According to the International Rescue Committee and the UNHCR, of the millions of
displaced people around the world, half are children.
Hacking Better Shelter is series of IKEA - style hacks designed to expand the use of Better Shelter, a leading emergency shelter system housing
displaced people around the world.
An all - girls science club from San Fernando Senior High School near Los Angeles has designed a solar - powered tent meant to help homeless and
displaced people around the world.
They are a team of 10 refugees — just a small representation of the millions of
displaced people around the world.
The UN estimates there are around 34 million refugees and internally
displaced people around the world.
And then, of course, there are the forces that are physically
displacing people around the world and here in the US.
Ai has swiftly become the art world's conscience when it comes to the plight of
displaced peoples around the world.
Not exact matches
The devastation, which affected
around 7 million
people,
displaced 2.1 million and killed 363, according to official figures.
The murderer on - the - run preacher in The Apostle who founds a church where class and status make no difference, a congregation of
displaced misfits who are poor and poorer, dumb and dumber, black and white, male and female, and fatter and fatter still, is telling
people who need to hear (because they can't read) what they most need to know to turn their lives
around: They can be saved, despite it all, if they believe in Jesus and «Holy Ghost power.»
At the end of 2013 — even before the Iraq crisis forced an estimated 1.8 million Iraqis from their homes —
around 51.2 million
people worldwide had been forcibly
displaced due to «persecution, conflict, generalised violence or human rights violations», according to the UN News Centre.
Yobel Market sells all sorts of fairly - traded, sustainably - created wares from
around the world to help empower
people who have been exploited,
displaced and impoverished.
The century ended with about 21 million refugees
around the globe, including about 6 million internally
displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.
The Governor also directed officials to comb the camp throughout the night of Thursday to search within and
around the camp to ensure no
displaced person has any object that can cause injury.
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.
Some
people also have better [so - called] «locomotive genius» — this is when swimmers have that sense of moving the water
around them and how much water they are
displacing.
Current conflicts raging
around the world have created the highest numbers of
displaced people ever tallied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the agency that tracks and advocates for
displaced populations.
Around the world, the estimated number of refugees and
people displaced within their home countries has risen from 10 million in 1980 to 50 million today.
The competition was won by an all - girl team from Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire who took home the first prize for their app,
Displaced, designed to help charities to coordinate the logistics of supporting vulnerable
people around the world.
NaTakallam connects
displaced people — primarily Syrian refugees — with students
around the world, to provide affordable, flexible and tailored language practice, inte...
Portals exist
around the world in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Honduras, Mexico, an Internally
Displaced Persons camp in Iraq, a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, and more.
Around the world
people are
displaced, driven from their homelands.
With mobile phones as the default mode of communication for many
around the world, including refugees and
displaced persons, the ability to charge those devices is almost as important as having access to a clean light source, so LuminAID has a goal of sending 500 of these lights to Syrian refugees.
5:30 p.m. Postscript While in Manila, Harish Hande and I escaped from the energy summit briefly and were driven to Calauan, a 5,000 - family resettlement «village» at the base of a forested mountain, built for
people displaced by disasters in and
around the megacity.
-- this huge drought, dust storms starting up in bigger volumes again, the Pakistan flood that
displaced 20 million
people, the Russian drought and fires that led to the highest spike in food prices ever recorded — that has an impact on poor
people around the world.
We walked through a camp for
displaced people, absorbing the human wreckage
around us.
At six feet, though,
around 12 million
people in the United States would be
displaced, and the world's most vulnerable megacities, like Shanghai, Mumbai, and Ho Chi Minh City, could be wiped off the map.
Consistent degradation of soils means that hundreds of millions of
people around the globe will likely become
displaced due to the lack of an ability to grow food in the coming decades.
A new model for prefabricated homes, Abōd ® Shelters, is making a difference in South Africa, and designers hope that this solution can be made available to
people around the world who suffer from poverty, homelessness, or are
displaced by natural disasters.
Twenty - six million
people around the globe have been
displaced by climate change since 2010; 20 million of those climate refugees are women.
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.
And we will be better off there than many of the countries of the world, and one of the most remarkable things, if you take the country you've just talked about — Bangladesh — Bangladesh will practically be unable to be lived in, if we do not halt the march of climate change, and we'll have 170 million
displaced people wandering
around the world, looking for somewhere to live.
However, for some islands
around the world, sea level rise is either already
displacing people or will be in not too long.
Lord Deben claimed that climate change will cause «much greater numbers of heatwaves one end and flooding at the other, and some parts of the country, like the east of England, with very little water andother parts with huge amounts of water», and that «Bangladesh will practically be unable to be lived in», which will in turn cause «170million
displaced people wandering
around the world».
Extreme weather events and disasters are undercutting food security for millions
around the world, especially among poor developing nations, the WRO wrote, adding that 23.5 million
people were
displaced in 2016 by weather - related disaster, creating a flood of climate refugees throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
Sensitive
people often absorb the pain of the world
around them, taking to heart the mean - spiritedness of others and the pain that some others
displace.
That the Australian Government actively engage Indigenous Australians in post Kyoto negotiations, particularly in relation to the utilisation of the Kyoto mechanisms, international investment in carbon abatement, and issues
around the urban migration of both internally
displaced peoples and those that will require relocation in the region.
Katrina
displaced more than a million
people, as some 275,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in and
around New Orleans.
It was demolished in 2015, decades after nearly all of the neighborhood had been bulldozed in the late 1960s in a failed urban renewal effort that reduced much of the area to parking lots and
displaced around 2,000
people.