November 10th marks another BlogersUnite day.  There are thousands of bloggers out there and the blogosphere is a great place to help inform and influence popular opinion.  Previously they have chosen to focus on other important issues such as human rights, encouraging acts of kindness, mobilizing against abuse & promoting organ donation.  This time they chose to discuss refugees, and challenged bloggers to learn about refugee issues, post an image/link back to the BloggersUnite page and to help raise awareness about the millions of displaced people around the world. 

A friend of mine is in Thailand now for Inter Pares working on this issue, so I thought I would try to spend a bit of time talking about what little I know about refugees in this area.  I've also been aware of what is happening in Burma for a while and have previously blogged about the red shirt campaign and efforts to organize opposition online. October 4th, 2007 there was also an international campaign to get bloggers to raise awareness about Burma.