Sentences with phrase «by refugees fleeing»

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

Wading into the national debate about potential security risks posed by refugees fleeing violence in Syria, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton today said he is more concerned with people on terrorist watch lists being able to purchase firearms.

Wading into the national debate about potential security risks posed by refugees fleeing violence in Syria, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said he is more concerned with people on terrorist watch lists being able to purchase firearms.

Not exact matches

I am disturbed... by calls from both federal and state officials for an end to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, These refugees are fleeing terror — violence like we have witnessed in Paris.

Persecuted Christians on Indonesia's Ambon island face desperate conditions and the world is largely ignoring their plight, said two Americans who recently returned from a visit to the island.As many as 500,000 Christians have been driven from their homes and more than 2,500 have been killed by Muslim «jihad» warriors who have publicly declared they will push all Christians off the island or kill them.Christians are fleeing into the mountains, flooding into refugee camps and clogging ports to wait for the few ships ferrying refugees off the island.

The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

Speaking to Iraqi refugees in Lebanon during an Aid to the Church in Need project trip this March, I was told how they had fled Mosul in 2013 because of continuing persecution by extremist Islamists.

After fleeing violence at the age of just 10, Rose Nathike Lokonyen — who is now 23 — spent years in a large refugee camp where she trained by running barefoot.

A steady stream of refugees fleeing the violence in Lybia are attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea, often traveling in unstable boats operated by human traffickers...

The Ghassanids arrived in the region as refugees from further south in Arabia, possibly as Christians fleeing persecution by Jewish tribes.

This story by the way exactly fits the pattern I described in earlier posts of religious traditions persecuted in one region being able to flee for safety across a convenient border, of «refugee faith.»

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.

For example, refugees fleeing wars of independence faced a perilous and tough experience, but in some cases were welcomed by independent governments in solidarity with states in which the anti-colonial war had not yet been won.

World Jewish Relief and a number of businesses are keen to develop programmes to help refugees into work, many inspired by the plight of Syrians fleeing to Britain.

«Europe didn't cause the Syrian refugee crisis and pulling out of the EU won't stop people fleeing conflict and persecution by ISIS and the Assad regime,» she said in a statement released by pro-EU group Britain Stronger in Europe.

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

Some have argued that the British public are opposed to a larger effort to help, and that in any event such efforts are futile as we can not hope to support all those displaced by this conflict, nor can support for refugees resolve the crisis that has led them to flee in the first place.

Among those who will meet with and be blessed by the Pope during his visit on Sept. 25th are day laborers from Westchester, immigrant mothers from Yonkers and East Harlem, unaccompanied youth fleeing persecution in Central America, and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

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.

To help refugees settle, doctors in Europe will need to treat both the mental and physical problems commonly experienced by people fleeing war zones

Others take advantage of human misery by ferrying climate refugees across the Mediterranean in leaky boats, or by building fences to keep people from fleeing Bangladesh for India.

She led Europe through a potential currency crisis and threw open Germany's doors to a wave of refugees fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq, leading by example in a time where many European leaders were hesitant to open their borders to outsiders.

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps» War (Unrated) Ken Burns co-directed this documentary recounting the heroic mission mounted in 1939 by American minister Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha to rescue scores of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation of Europe.

Fire at Sea / Fuocoammare Directed by Gianfranco Rosi Italy / France, 2016, 108m English and Italian with English subtitles Winner of the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival, Gianfranco Rosi's documentary observes Europe's migrant crisis from the vantage point of a Mediterranean island where hundreds of thousands of refugees, fleeing war and poverty, have landed in recent decades.

Hela's cowardly executioner found his courage and helped to defend the fleeing Asgardian refugees — only to get stabbed by his former boss.

After fleeing Vietnam by boat in 1978 and enduring time in a Taiwanese refugee camp, Tai and his family emigrated to the United States.

In South Africa, there are constant assassinations, attempted assassinations, intimidations and threats carried out by Rwandan espionage through the Rwandan embassy, based in Pretoria.6 These issues have become a source of imprisonment in fear, predicament, and deprivation, especially for Rwandan refugees who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, to whom cessation clause currently applies.

In 1997, Gabon authorities arrested and handcuffed all Rwandan refugees and took them to Kigali.18 In Rwanda, all victims of the forced massive repatriation were welcomed by different atrocities resulting in those who survived fleeing the country all over again.

’27 For that reason, the RPF government has been arguing that those who fled Rwanda between 1994 and 1998, regardless of their well - founded and reasonable fear to repatriate, «have a dark, ugly past to hide and are running away from prosecution» but not persecution.28 Whereas it can not be denied that some genocide perpetrators remain at large, it can strongly be argued that a list of Hutu refugees who were suspected of having committed genocide crimes was established and thus handed out by the RPF government to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

The refugees who founded San Pedro were among those who fled the Province of Bacalar sometime before the city fell to an army of Maya insurgents, the Santa Cruz Maya, led by Generalissimo Venancio Puc.

This is the dilemma faced by tens of thousands of refugees in Japan who fled their homes when an earthquake and tsunami damaged Fukushima's nuclear power plant, causing three major meltdowns — the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

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.

Stanczak ultimately fled to a Polish refugee camp in Uganda in the late 1940's where he started to make artwork inspired by the stunning light and atmosphere of Africa: a type of hypnotic chromatism that would later influence works like Referential Circle (1968), which seems to hum internally with a hazy glow.

20 March, 2018 — Climate refugees, people fleeing climate change's impacts by moving to new homes, may number over 140 million by 2050, the World Bank reports.

The Court must one day engage with the real life experiences of gay and lesbian refugees who, day by day, chilled in the climate of fear arising out of criminalisation per se, are then forced to flee and seek sanctuary in Europe.

This has added significance considering that many refugees arrive in Canada traumatized by the violent and oppressive treatment they have suffered in the countries from and through which they flee.

The exclusion of those who have committed serious crimes may support a number of subsidiary rationales: prevent people fleeing from justice; prevent dangerous and particularly undeserving people from entering the host country; preserve the integrity and legitimacy of the refugee protection system, and, hence, the necessary public support for its viability; deter states from exporting criminals by pardoning them or imposing disproportionately lenient sentences while supporting their departure elsewhere as refugees; allow states to reduce the danger to their society from all serious criminality cases taken together, given the difficult task and potential for error when attempting to determine whether criminals from abroad (on whom they have more limited sources of information than on domestic criminals) are no longer dangerous.

It was barbaric not to accept more refugees who were fleeing the civil war in Syria and who might have been murdered by ISIL.