Sentences with phrase «of desperate refugees»

In essence, the Danish government passed a law to take away the lifelines of the desperate refugees entering their country.

A poster on the streets of Britain that demonised hundreds of desperate refugees, including hungry, terrified children, fleeing from the terror of Isis and from Russian bombs.

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These are lines we can not cross if we want to hold on to a functioning human civilization — not a collection of failed states, desperate environmental refugees and collapsing food systems.

No responsible American is blaming desperate Syrian refugees for the terrorist attacks in Paris, but there is a legitimate concern that members of ISIS, who have repeatedly declared their intent to harm America, will try to mingle amongst them, to secure a presence here.

Here's a look at what you can do to help the millions of Syrians now living in refugee camps, many of whom are in desperate need of basic goods like blankets, school supplies, clothes and food...

Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war against ethnic and religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.

Here many refugees, from almost all parts of the Union, fled to escape justice or punishment; for although there was law, yet it could not be executed, and it was a desperate state of society.

It was this human capital that took a desperate refugee population in Hong Kong and turned it into a world - class financial center; this human capital that saw Japan and South Korea arise from the ashes of war; this human capital whose success in turning around centuries of poverty has led to what the World Bank calls «The East Asian Miracle.»

Many of the hundreds of Syrian refugees stuck at Calais have become so desperate that they are willing to risk their lives by clinging to lorries leaving the port for Britain.

Still desperate to enlist despite his obvious physical defects, Rogers accompanies his best friend James «Bucky» Barnes to the World Expo, where his latest attempt to enlist attracts the attention of Dr. Abraham Erskine, a German refugee who has created an experimental super-soldier serum.

The film's story revolves around Caesar's ape community coming under attack from a desperate human army led by a truly chilling Woody Harrelson (The Edge of Seventeen, Now You See Me 2), whose base Caesar sets out to infiltrate while he sends his people away as refugees to a place of hoped - for safety.

Many of these refugees end up in foreign countries, in desperate conditions, and with no knowledge of the local language.

Inspire your students with the untold story of American upstanders who risked their lives to help desperate refugees.

Traveling with forged papers and depending on the kindness of strangers, Fereiba and the children make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness, the start of a harrowing journey that reduces her from a respected wife and mother to a desperate refugee.

Travelling the refugee route, from desperate desert camps in Syria to the squatter camps and asylum centres of Europe, Edward gives powerful and profound commentary on the failures of integration.

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.»

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

Desperate refugees seeking the sanctuary of nations not their own.

Because when I see the storms that we're all heading into, the scarcity and instability and violence, and I see what those with wealth and power are prepared to do to hold onto that wealth and power — when I see my country scapegoating entire classes of people and closing its doors to desperate refugees — I know it matters all the more what kind of a government, what kind of a democracy, what kind of a society we have, what kind of a people we will be, as we head into that future.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

Instead, the news was dominated by Donald Trump, after he doubled - down on his call for an outright ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Not just desperate refugees from Syria (my country was already shutting the doors on them), but any and all people of the Muslim faith.

This travel ban has caused large - scale rights violations and senseless family separation, and left thousands of refugees stranded in desperate circumstances.