Sentences with phrase «civil war refugees»

A few miles from Punta Gorda is the site of the former Toledo settlement where American Civil War refugees settled.

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Talks will center around the European refugee crisis, Syria's civil war, the recent Iranian nuclear arms agreement, and climate change.

He did so by overcoming some serious adversity; he was a refugee during the First Liberian Civil War, according to The Guardian.

(In response to the influx of Syrians fleeing the civil war, some European countries have effectively shut down routes refugees commonly use to travel beyond Greece, leaving them in limbo.)

A number of factors have contributed, including concerns about dropping oil prices, slowing growth in China and geopolitical tensions (among them, concerns over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis and ISIS attacks).

that minimizes the historical suffering of women and minority groups in this country, 2) an overwrought persecution complex that confuses sharing civil rights with others with being persecuted by them, and 3) a persistent fear of the perceived «other» — Muslims, LGBT people, immigrants, refugees, etc. — that results in culture wars meant to «take back» the public square.

More than half of Americans (53 %) said that not accepting refugees would be the best approach the US could take regarding those fleeing civil war in Syria, according to a poll Bloomberg conducted from November 16 — 17 of 628 Americans.

«Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.

Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war.

More than 3 million refugees, including 600,000 Christians, have fled Syria's civil war and the rise of ISIS.

Women suffer the most due to civil wars, being subject to rape, becoming single parents, made refugees and having to bring up children without proper schooling, social services and their traditional cultural environment of home, the extended family and village or town.

For example, one of the Sojourners» original goals was to serve some of the tens of thousands of refugees displaced to San Francisco as a result of civil war in El Salvador.

Kerry argued that the refugee crisis from the Syrian civil war was destabilizing Jordan.

It also flagged the displacement of Rohingya refugees, and the continuing civil war in Yemen as further major causes of concern, heading into 2018.

Look it will obviously take more than saving a few refugees to solve this problem but it doesn't seem like Assad is going away anytime soon so if we can help some people while we pursue our larger goal of ending the civil war then I'm in favor of helping.

Long civil wars lead to many more deaths (both military and civilian), wreck economies, and generate massive flows of refugees and internally displaced persons.

@Bregalad The waves of refugees are not because of the so - called dictators but from encouraging rebellions and civil wars by the western powers.

This state of ongoing civil war makes it effectively impossible to repatriate refugees to Syria.

«Shadow Cabinet members agreed to call David Cameron to account on the unanswered questions raised by his case for bombing: including how it would accelerate a negotiated settlement of the Syrian civil war; what ground troops would take territory evacuated by ISIS; military co-ordination and strategy; the refugee crisis and the imperative to cut - off of supplies to ISIS.»

Weighing in on one of the most contentious issues in American politics — the danger posed to host countries by the 4.8 million people who have fled from Syria's civil war — Syrian President Bashar al - Assad told Yahoo News that some of the refugees are «definitely» terrorists.

In 1986, at the height of the civil war in El Salvador, the Suffolk County Legislature declared the county a place of sanctuary for refugees fleeing conflict in Central America.

To recap: While the Syrian Civil War was raging, ISIS was rising, and refugees were swamping Syria's neighbors and surging into Europe, the Obama administration let in less than a trickle of refugees.

While at a public school near the Zahle camp, Tenney said she heard from a Syrian refugee students who asked for American help in ending the civil war in his homeland.

The researchers finally examined the distribution of the A allele in a group of 347 survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide who had fled the civil war and were living in a Ugandan refugee camp.

Somali refugees, in particular, faced multiple stressors as they adjusted to their new lives in Sweden and Minnesota: They had fled civil war, lost a supportive tribal culture, and replaced a diet of fruit, fresh meat and grains with processed food.

Salvadorean women refugees suffering psychological trauma after a long civil war, on the other hand, often experience something called calorias,...

Saad Abu Hammour, secretary - general of the Jordan Valley Authority, told the Jerusalem hearing that the scarcity of water in Jordan has been exacerbated by the arrival of more than 250,000 Syrian refugees into the country since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

And Africa continues to be plagued by civil wars, drought and desertification, political instability and the problem of refugees, deteriorating health infrastructures, and institutional decay.

More than a million people live in the volcano's shadow, many of them refugees from years of civil war and the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda.

The researchers recruited nearly 450 Swiss volunteers, as well as about 200 refugees of the Rwandan civil war.

Countries worldwide have had similar debates with regards to refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria.

Starring activist / writer Anthonythasan Jesuthasan in the eponymous role, he's a refugee from Sri Lanka, where he was a Tamil Tiger in the civil war that saw his battalion wiped out and his... Read more»

Orphaned in Africa as a child born to English parents, she returns to their homeland as a refugee, fleeing a violent civil war.

The first — and more involving one — is simply observing how a group of Sri Lankan refugees, after their displacement during the final part of a 25 - year civil war within the island nation, adjusts to living in France.

The film tells the story of young refugees from Sudan caught in the middle of a civil war over religion and resources in the late 1980s.

After fleeing their country's civil war, more than 10,000 Syrians — half of them children — are now refugees in Ontario, Canada.

Though the civil war has raged since 2011 with more than 400,000 casualties and millions of refugees, these boys bear little obvious impact of the traumas they've been through and the elaborate screening process it took to get here — and we don't ask.

She previously worked at the refugee camps during Libya's civil war, at Bureau de Cooperation Tunisie - Denmark on youth development projects in Tunis, and at the Carter Center monitoring 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections, in Cairo.

There she received her social work certificate and began working with refugees of the Sierra Leone civil war, helping to heal them from the traumas of war.

Released in 2006, this online game put players in the role of a refugee in civil war - torn Darfur.

The civil war in Syria is a major current example, but that definition is not new, as refugees have existed throughout the last century.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

This fictionalized story of a young boy's survival of the Sudanese civil war does not cover his eventual relocation to a Western country as a refugee.

It was the peak of Iraq's civil war, and absolutely no one was travelling into Iraq on a happy journey; a million and a half refugees had already fled the other way, to Syria, and they were happy for nothing but to be alive.

Dolen Perkins - Valdez, author of the best - selling Wench, returns to 19th - century America with her latest novel, Balm, which follows a group of refugees as they attempt to survive in the wake of the Civil War.

Although Cyprus is part of Europe and in the EU it is close to the Middle East, which is a bit unnerving when you realise only a hundred miles away there is a civil war raging in Syria.Tom has been blogging about Cyprus for many years and in this book we go from corruption in Cyprus to refugees from Syria landing in Cyprus and the RAF bombing the terrorist group ISIS.To...

The massive dimensions of Syria's refugee crisis — and the search for solutionsThe civil war in Syria has forced some 10 million people — more than half the country's population — from their homes and communities, creating one of the largest human displacements since the end of World War war in Syria has forced some 10 million people — more than half the country's population — from their homes and communities, creating one of the largest human displacements since the end of World War War II.

The town was built by refugees fleeing civil war between Mestizos and Indians in Mexico.

As the Syrian civil war continues with no end in sight, thousands of Syrian refugees have reached the Turkish coasts around Mersin, turning to human smuggling operations as a way to reach Europe.

A four - sided vertical LED sign swinging from a robotic art suspended from the gallery ceiling, MOVE references the international refugee crisis and the devastating humanitarian consequences of Syria's ongoing civil war, displaying some 131 individual eyewitness accounts.