Sentences with phrase «displaced people fleeing»

In a joint statement, the Foreign and Interior Ministers said: «We are providing aid to displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic State and who have sought refuge in Kurdistan.

Ukraine has absorbed 1.5 million displaced persons fleeing Crimea or the war - zones of the Donbas — the rough equivalent of the United States being suddenly confronted with about 12.4 million internal refugees.

Not exact matches

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

Many people like Ali fled Mosul with relatively little and often lack the basic necessities of life and employment opportunities for displaced people are extremely limited.

According to Christian charity, Tearfund, it is estimated that since the beginning of the Mosul offensive, 920,000 civilians have fled their homes and close to 700,000 people are still displaced, with nearly half living in nineteen emergency camps.

Additionally, nearly 56,000 people were displaced, forced to flee into the forests, as mobs burned down more than 5,600 houses, 300 churches, and other Christian institutions.

70 % of the roughly 40 million refugges or displaced people are muslims fleeing some sort of conflict in their part of the world.

«What the British people expect for the Prime Minister to be looking at what is the country's overall response to these huge numbers of people that we are seeing displaced and fleeing conflict, and that's what he's been focused on over the weekend.»

Amani and her twin daughters Masa and Malaz at a camp for displaced persons in northern Syria after fleeing Douma, a town near Damascus, where they say they suffered a chlorine attack.

Internally displaced people (IDP) have had to flee their homes due to insurgency, violence and environmental risks; schools have been burned down in some communities and have stopped operating.

Violent explosions interrupt Douglas Gordon's moving film I Had Nowhere to Go, which consists mostly of a black screen and the filmmaker Jonas Mekas reading parts of his memoir about being in Nazi and displaced - persons camps in the 1940s after fleeing his native Lithuania.

Hatoum's one - off performances often involved radical bodily actions and have a strong relationship to her experiences as a displaced person, forced to flee Lebanon with her parents during the 1970s.

The UN refugee organisation UNHCR tells us that 6.5 million people are internally displaced and that there are over 5 million people who have fled Syria to other countries.