Sentences with phrase «children fleeing war»

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

Yes to a decent refugee policy that provides a home for desperate men, women and children fleeing war: immigrants and refugees helped to build this country, and will continue to do so.

The Supreme Court of Canada struck a compassionate note today as it set aside a decision by the former Ministry of Immigration to reject the post-refugee application on humanitarian grounds of a child fleeing war.

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The company also made an unpopular decision in 2016 to block a Norwegian newspaper editor from posting an iconic Vietnam War photo of a terrified, naked child fleeing her village after a vicious napalm attack.

In the single month of January 2016, at least 244 people — many of them children — died while trying to make it to Europe, fleeing violence, persecution and war in countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

PJ Cole spent his childhood fleeing danger and sharing his parents with hundreds of former child soldiers caught up in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war.

And I'm sure that the last thing on any child's mind that is fleeing from war and droughts is having a game of footy!

You can also talk to your child about refugees who are fleeing war in another country and donate to causes that support them.

A father whose children have drowned while fleeing a war torn country is told he shouldn't have put them at risk by making the crossing.

The government seems to be constantly on the look out for ways to return people fleeing war and persecution and in fact has operated a de-facto child return system for years.

We also see him fall in love with a slave named Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), and father a child with her, and then allow his white wife Serena (Keri Russell), who took Knight's first born son and fled to Georgia during the war, to return home to live with them.

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.

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

Several months ago, Prosper and Alice Gahungu and their three children fled their homeland, where thousands of people have been massacred in a civil war between the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis.

The war in Syria has meant millions of people have fled the country, and hundreds of thousands of children now don't have a school to go to.

Either way, Jimmie Limber stayed with Varina and her children as they fled from Richmond at the end of the war until they were captured by Federal troops in south Georgia.

The Lebanese - born director has a compelling biography both behind and ahead of him, having fled the Lebanese Civil War as a child and winning film awards alongside his brother, Fares Fares.

The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini, who escaped war - torn Syria, José Maria João, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Saveri, an Indian transgender activist; Luis Nava, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, a young atheist from Somalia.

By 1937, when Armenian - American artist Arshile Gorky painted Mother and Child, many artists were fleeing Europe ahead of World War II and landing in New York.

The medal caps an equally far - reaching journey by Kahn, who was born in 1927 in Germany, only to flee his homeland on a «Kindertransport» train that saved Jewish children before the start of World War II.

During the war, her children fled to a refugee camp in Guinea.

The company also made an unpopular decision in 2016 to block a Norwegian newspaper editor from posting an iconic Vietnam War photo of a terrified, naked child fleeing her village after a vicious napalm attack.