Sentences with phrase «afghan refugee»

18 - 20 October 2017, Vranje, Serbia: In partnership with Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, UNODC initiated piloting of «Strong Families» programme for the prevention of drugs, crime and violence on Afghan refugee families currently stranded in refuge reception centers in Republic of Serbia.

Atlanta JAG carries out aid mission for Afghan refugee village By Meredith Hobbs, Staff Reporter, Fulton County Daily Report

Was here on local TV; an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, complaining to the reporters that:» he doesn't have enough food for his 3 wifes and 14 children»... You go and tell those ladies, to have a say about the number of children.

Three personal narratives by Afghan refugee children living in Pakistan share one theme: nostalgia for a homeland that is known only through memories and a desire to return in safety one day.

Alternating between contemporary Afghanistan and Pakistan, parallel stories relate the many effects of war on two very different young women — an Afghan refugee girl and an American teacher newly converted to Islam.

He hopes that his future work with the agency will take him to Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan.

After 9/11, however, he hit the road again, this time to visit Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and to make a journey to Kabul.

We have personally experienced the lack of testing & remediation for dyslexia for our Afghan refugee boy, whose younger brother's gifted status proves that the problem is not literacy, but instructional.

The Afghan refugee factor was also very dominant in Afghanistan - Pakistan border area.

If Pakistan feels at some stage that its interest in securing a friendly regime is being obstructed by hardline figures in the Afghan government, then it has the lever of raising the issue of Afghan refugee repatriation to extract due concessions in the process.

The brothers» entrepreneurial streak came from their parents, Afghan refugees who arrived in the U.S. in 1983 with virtually nothing and promptly started a visa and passport procurement company.

Several hundred of these Western Christians are working with Christian organizations aiding the 3 million Afghan refugees and the indigenous poor.

For example, of the nearly 9,000 Afghan refugees resettled in the US in the past 12 years, just over 1 percent are Christians.

The consequent relative stability in Afghanistan will prevent the worsening of an already devastating security situation, and also help towards the goal of repatriating the officially estimated 1.6 million registered and 1 million unregistered Afghan refugees.

In November 2001, Marsden visited Pakistan and the Afghan border to highlight the plight of Afghan refugees living in camps who had fled the war.

The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet military intervention, the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.

Made with a cast of amateurs, the picture deals with life in an Iranian city near the Afghanistan border, where Afghan refugees — who have lived in poverty since the Soviet invasion of 1979 — eke out an existence as laborers.

There is also a huge population of Afghan refugees kids living at the borders of Balochistan who had no help at all.

Depression and posttraumatic stress disorder among a community sample of adolescent and young adult Afghan refugees.

Not exact matches

Known as «Afghan Girl,» journalist Steve McCurry's photograph of 12 - year - old Afghani refugee Sharbat Gula was the result of a five - minute session in 1984.

Although conversion results are unknown — only Christians who convert to Islam are news items — foreign church funds do sustain the social service projects for the refugees, whether Muslim Afghans or the smaller numbers of» Iraqi and Iranian Christian refugees.

Similar violent clashes have unraveled between Afghan and African migrants and refugees.

The fundamental problem is that Germany may been willing to accept educated Syrian refugees but it has no interest in screening them and make the necessary work to keep out the unwanted Afghans or Ethiopians.

In October 2001, Marsden flew to Pakistan and the Afghan border to highlight the effects of the US bombing raids which had sent waves of refugees across to Pakistan.

She has worked extensively with the African refugee population in her community, teaches online through the Afghan Women's Writing Project, has... (more)

The story brought to life issues of refugees and immigration This book also shows us a side of what the Afghan people have had to deal with that is not always portrayed.

She has worked extensively with the African refugee population in her community, teaches online through the Afghan Women's Writing Project, has been involved with aiding Rwandan genocide survivors and is committed to working to end genocide on a global scale.

Alighiero Boetti, the subject of a major survey in 2012 at Tate Modern, the Reina Sofia and MoMA NY, is represented by several important works, including his Mappa from 1979 (illustrated left, estimate: # 450,000 - 650,000)-- part of the famous series of embroidered world maps that he made between 1971 and 1994 in partnership with Afghan women weavers living in Kabul and later as refugees in Peshawar — are the best - known and most - loved of all his works.

Throw some coin at the International Refugee Assistance Project, which provides legal representation to at - risk refugees, like LGBTI individuals, religious minorities, survivors of sexual violence, and people being threatened for having assisted the United States in the Iraq and Afghan wars.