Sentences with phrase «as displaced people»

After 1924, Ellis Island was host only to people who had problems with their paperwork, as well as displaced people and war refugees, certainly not as many people as it once had.
As displaced people, they have lost hope that they might eventually return to their homeland or survive in their present condition.
A moving account of the award - winning illustrator's childhood in Nazi - occupied Poland, her imprisonment in a series of concentration camps, and her life after the war as a displaced person in Sweden.
Hatoum's one - off performances often involved radical bodily actions and have a strong relationship to her experiences as a displaced person, forced to flee Lebanon with her parents during the 1970s.

Not exact matches

In the wake of a historic and deadly hurricane season, an app called Zello Walkie Talkie has become the communication tool of choice for both people working to help in cleanup and first responder efforts, such as the Cajun Navy in Houston, and those affected and displaced by these storms.
At least 363 people perished, and more than 2 million people were displaced as a result of these floods which received minimal media coverage globally.
As the article says, many more people will lose their jobs because of this protectionist garbage... why not re-employ the people who are displaced when Arrium goes under instead of three times as many at other companieAs the article says, many more people will lose their jobs because of this protectionist garbage... why not re-employ the people who are displaced when Arrium goes under instead of three times as many at other companieas many at other companies?
But by giving people easy ways to mix up their workouts — say, boxing one day, aerial yoga the next — the company hopes to displace standard monthly gym memberships as the default option for exercise.
«I take the mindset of we owe it to society as a whole to retrain people whose jobs we displace but if we can make them happier and have a better job and put their efforts, their talents, to better use, that's still a net win.»
The good news: Aid workers have the lessons of Katrina to fall back on as they try to help the thousands of people displaced by this storm.
Further, after the emergency has passed, these communities are often displaced or left out of rebuilding initiatives as developers and corporations use the destruction as an opening for permanent displacement of the people who live there and launch rebuilding initiatives aimed at turning a profit and privatizing public services.
Displaced workers are defined as persons 20 years of age and older who lost or left jobs because their plant or company closed or moved, there was insufficient work for them to do, or their position or shift was abolished.
Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1 million and damaged some 200,000 homes in a path of destruction stretching for more than 300 miles.
However, the total number of people displaced by the storm is still unknown, as at least 65 centres and numerous unofficial displacement sites and host family locations have yet to be assessed.
The council at the centre of the fire disaster says it will do its best to re-house families affected by the deadly fire in the borough but admits some could end up elsewhere in London - as hundreds of people have been left displaced.
Gordon described the current refugee crisis as the worst yet and one that will get worse for 65 million displaced people due to impacts of climate change and unresolved conflict.
What came of it was an orthodoxy, a statism, more rigorous and coercive than the one it displaced; a morality just as hypocritical as the old one, a social conformism just as blind, and a dictatorship that fooled the people with its lies.
The 27 - year - old from Erbil joined the anti-persecution charity Open Doors UK in encouraging ministers to commit to helping refugees and internally displaced people return home, as IS is gradually forced out.
Last week I wrote a post on spiritual refugees (people who have left the church and experience feelings of spiritual homelessness) and spiritually displaced persons (those who are still within the church and experience it as unhealthy for them but feel trapped at the same time).
Additionally, nearly 56,000 people were displaced, forced to flee into the forests, as mobs burned down more than 5,600 houses, 300 churches, and other Christian institutions.
Those who displace the elite as guests, persons the Pharisees and their kind would never recognize as being worthy of an invitation to the king's palace, must be made worthy.
According to the index, the world has become less peaceful in the last eight years, and one of the consequences is that more than 50 million people have been forced from their homes as refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs).
The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.
The specific issue is whether in light of Cobb's general understanding of God's providential guidance we can view him as indeed present within individual persons without displacing their freedom and independence as self - determining subjects.
game you speak of, but as someone who also found most church going unprofitable some years ago, that's not an argument that holds any real credit (I now know plenty of people who are likewise displaced from regular church - going, who still have a faith, so you are correct).
Persecution charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide say an estimated 170,000 people in Benue state have been displaced internally as a result of herder militia violence, meaning this attack on St Ignatius isn't a one - off event but just the latest horrific incident of the same nature.
What we object to is, first, the judicial manufacture of constitutional law to displace without constitutional warrant the duly enacted judgments of the people and their elected representatives, and, second, the idea of judicial supremacy that treats the executive and legislative branches of the federal government as impotent to do anything but bow down before unconstitutional exercises of judicial power, however blatant and destructive of the constitutional order.
In fact what he has shown in 1 season the only person he couldn't displace on the team would be Sanchez as far as the wing is concerned, everyone else would see the bench or not even get picked.
In addition, we carry out information, education, communication and advocacy programmes; STI and HIV / AIDS prevention, detection and treatment; as well as health, education and support programmes designed specifically to benefit vulnerable communities, such as adolescents, refugees and internally displaced people.
As of late 2017, over 3 million people became internally displaced in the country as a consequence of the mass - scale violencAs of late 2017, over 3 million people became internally displaced in the country as a consequence of the mass - scale violencas a consequence of the mass - scale violence.
By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
The experience of colonialism created a strong sentiment against intervention among newly independent states, but as the Cold War era ended, Francis Deng, then Special Representative of the UN Secretary - General on Internally Displaced Persons, developed the idea that «sovereignty entails rights contingent on «sovereignty as responsibility».»
We are extremely grateful for your government's support in the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the North East of Nigeria, as well as humanitarian assistance to the Internally Displaced Persons, through agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development and other international partners.
Stern notes that these people are not «anti-zionists» but rather object to the way they perceive that Zionism (as they understand it) is used to justify expansionist policies in Israel, displace indigenous people, and racist propaganda from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The election in 2010 led to 100,000 displaced people, 3,000 people were killed as a result of the election between Laurent Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara.
So even though free trade means open global markets and free trade the migrations are seen as a problem to people who feel displaced by immigrant labor.
«In the same vein, crack troops of 22 Brigade of Operation, LAFIYA DOLE, displayed gallantry on 4th October at about 6:05 pm by intercepting 3 Boko Haram terrorists disguised as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and trying to infiltrate a barrier.
We must not ignore the commitment and relentless efforts of Governor Shettima, who is pumping large chunk of state's share from the Federation Account to address the security challenges, the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) as well as the rehabilitation and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by the terrorists in the state (Link: https://goo.gl/P6n5XH).
From the President who has refused to act on investigative reports submitted to him on grievous allegations of diverting over a billion naira meant for resettlement of Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal under the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) and the miraculous discovery of 13billion naira in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos under the supervision of the Director of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke, to the Head of Service of the Federation, Oyo - Ita Winifred Ekanem, who connived with others to reinstate into active duty and promote Abdulrasheed Maina, the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, who allegedly stole over 6billion naira pension fund; the Chief of Staff to President Buhari now renamed the «Thief of Staff», Abba Kyari, who allegedly received a bribe of 500million naira to negotiate a fine reduction for MTN Nigeria, and has continuously been in the heart of every sharp practices in the Presidency; the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who allegedly received a kickback of 3.8 billion naira in exchange for marginal oilfield using his brother, Dumebi Kachikwu as front; the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, who was the brain behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai who during his time as the Director of Procurement at the Army Headquarters allegedly diverted funds meant to equip the Military into buying choice properties worth millions of dollar in Dubai; the Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who allegedly embezled State Universal Education Board (SUBEB) funds as the Governor of Ekiti State; the Minister for Interior, Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau who was indicted by a Presidential investigative committee probing Arm procurement for awarding ghost contracts worth $ 930,500,690 with others while as the Chief of Army Staff between 2008 - 2010 and one of the brains behind the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina; the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi alleged to have stolent 142billion naira as the Governor of Rivers State.
The Nigerian Army as the «Best Public Institution in Nigeria of the Year Award», to THE NIGERIAN, was the collective decision of its fans and readers to commend all the officers and men of the Nigerian Army for their relentless sacrifices in combating terrorism, extremism and separatism within the rules of engagement and best human rights convention in its pursuit of defending the territorial integrity, sovereignty of the state and the numerous corporate social responsibilities like provision of pipe borne water, educational support, medical assistance to various communities and the internally displaced persons in Nigeria, as well as sanitation exercise and construction of roads.
The delegation would rub minds with Federal and State authorities, as well as military leadership on the resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons, in Nigeria.
The singer who was not happy with the situation of the Displaced Persons during the visit noted that the lingering insurgency in the area which left thousands of people dead, millions injured and displaced from their homes with property worth billions of naira destroyed have nothing to do with religion as insinuated, but has do with Displaced Persons during the visit noted that the lingering insurgency in the area which left thousands of people dead, millions injured and displaced from their homes with property worth billions of naira destroyed have nothing to do with religion as insinuated, but has do with displaced from their homes with property worth billions of naira destroyed have nothing to do with religion as insinuated, but has do with politics.
Report says suspected Boko Haram bomber, who disguised as a worshipper detonated his explosives at a camp for people displaced by the insurgency in Dikwa, a town 90 kilometres (55 miles) east of Maiduguri.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday instructed the Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, and governors of affected states to immediately commence investigations into the cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in Internally Displaced Persons Camps as contained in a report by the Human Rights Watch.
The Organised Labour said their earlier call on the Federal Government to treat Kogi workers as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and send relief materials to them was borne out of the pitiable situation of the workers as a result of non-payment of their salaries between a period of three to twenty - two months.
As the holder of such a sensitive office that had all the information about security and other sundry issues at his disposal, Dasuki opined that security agencies in the country particularly the military had their hands full presently and were focused on routing the Boko Haram terrorists menace, whose success will also benefit the elections as internally displaced persons would be able to go back to their communities and votAs the holder of such a sensitive office that had all the information about security and other sundry issues at his disposal, Dasuki opined that security agencies in the country particularly the military had their hands full presently and were focused on routing the Boko Haram terrorists menace, whose success will also benefit the elections as internally displaced persons would be able to go back to their communities and votas internally displaced persons would be able to go back to their communities and vote.
Meanwhile, as part of their contribution to the host community and also activities marking the Nigerian Army Day Celebration, troops of 28 Task Force Brigade Nigerian Army are right now at the Internally Displaced Persons Camp, Chibok rendering free medical service to the community.
Following their sold - out shows Minsk, 2011 and Trash Cuisine, BFT turn their unflinching eye towards the global issue of world destruction, as they tell the stories of real people displaced by catastrophic man - made and natural disasters.
«As we speak there is a huge influx of displaced persons of over 1,000 including women and children running away from their homes to Ugba, the headquaters of Logo same as Zaki Biam in Ukum, for safetAs we speak there is a huge influx of displaced persons of over 1,000 including women and children running away from their homes to Ugba, the headquaters of Logo same as Zaki Biam in Ukum, for safetas Zaki Biam in Ukum, for safety.
According to him, President Buhari believes that Mustapha, who has inspired many Nigerians as well as national and international humanitarian organisations, earned the award because of his courage, hard work and extraordinary commitment to the welfare of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country, even at the risk of his life.
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