Sentences with phrase «fleeing violence»

The national foundation is dedicated to supporting shelters for women and children fleeing violence across Canada, and originally committed to donate $ 1 million over the three years since its inception in 1998 — a target that has already been far exceeded.

Formed in 1998, the foundation had pledged to donate $ 1 million to support shelters in our local communities for women and children fleeing violence.

Nova House provides safe shelter, information, emotional support, assistance, education and advocacy for women and children fleeing violence at home.

«Realtors are proud to be a part of making sure that women and children fleeing violence and abuse in Elgin County have a safe place to go,» said Arnott, «somewhere with enough room to take them in and care for them and help them get back on their feet.»

The funds were directed to the Powell River Transition House, an organization that provides safety to women and their children fleeing violence as well as counselling, helpline support and community referrals.

The equity gap can and will be tremendous for refugee students if they aren't given the proper space to process, share, and heal from the chronic stress of fleeing violence and persecution.

This is inadequate to meet the needs of women fleeing violence for their safety.

We will introduce our new 90 - page plain language legal handbook for older women fleeing violence, called Roads to Safety, and offer an overview of some of the legal topics it covers:

We were looking to today's budget to address the significant gaps in the justice system, but the minimal dollars announced don't meet the needs of those dealing with relationship breakdown or fleeing violence.

This project has two aims: to train seniors - serving professionals on the specific needs of older women fleeing violence, and to inform older women of their rights in situations of abuse through a plain - language handbook containing practical legal information, called Roads to Safety, and a multilingual wallet - sized resource.

Fleeing violence and the destruction of their lives around them, these men reach safety only to be trapped in a state of impermanence.

Barrada's photographic work, featuring her home town Tangier, maps out the border crossings - a symbol of hope for many families fleeing the violence of war.

The forests provided much - needed refuge for civilians fleeing the violence, as well as being used as a key frontier by the conflicting armies.

But there is hope: the Pets and Women's Safety Act, or PAWS Act, would supply funding to help shelters take in people and pets fleeing violence.

On 2/12/16 LRR made a donation of a Home Depot gift card to Doorways Safehaven Kennel that offers safe shelter for women and their animals fleeing violence.

On 1/17/15 LRR made a donation to Doorways Safehaven Kennel that offers safe shelter for women and their animals fleeing violence.

Passionate around issues of opportunity and equality for women and girls, she has worked on these issues for private companies and the World Bank, and served on various non-profit Boards, including, currently on the Board and Executive Committee of the Tahirih Justice Center, a national leader protecting immigrant women and girls fleeing violence.

Kakuma, a large camp in northwestern Kenya, received more than 20,000 refugees fleeing violence in South Sudan, Somalia, and other countries in 2012 alone.

• «Human Flow,» Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's globetrotting look at refugees fleeing violence and poverty on several continents, is a documentary that's heartbreaking, immediate and beautiful.

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.

In the 1980s, «we had no idea how to provide treatment» for people fleeing violence, he says.

Deputy Editor Leslie Roberts reports on a health crisis in Nigeria where hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram.

Thousands of families and unaccompanied children have been coming to the U.S. in recent months, fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security terminated a program that allowed minors fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to settle in the United States, ending travel hopes for more than 2,700 children awaiting approval.

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.

Many families have settled there in recent years after fleeing violence in African nations like Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawn by family ties and the work of a nonprofit group that has resettled families there for decades, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees.

2015 is just a week old, but we have already seen two worrying trends for Syrians fleeing the violence of war: first, an increase in restrictions imposed on those seeking to settle in neighbouring countries such as Lebanon; and secondly, even more refugees boarding boats and taking risky journeys in the Mediterranean.

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.

Families fleeing the violence in Libya will not be able to find refuge in Britain, the Home Office has said.

«They're fleeing violence and they're children.»

The federal government is dropping plans to house children fleeing violence in Central America and coming to the United States in temporary shelters, including one considered in Syracuse.

The New York Observer reported that Mark - Viverito called for the undocumented children to be welcomed here because they are fleeing violence in their home countries.

He put out a poster featuring dark - skinned people fleeing violence and war emblazoned with the phrase: «Breaking point.»

In his address, the President said that Malawi will do its part and that it is doing its part, by offering refuge to people fleeing violence elsewhere as well as send peacekeepers to places where there is need, and noted that it actively pursues the AU Agenda 2063 to «Silence the Guns» by 2020.

Advocates have argued that the president's order is Islamophobic and will alienate moderate Muslims, while exposing innocent people fleeing violence and despotism to undue danger.

Brooklyn Downtown Star article on BP Adams launching a baby carrier collection drive for refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East.

Analysts suggest the prevalence of Syrian, Libyan, Eritrean, Somalian and Afghan asylum seekers shows most people coming to the UK are fleeing violence and civil war.

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 president of the Christian aid organization World Relief is speaking out a new executive order that President Trump is expected to sign soon, effectively banning refugees fleeing violence from coming to America.

On Wednesday, a young Syrian family fleeing violence in their native country was forced to change their resettlement plans when the governor of Indiana declared they would not be welcome in his state because of their nationality.

The president of the Christian aid organization World Relief is speaking out a new executive order that President Trump is expected to sign soon, effectively banning refugees fleeing violence from...

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.

They point to her 2 - 1 margin with Latinos over Obama in the 2008 primary and the latest party platform, which calls for a path to citizenship «for law - abiding families who are here,» the end of immigration raids against children and families, due process for «those fleeing violence in Central America,» and to rescind statutory bans on immigrants who modify their status in the country.

Fleeing violence, nearly 1.3 million Syrians and Iraqis are now living in Jordan.

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.

This refugee crisis calls for a cosmopolitan perspective, one that asks us to give priority to those fleeing violence over the communitarian needs of individual states.

The U.S. refugee resettlement system continues to be a lifeline to desperate individuals fleeing violence and conflict from all over the world.

The Iraq - based organization is focusing their work on helping families fleeing violence in Aleppo.

The group that organized a monthlong caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States wanted to draw attention to the plight of people fleeing violence.

Founded in 2013, the AfD rose to prominence on the back of an anti-immigration stance and its opposition to Merkel's decision to open the country's borders to over a million migrants, mainly those fleeing violence and persecution from the Middle East.