Sentences with phrase «by refugee children»

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«The last two weeks have been about as grim and hopeless as any of us can remember,» Lamott wrote, listing events like the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster in Ukraine, Palestinian children killed by rocket fire while playing football on the beach and protests against young refugees showing up at the U.S. border.»

The film was captured by Syrian children in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp, and shows what life is like as a refugee through their eyes.

How can one «criticize» the experience of the victim of domestic abuse or incest, the child refugee who has seen his family slaughtered by the national police, or the mother who must watch her children starve?

I've been especially encouraged by the words and actions of Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC, who took a trip to the border last week and who wrote a really powerful challenge to Christians regarding their response to the child refugees.

Otter - Pass still has deep ties in the refugee community and have been inspired first hand by the dads and moms we know who gave up everything — their homes, their extended families, their entire lives — to save their children from war and persecution.

So, as governments oversee matters of security, we will care for the hurting, calling Christians to embrace refugees through their denomination, congregation or other non-profits by providing for immediate and long - term needs, such as housing, food, clothing, employment, English language classes, and schooling for children.

Protect unaccompanied minors by ensure that the UK plays its part in serving the needs of refugee children at risk in our country, Europe, and the wider world.

These women have endured more in their lives than I can even imagine: they left everything to flee ethnic cleansing from the junta in Burma, ended up in refugee camps marked by extreme poverty and hopelessness, and then moved their families to this new country so their children can have education and a future.

Then there was Smith's encounter with a bus full of refugees, lost children from war - ravaged countries and shattered families, forged into a soccer team and made to feel that they mattered by a Muslim woman on the outskirts of Atlanta.

In addition, Bayern players will be accompanied by a German child on one hand and a young refugee on the other when they take to the pitch for their next home game against Augsburg on September 12 «to set a sign for the integration of refugees.»

The House of Lords overwhelmingly supported this amendment, led by Lord Dubs, himself a refugee brought to the UK as a child during the kindertransport.

In the House of Lords, Lord Finkelstein, Lord Howard and others are the children of refugees given sanctuary by previous British governments.

Our next piece examines claims by Paddy Ashdown that Syrian children who are brought to the UK under Cameron's refugee programme will be deported when they turn 18.

NYCLU announced a settlement with Utica City schools ensuring refugee children receive the same educational opportunities as their peers, by guaranteeing them the right to attend public school past the age of 21.

The global refugee crisis and there are 65 million refugees across the world that crisis is a challenge, much of which is on the borders of Europe and that challenge can be met by co-ordinating with our European neighbours, both to crack down on the people smugglers who put men, women and children to sea in unseaworthy vessels.

These are parents and children who have been recognised as refugees by the British government.

Last night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to block plans to help 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees in Europe.

Loach stated: «Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.»

Here are the the main things we know about refugee children in Europe, as taken from a survey of 870 inhabitants of the Calais Jungle by Refugee Rights Data Project.

Protection of child refugees to be debated by Labour conference on Wednesday in hope of speeding arrival of lone children from Calais in UK

Yesterday Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, held a news conference where he supported the efforts by Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Bishop Robert Cunningham of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse to provide accommodations for child refugees from violence in Central America.

«On 23rd February 2016, troops of 21 Brigade in conjunction with troops of MNJTF on clearance operations at Kumshe general area, rescued 250 and persons, mainly women and children held hostages by Boko Haram terrorists and brought back 800 refugees from Cameroon.

Britain's decision to resettle some of the «most vulnerable» Syrian refugees has been welcomed by Save the Children, as it was «consistent with the UK Government's leadership».

The objective of Project Hope is to support Syrian refugee children in Turkey by providing them with digital game - based education opportunities to improve Turkish language proficiency, executive functions, and coding skills while decreasing their sense of despair and increasing hope.

The study of Syrian refugee children, presented by researchers on June 6 at BAU International University in Washington, DC, suggests that digital games can be a cost - efficient and scalable approach to meeting the educational and psychological needs of refugee children.

Digital games can effectively teach refugee children much - needed skills — including a new language, cognitive skills, and coding — while also improving their mental health, finds research by New York University, the City University of New York, and Turkey's Bahcesehir University.

The story in Children of Men revolves around one man, Theo Faron (Owen, Inside Man), who is kidnapped by a terrorist organization headed by his ex-wife Julian (Moore, Freedomland), who uses him to try to get travel permits in order to bring in a young African refugee, and that he must accompany her back.

Redgrave juxtaposes our horrifying present of inadequate refugee quotas and humanitarian disasters (like last year's clearing of the Calais migrant camp) with the refugee crises of WWII and its aftermath, recalled with archival footage, contemporary news reports and personal testimony — including an interview with the eloquent Labor politician Lord Dubs, who was one of the children rescued by the Kindertransport.

Produced by a group of well - known filmmakers, such as Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, this movie stars former child soldiers and lost boys, as well as the children of real - life Sudanese refugees.

The mishap that brought him there was related by association to the sad and angry Dr. Mouldy (Nicholas Farrell), whose wife has just left him; among his patients is one Bosnian refugee (Walentine Giorgiewa) bearing a war enemy's child.

To further consider JUPITER»S MOON, in which refugees are being chased and shot down by Hungarian police Holocaust - style, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, where hidden homelessness eats away the American dream for children born in impoverished households, and LOVELESS, a cautionary tale that sheds light on issues of abandonment and toxic selfishness seen in: no wonder everybody just wants to die in HAPPY END?

«We have a collective responsibility to ensure education plans take into account the needs of some the most vulnerable children and youth in the world — refugees, internally displaced children, stateless children and children whose right to education has been compromised by war and insecurity.

Launched by Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah — UAE and UNHCR Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children in June 2013, the Big Heart for Syrian Refugee Children campaign works to relieve the plight of Syrian refugees with specific focus on the needs of cChildren in June 2013, the Big Heart for Syrian Refugee Children campaign works to relieve the plight of Syrian refugees with specific focus on the needs of cChildren campaign works to relieve the plight of Syrian refugees with specific focus on the needs of childrenchildren.

We have the ability to change this narrative by welcoming refugees into our communities and by providing strong education for refugee children.»

New research into those educational journeys shows that relationships, at times aided by technology, are a key difference - maker for refugee children, helping them to persist in the face of overwhelming challenges.

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In these communities of some 7,000 people altogether, descendants of Dust Bowl refugees live near grandchildren of Japanese - American internment camp survivors, a taqueria is housed in the Punjabi - owned market, and children of farmers, farmworkers, doctors, and packing - house employees sit side by side in school.

Along with a voluntary association created by teachers and students of the An - Najah National University, where our colleague Ruth works as a volunteer teacher, she devotes her time to know the situation of refugee children and orphans.

In the new paper, published by the Migration Policy Institute, Dryden - Peterson looks at how pre-resettlement histories can affect refugee children's academic experiences later in their school lives.

Here is a comprehensive resource on the rights of immigrant and refugee children, assembled by Teaching Tolerance for educators and school staff.

Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed in a lawsuit on behalf of three undocumented immigrant youth that the federal agency is teaming up with police departments (including the 250 law enforcement agencies operated by traditional district schools) to pick up, detain, and ultimately, deport unaccompanied refugee children and other undocumented minors.

As a child, Mina came to Australia by boat, a Muslim refugee escaping turmoil in her native Afghanistan.

Children's literature that addresses real and fictional refugee experiences can expand readers» understanding of the people whose lives are uprooted by war.

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.

Using as a formalist departure point the measurement, «a home that is half of a four by six foot cubicle,» which served as a critique of the treatment of Vietnamese refugees who were given the minimal amount of space in the camps, Ngô combines architectural sculpture with traces of her siblings» experiences, which are at times poignant, humorous, and profound, but always expressing a full range of agency often denied to children and refugees alike.

This work has been donated by the artist to benefit the Friends of Kayany foundation, which supports schools for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon.

An auction conducted by Sotheby's will accompany the opening of the exhibition, the proceeds of which will fund Al Madad Foundation's affiliated education initiative Iqra» for disadvantaged Lebanese children, as well as Palestinian and Syrian refugee children in Lebanon.

The artist's large - scale sculptures reveal the trace of the human hand and suggest her early recollections of being surrounded by wooden walls, tools, and utensils as a child living in wartime labor and refugee camps in Germany after her family was forced to leave Poland.

Children in Kosovo refugee camps were also made terribly ill by lead contamination in water, thanks to a nearby industrial mine that the UN Interim Administration in Kosovo chose to ignore (and for which it is now being asked to pay compensation and apologize).

More specifically, unaccompanied children refugees enjoy an additional protection pursuant to Article 10 (3)(a): their right to family reunification — by way of exemption of the regime applicable to «adults» refugees — is not left to the discretion of the Member States and submitted to the conditions set out in Article 4 (2)(a).