Sentences with phrase «as war refugees»

Hüseyin's family just relocated from Syria as war refugees.

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In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

China has started building refugee camps on the North Korean border, in what the New York Times interprets as a sign of real fears of a war between the rogue state and the U.S..

As the European Union tries to tackle the biggest migrant crisis it has been faced with since World War Two, it also seeks Turkey's help to stem the flow of refugees and is pressuring Ankara to hold up its part of a $ 3 billion (# 2.3 billion) deal struck a few months ago.

Over 13.5 million refugees have been displaced as a result of the war.

Sponsor homeless alcoholics and released prisoners, much as churches sponsor refugees from war - devastated countries.

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.

One of the agencies, World Relief, was started in 1945 as the War Relief Commission when evangelicals wanted to help refugees fleeing war - torn EuroWar Relief Commission when evangelicals wanted to help refugees fleeing war - torn Eurowar - torn Europe.

Australia is walking away from its international obligations to people fleeing war and persecution — commonly known as refugees or asylum seekers.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

They are multiculture and religions and no longer what they were but rather natives, while those who came were imported Jews who been kicked out of Europe into the Mideast as temporary refugees due wars against Hitler System but suddenly after a while they started acting as rightful owners fighting British troops and using pressure on America and England as founders of the UN until they got the American president to sign the do - cu - ment of Founding of The Republic of Israel as heard the president was waken up after midnight to sign it while still wearing his sleeping pajama...?

His early years were spent as a cattle herder in the area known as South Sudan, but, like many from the region, was forced to live in a refugee camp after his nation became divided by war.

After losing his own father to war, he became one of the «Lost Boys of Sudan» who traveled thousands of miles alone as a child to a large refugee camp in Kenya.

And then there is world around us: the hungry bellies, the dirty water, the vicious war, the waiting and lonely children silent behind chain link fences in refugee camps, the women caught in sex trafficking, our culture's exploitation and violence masquerading as entertainment, and Lord have mercy.

The church also raised concerns that «jihadists have entered European countries under the guise of being refugees and migrants, when their real intention has been to wage war on the West on behalf of their religion» as another reason for opposing the mosque being built.

During the Holocaust, as Nichols notes, religious efforts to help refugees became a «political orphan» of World War II.

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

There is only one moment, recounting the horrors that shaped his childhood and life as a refugee from the Bosnian war, when it all seems like it might -LRB-...)

When one race of citizens feels as though their lives don't matter; when refugees successfully escape the horrors of war only to be further brutalized on foreign soil; when the already - traumatized victims of conflict are violated by international peacekeepers who were sent to ensure their safety and wellbeing, then we as leaders, we as a world community must stop being silent and start taking action.

This cold act as a crucial lifeline to the thosands ofunaccompanied refugee children who have made treacheros jorneys from war torn cotries either alone from the start or who have lost parents and guardians en rote.

It is well known that «geopolitical shocks» such as the war in Syria lead to human displacement and mobility, and that the current refugee regime fails to protect those fleeing generalized violence (Van Hear and Ruhs 2012).

Its fiscal position has deteriorated since the beginning of the Arab Spring; hosting 500,000 refugees has already cost Jordan over $ 800 million since the Syrian war began, and unrest across the Arab world, particularly in neighboring Syria, has cost Jordan's economy as much as $ 4 billion.

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

2015 is just a week old, but we have already seen two worrying trends for Syrians fleeing the violence of war: first, an increase in restrictions imposed on those seeking to settle in neighbouring countries such as Lebanon; and secondly, even more refugees boarding boats and taking risky journeys in the Mediterranean.

Then during World War II, Fort Ontario became a refugee camp for European Jews and in 1953, it opened as a state historic site.

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.

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

Just as films about misunderstood benevolent aliens in the 1950s (The Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came from Outer Space) were calling for an end to the Cold War us - and - them mentality, District 9 is likewise making a strong statement about the damage that can be done when refugees are treated with suspicion before being given any compassion.

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

Clunky though not uninteresting in its assembly, and admirably direct in its anger and passion, the film features interviews with migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Guinea and elsewhere, as well as direct - to - camera narration from Redgrave, who speaks of everything from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to her own refugee status as a child forced to flee London during World War II.

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

An American Story details the trials and perseverance of the Dinh Family's immigration to the United States as refugees from war -...

As a refugee from the Vietnam War and English as a Second Language Learner, she is committed to advance the understanding of the complex history and culture of Vietnam as well as intergenerational memory and languagAs a refugee from the Vietnam War and English as a Second Language Learner, she is committed to advance the understanding of the complex history and culture of Vietnam as well as intergenerational memory and languagas a Second Language Learner, she is committed to advance the understanding of the complex history and culture of Vietnam as well as intergenerational memory and languagas well as intergenerational memory and languagas intergenerational memory and language.

Learn from Rawnsley and Archer as they outlines how, since it opened in 2005, the school has been committed to providing a safe, caring, and comprehensive learning environment for its 1,250 students — many of whom are refugees from war - torn countries.

She soon discovered that many of the inhabitants of the sanctuary - ape and human alike - are refugees from unspeakable violence, yet bonobos live in a peaceful society in which females are in charge, war is nonexistent, and sex is as common and friendly as a handshake.

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.

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.

Recounting memories of his family's flight from Warsaw and his years as a refugee during World War II, Shulevitz employs watercolor and ink to depict a boy liberated from his dreary existence through flights of fancy inspired by the map his father buys in the village market.

Her parents were born during the First Indochina War, from 1946 — 54, and in learning and recording their experiences — her father's were especially full of unfathomable sorrows — and the complex political situations that led her family to become refugees, Bui makes sense of what she couldn't as a child.

And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the «last war,» a new kind of refugee - an evacuee from London - appears in Maisie's life.

In beautiful, free verse poems, a 10 - year - old girl named Hà tells of her journey as a refugee from her war - torn hometown of Saigon Vietnam, to her new home in Alabama.

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.

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.

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 EuropAs 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 Europas a way to reach Europe.

Six artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home of a theater frequented by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, conducted by a woman of color.

She left Vietnam during the final year of the war in 1975 before finding a home as a political refugee in the U.S. Lê received an MFA from Yale University in 1993, and between 1994 and 1998 she made several trips back to Vietnam to discover and photograph her native country in peacetime.

Hồng - Ân Trương uses photography, video, sound, and performance to examine histories of war as well as immigrant, refugee, and decolonial narratives.

Her work stems from interviews with veterans and their relatives, as well as from interviews with current refugees, spanning from World War I to the Syrian conflict.

A film by Douglas Gordon, about the journey undertaken by a young Jonas Mekas as a refugee during World War II, was not screening in the open - air cinema the nights I visited, and I didn't make it to the communal dinners presented by Rasheed Araeen in Kotzia Square.

It was Mekas's first trip to Basel, the city and the fair, and he made the trek because his dealer, James Fuentes, had dedicated his booth to pictures of Mekas during his time as a refugee after the end of World War II, having been captured by the Nazis after fleeing from his native Lithuania.