Sentences with phrase «last displaced person»

Ernst Haas's Last Displaced Person Boat from 1951 documents that for a limited time, the U.S. authorized permanent residency for 200,000 Europeans displaced by WWII.

Ernst Haas Last Displaced Person Boat (View of immigrant ship in New York Harbor, bound for Ellis Island), 1951 Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1951 12 3/4 x 10 3/8 inches

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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...

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).

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).

«Those needs have increased since Haiti suffered extensive damage during Hurricane Matthew last year, when hundreds of people were killed and thousands of families were displaced,» Clarke said.

In 2015, he came to the University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus for NPP TESCON programme when I was NDC TEIN president and preached a very terrible message by asking Ghanaians to make sacrifices like the people of Ivory Coast did some years ago and that «a country smaller in size and population compared to Ghana, which had endured bloody dispute in their last election, resulting in the loss and displacing of thousands of lives, had, in a short period, turned around their fortunes.

Last year, a downpour displaced scores of residents and two people lost their lives.

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has donated 421 trailers of rice totalling 252,666 bags valued at N3.78 billion to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the last 22 months.

A special exercise codenamed Operation LAST HOLD, aimed at completely recapturing the northern Borno from remnant of Boko Haram and return displaced persons to their homes...

Terrorism: 10,000 killed, 2million displaced in Nigeria - Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday night disclosed that over 10,000 people have been killed while over two million Nigerians have been internally displaced by terrorists in the country in the last six years.

Legros helped organise the first emergency use of the vaccine last year, in four camps of people displaced by fighting in South Sudan.

These revelations, made public only late last month, have rekindled a broader debate about how to manage contact as isolated indigenous peoples increasingly emerge from the forest, displaced by mining, logging, and illegal activities (Science, 5 June, pp. 1061, 1072, 1080).

Nochimson's article details the origins of this «eternal studio in the Eternal City» (it was movie - mad Mussolini's baby), its brief role as housing for people displaced by World War II, and its reemergence as a major site of spectacular movie projects, not only for Federico Fellini (whose La dolce vita, Amarcord, and And the Ship Sails On are just three of the many projects he filmed partly there) but also for Jean Renoir (The Golden Coach) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor).

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

When I started writing this piece last fall, the number of Syrians killed was said by the United Nations to be about 125,000 people; now it is closer to 500,000 with 4,000,000 displaced in Turkey or Europe while 6.36 million people have no home within the country.

Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as the costs of displacing people, ecological damage, and land inundation became more visible.

In the last 20 years, there have been 6,457 floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other climatic events that meet the UN definition of a disaster − that is, they killed people, displaced communities, or caused damage calculated in millions.

Around the world, large dams have displaced 40 - 80 million people in the last 60 years, with indigenous, tribal and peasant communities being the most severely impacted.

Last week, we heard news of massive floods causing untold damage and killing and displacing thousands of people around the world, in the southern United States, South Asia, West Africa, and Yemen.