994 when they fled fighting between Turkish security forces and Kurdish separatist guerrillas.

NPR's Jackie Northam reports on members of a wandering band of young Sudanese refugees who are being resettled in the American Midwest. After losing their parents during the country's 40 years of civil war, thousands of orphans streaming into Kenya became known as the 'Lost Boys of Sudan.'

The Lebanese government faces a number of problems in the wake of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, including how to help thousands of refugees returning to their homes in Beirut's suburbs and the country's south.

International aid agencies bracing for a flow of refugees out of Iraq see the opposite. Officials in Jordan say few are leaving Iraq. Instead, thousands of Iraqi exiles are leaving Jordan to return home. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

Dina Temple-Raston reports on refugees fleeing western Sudan as Arab militia sweep through villages in violent raids. The United Nations has called the raids in Sudan an ethnic cleansing campaign against black Sudanese.

The BBC's Martin Dawes reports from Bukavu, Zaire, on recent fighting that threatens to touch off another humanitarian crisis in central Africa. More than two hundred thousand Hutu refugees have fled their camps in eastern Zaire as the Zairean army battles Zairean Tutsi rebels. The United Nations has evacuated aid workers from the area, and is appealing for an end to the clashes.