Sentences with phrase «global refugee crisis»

This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home.

More than 11 million people have been displaced since the start of the war in Syria, contributing to the largest global refugee crisis since World War II.

The artist talk will be followed by a series of short films on the war in Syria and the ongoing global refugee crisis, copresented with Welcoming Atlanta in honor of World Refugee Day.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist working to ease the global refugee crisis, said Thursday that he's found a new way to help migrants: blockchain technology.

The fact that Guterres ran a major UN agency during a global refugee crisis would help him to focus on ways to better integrate the various UN operations and to partner with other institutions.

The global refugee crisis reveals not only the dangerous plight of millions of men and women, boys and girls, but also the troubling moral plight of America.

While resettlement will not solve the global refugee crisis, for the small numbers who are resettled, it can mean an opportunity to rebuild their lives anew in freedom and safety.

«The unfortunate truth is that given the unprecedented nature of the global refugee crisis, there are simply more people than ever that need our support and our compassion,» said Tim Breene, CEO of World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals and one of nine agencies partnering with the government to resettle refugees.

Recently, we announced the GC2 Summit, a gathering for Evangelicals to consider an appropriate response to the growing, global refugee crisis.

In recent years, Stearns has called the Church to engage in the global refugee crisis and to follow Jesus into the most difficult places in the world to alleviate human suffering and care for the world's most vulnerable children.

The Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College (BGCE) and the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College (HDI) have announced a summit, in partnership with LifeWay Research, to help Christians respond to the global refugee crisis.

Football Welcomes is part of Amnesty International's I Welcome campaign for a better international response to the global refugee crisis.

Refugees The global refugee crisis is something May must be prepared to discuss in Washington.

«This decision to have the cap furthers the global refugee crisis.»

The global refugee crisis and there are 65 million refugees across the world that crisis is a challenge, much of which is on the borders of Europe and that challenge can be met by co-ordinating with our European neighbours, both to crack down on the people smugglers who put men, women and children to sea in unseaworthy vessels.

NASUWT has highlighted the appalling impact of the global refugee crisis on the world's children and young people

President Obama used his final address to the U.N. General Assembly yesterday to warn that climate change would worsen the kind of unrest and inequality that has spurred a global refugee crisis.

Other highlights of this year's Spotlight on Documentary section include Vanessa Redgrave's directorial debut, Sea Sorrow, an expertly crafted call for Western aid to the global refugee crisis; Barbet Schroeder's The Venerable W., which confronts an Islamophobic Burmese Buddhist monk; and Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned, a critical investigation into the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in Ireland.

«Human Flow» is director and artist Ai Weiwei's detailed and heartbreaking documentary exploration into the global refugee crisis.

Written by Chin - Chin Yap, Tim Finch, and Boris Cheshirkov and directed by Ai Weiwei, Human Flow gives a view, expansive yet painfully intimate, of the suffering that comes with the global refugee crisis.

Now the story of Benjamin and his descendants resonates especially with the global refugee crisis, and makes his forewarnings more timely than ever.

INSECURITIES: TRACING DISPLACEMENT AND SHELTER The global refugee crisis has created challenges for architects and designers who must determine how to house this growing population.

Artist, activist and director Ai Weiwei captures the global refugee crisis in this epic film journey.

The work of Ai Weiwei will be on view in our gallery, and his visit will include a conversation and screening of Human Flow, his documentary on the global refugee crisis.

This week, Ai Weiwei will present his new film HUMAN FLOW at the Hammer and participate in a post-screening Q & A. Shot in twenty - three countries over the course of a year, Weiwei's documentary is an «exploration of the global refugee crisis...,» bearing «[witness to] its subjects» desperate search for safety, shelter, and justice.»

To celebrate World Humanitarian Day, Ai Weiwei debuts the first trailer from his forthcoming documentary on the global refugee crisis

The auction, which will commence at 12.00 pm ET / 5 pm GMT Thursday 7 December, will be open for two weeks on the online auction platform Paddle8 (ending on Thursday 21 December) and is being held in conjunction with the UK release of HUMAN FLOW, Weiwei's feature documentary about the global refugee crisis.

The project is the culmination of a body of work on the global refugee crisis.

At once tender, profound and critical, the poetic gesture of this ad hoc ritual now speaks broadly to the global refugee crisis and the countless people who perished while fleeing their homes.

The artist's new, very personal project for Public Art Fund confronts New York's five boroughs with the global refugee crisis.

Evoking the global refugee crisis, the work evolves out of interviews with six individuals who have fled their countries.

Anish Kapoor has donated the $ 1 million he was awarded by the Genesis Prize Foundation to five organizations focused on mitigating the global refugee crisis.

Anish Kapoor has announced that he will donate his $ 1m Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF) award to five prominent NGOs engaged in alleviating the global refugee crisis.

A NEW EXHIBIT ABOUT THE GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS Exhibit Dates: January 19, 2018 — February 25, 2018 Opening Reception: January 21, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Closing Reception: Sunday, February 25, 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm Photographer Dorte Verner Presents Photographs Featuring Refugees from Around the World January 19 through February 25, 2018 at Photoworks Gallery in Glen Echo -LSB-...]

Last year saw the occasional misstep — a self - portrait in the pose of a drowned Syrian infant refugee, reenacting a viral news image, raised a bit of ire — but that was followed by four concurrent gallery shows across New York City, all adeptly addressing the sheer scale of the global refugee crisis.

He has fervently dedicated himself to raising awareness of the global refugee crisis.

Student groups placed signs displaying refugee statistics along the walkways of the Arts Quad to foster discussion about the global refugee crisis, including the plight of climate change refugees.

He says the rise in focus on the global refugee crisis shows a willingness of law firms to use their significant resources and expertise to «help tackle one of the greatest challenges we are facing, potentially, in this generation.»

«However, human rights tragedies — in Syria, the Congo and South Sudan and a global refugee crisis — continue to unfold today.