Sentences with phrase «number of refugees»

The announcement, made only 24 hours before the rule came into effect, cited a high number of refugee claims from those countries as reason for the change.
Due to a global recession and the increased number of refugees and humanitarian assistance worldwide, the international community's financial and material support to lighten the burden has diminished.
The Danish government rightly points out that it has accepted a huge number of refugees per capita.
That's not entirely surprising, given the simple number of refugees moving through and to the regions highlighted.
There were a great number of refugees, many living in miserable conditions.
We made no attempt to examine this effect in women, given insufficient numbers of refugees (n = 27).
The United States resettles the largest number of refugees in the world but it still constitutes less than half of 1 % of the world's refugees.
«This executive order dramatically reduces the overall number of refugees allowed this year, robbing families of hope and a future.
Education International, representing 32.5 million educators from around the world, has worked with German hosts to sponsor visits to schools with large numbers of refugee children on the day before the Summit.
The conference held upon the invitation of Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, Wife of the Ruler of Sharjah and UNHCR Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children aimed to reckon the increasing number of refugee children in the region.
Since Aylan's death, the EU has been faced with the serious crisis of how to deal with the growing numbers of refugees from Syria and other countries.
Earlier this year Farage said he was willing to take a small number of refugees from Syria into the UK, but only if they were Christians.
By reducing the total number of refugees resettled to the US by more than half — from 110,000 to 50,000 — it will necessarily mean that fewer persecuted Christians will be admitted to the US this year than last year.
That was certainly the case last month when he decided to take Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews to task for her decision to step in and provide essential health care coverage for large numbers of refugee claimants who had been cut out of the federal government's longstanding refugee health care program.
Based on the arrivals so far, 2018 is on track to bring in the lowest number of refugees since the resettlement program was formalized in 1980.
Europe should accept a small number of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean in boats, but only if they're Christian, Nigel Farage insisted today.
Engineering such contact can face many hurdles, including language barriers and daunting challenges that arise in countries, such as Germany, that have accepted massive numbers of refugees in a short time.
What is already known is that there are a large number of refugees within the camp for whom Dublin 3 should already work in their favour.
The world will face that question with particular urgency over the next decade, as vast numbers of refugees from Syria and other conflict zones stream across borders.
UK Home Secretary Theresa May expressed those fears in an anti-immigrant speech yesterday, even though Britain has taken in only a tiny number of refugees (20,000 compared to Germany's 800,000).
But this growth and the change that has resulted from large numbers of refugees converting to Christianity can present challenges for smaller churches.
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.
Pew researchers found that the highest number of refugees relocated to the U.S. last year came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Syria, Burma, Iraq and Somalia.
Mayor John Tory says Toronto may be forced to open emergency centre for growning number of refugee claimants
Despite previous plans to admit the highest number of refugees in decades, the United States will shut its doors to thousands displaced by conflict in the Middle East — at least temporarily — under an executive order President Donald Trump signed Friday.
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Mayor John Tory says Toronto may be forced to open emergency centre for growing number of refugee claimants
The last fifty years have seen massive numbers of refugees in many parts of the world, for example the Palestinians in the Middle East, or refugees from Tibet, or recently in Rwanda.
Scattering across Europe and the Middle East, more than a million of those displaced relocated to Lebanon, a country now home to the largest number of refugees per capita in the world.
Brian (comment # 2), reconsider your reality: are you speaking of the ever - growing number of refugees moving in droves, even as we speak, from draught - stricken, war - ravaged sub-Saharan Africa («northern latitudes»?)
Uganda is hosting a vast number of refugees from South Sudan that have flowed into the country over the past year as people flee civil war, severe food shortages and the consequent collapse of economy and opportunity for self - determination.
«They and other countries with large numbers of refugees, like Kenya, need more help, or the entire refugee regime will collapse.»
She called for the preservation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive order President Barack Obama signed that shielded undocumented youth from deportation, and for the United States to accept a larger number of refugees from Syria.
Merkel has resisted pressure from allies within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to put a cap on the number of refugees entering Germany, which is expected to top 1 million this year.
«I've gone to visit a number of these refugee camps run by the government over the past few months, and the conditions are very bad,» Giustra says.
In Germany, everything available is used for accommodation, including sports halls and youth hostels, but the number of refugees and migrants is so high that there is not enough room to house everyone.
Instead, the number of refugees admitted to the country has plummeted.
In response, the Refugee Council said: «With the number of refugees at a record high, we urge the Government to go further and commit to resettling people from around the world, at least at current numbers, for as long as it is needed.»
Prefacing the report, IRC president and CEO, David Miliband, asks: «How is it that women and girls make up the highest number of refugees and displaced populations, and yet, they are the least visible?
The commission's top recommendation to address the surge in displaced people is that the US government should raise the ceiling on the number of refugees resettled from 70,000 to at least 100,000, with «additional reserves» for the Middle East.
Last month, World Relief nearly doubled the number of refugees it resettles in the United States in a typical month.
She faults the Obama administration and US resettlement agencies which plan to increase the number of refugees resettled but have failed to support legislation that would fast track Christians for resettlement in America.
2017 could see a significant increase in the number of refugees that are welcomed to the United States.
It will also cut the number of refugees allowed in the country in half.
Soerens and Shea joined Morgan and Katelyn to discuss what obstacles may be facing Syrian Christians trying to enter the United States, why many may have remained in their homeland, and whether the US should double the number of refugees it admits annually.
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