Sentences with phrase «many child refugees»

Dame Stephanie Shirley (84) arrived in Britain in 1939 as an unaccompanied child refugee from Nazi Europe.

The head of UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, Anthony Lake told CBS News, «This one millionth child refugee is not just another number.

How can one «criticize» the experience of the victim of domestic abuse or incest, the child refugee who has seen his family slaughtered by the national police, or the mother who must watch her children starve?

I've been especially encouraged by the words and actions of Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the SBC, who took a trip to the border last week and who wrote a really powerful challenge to Christians regarding their response to the child refugees.

Morgan's intervention comes after ministers announced last week announced the Dubs scheme would end after taking 350 only child refugees.

«Given his distinguished service in the All - Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, his tireless work on behalf of those with disabilities, and his heroic support of Syrian child refugees, I can think of no better recipient of this prize in 2016 than Lord Dubs,» said Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive.

But that's exactly what the Home Office has been trying to do to unaccompanied child refugees and the consequences have been calamitous.

The major policy announcement was to end the practice of deporting child refugees once they turn 18, and allowing the parents of children with the right to stay to join them.

The very authorities who are tasked with protecting child refugees here in Britain have instead been jeopardising their safety.

Week after week he campaigned for the UK to take in child refugees from Calais.

As Number 10 refuses to say how many child refugees Britain will accept, the Prime Minister's spokesman insists his offer is genuine.

It's our moral duty to keep child refugees safe.

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking amendment to help child refugees

This brutal reality is often the fate of child refugees.

The new commitment to ending family break - up in the immigration system will be explained, Abbott saying: «We will allow the carers or parents of admitted child refugees to come here.

«It is not insulting other European countries to offer to help; they want us to help... Stop with his attitude with lone child refugees, putting this House and country to shame.»

Last night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to block plans to help 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees in Europe.

Child refugees here on their own would be allowed to sponsor their parents to come and join them in the UK.

They should not be returning unaccompanied child refugees (2,018 of them between 2007 and 2015) to a place they have never lived and have no family connection to.

Protection of child refugees to be debated by Labour conference on Wednesday in hope of speeding arrival of lone children from Calais in UK

Yesterday Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, held a news conference where he supported the efforts by Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Bishop Robert Cunningham of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse to provide accommodations for child refugees from violence in Central America.

Robert Goodwill, the immigration minister, told MPs in a written ministerial statement on Wednesday that one further group of 150 lone child refugees are to be brought to Britain but they will be the last to be transferred under the scheme.

A full turn - out of Labour MPs would have prevented the government from blocking efforts at helping child refugees, according to an early analysis of last night's Commons vote.

The home secretary has rejected comparisons with Donald Trump after it emerged that the government is to end its commitment to provide a safe haven for thousands of vulnerable lone child refugees in Europe.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio holds up a photo of a the body of a dead child refugee being recovered from a beach (Photo: Andrew Burton for Getty Images)

Only this week the Tories voted against supporting 3,000 unaccompanied vulnerable child refugees, while UKIP want to pull up the drawbridge.

This follows a vote on Monday when all Welsh Conservative MPs present voted against supporting 3,000 child refugees.

The last few weeks have seen a revolt on academies, Cameron shamed on child refugees, faltering economic growth, the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, the junior doctors» strike and the party split on Europe.

Last week, press reports appeared to confirm those doubts: «Hundreds posing as child refugees shown to be adults,» ran one headline.

UNC medical student Yousef Abu - Salha fulfilled a dream of caring for child refugees from Syria, while honoring the legacy of his slain sisters Yusor and Razan and his best friend Deah, who are remembered throughout the United States and the world as the three young Muslim Americans who were senselessly murdered in Chapel Hill in February 2015.

It's the «largest resettlement effort» in the world: The United Kingdom said Wednesday it will take in 3,000 child refugees from the Middle East and North Africa.

Child refugees The government repeatedly refused to receive 3,000 child refugees from Europe but it capitulated and agreed to take some after the House of Lords and MPs within its own party asked it to think again for a second time.

Drawing on his own experience as a child refugee from Cuba, Flores - Galbis offers a gripping historical novel about children who were evacuated from Cuba to the U.S. during Operation Pedro Pan in 1961.

Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee.

Storyteller and human rights advocate Clemantine Wamariya talks about her life as a child refugee, and her biography The Girl Who Smiled Beads.

This story of child refugees tutors us in why we must save them and the strength they bring us.

Founded in 1989 (and initially called the Women's Commission), the Women's Refugee Commission's mission is to improve the lives of women and children refugees around the world.

Part urban survival adventure, part anguished family drama, this powerful novel brings the news headlines very close through the eyes of one child refugee, Sade Solaja, 12, who must flee her comfortable home in Lagos, Nigeria, and care for her younger brother in the cold London streets.

Adult and child refugees are relocated all over the world, and in the U.S., there are 350 resettlement agencies across the country.

Bruguera tried to rephrase the question, asking Ai to consider what it means for an artist to use his own body as a stand - in for the body of a child refugee.

They also created a text campaign and interviewed child refugees and even enlisted the help of the musical group a Crowded House and popular actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

Yoshua Okón: Oracle is a three - channel video installation that explores the social and political contradictions of the ongoing Central American children refugee crisis, immigration and the inadequacies of borders and nationalism.

More specifically, unaccompanied children refugees enjoy an additional protection pursuant to Article 10 (3)(a): their right to family reunification — by way of exemption of the regime applicable to «adults» refugees — is not left to the discretion of the Member States and submitted to the conditions set out in Article 4 (2)(a).

London has only taken in four child refugees, whereas councils in the East of England have taken in 148 children.

Patient 28: In November, 2012 a child refugee claimant with a cleft lip and palate that had become infected was denied care by a doctor despite the fact that he had valid IFH coverage.

A child refugee claimant with a heart condition awaiting his hearing develops a dental abscess.

Examples of recent cases include the litigation in respect of the child refugees dispersed from the camp in Calais, Osborn in the Supreme Court on the requirements for Parole Board hearings, Sturnham in the Court of Appeal on damages for Article 5 breaches, the series of joined cases concerning reception conditions in Cyprus for asylum seekers, challenges to local authority taxi licensing policy, and challenges to the prison «book ban».

David Manknell and Amelia Walker successful in their defence of the Dubs child refugee scheme - Nov 2017

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Many U.S. governors have set forth executive orders refusing any Syrian refugees, even children under 5 years old.