Sentences with phrase «of refugee children who»

In Kampala he found thousands of refugee children who were not permitted to go to school.

Artist Statement This poster shows the look of a refugee child who has had to flee Syria with his family to avoid dying under the hell of bombs.

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The children, some of whom are refugees who've relocated with their families to San Antonio via Catholic Charities, lit up, voicing their excitement about having a hands - on role in the project.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

«Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war,» said NAE president Leith Anderson.

Most refugees from the Middle East are women and children who have suffered the assaults of ISIS terrorists and civil war.

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.

After losing his own father to war, he became one of the «Lost Boys of Sudan» who traveled thousands of miles alone as a child to a large refugee camp in Kenya.

«As Christian leaders, we have a commitment to caring for the vulnerable in our churches while also supporting just, compassionate, and welcoming policies toward refugees and other immigrants,» the letter opens, going on to request legal protection for the Dreamers who entered the US as children, an increase in the admittance of refugees and persecuted Christians, and quicker priority for immigrants seeking to reunite with their families.

Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako told Aid to the Church in Need: «Death and sickness are grabbing the children and elderly people among the thousands of refugee families spread over the Kurdistan Region who lost everything in the recent tragic developments while the ISIS militants are still advancing and the humanitarian aid is insufficient.

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.

And the on - again off - again Ukip leader Nigel Farage tweeted: «Pictures of the «child» refugees entering from Calais prove the need to verify who is coming into our country.»

Pictures of the «child» refugees entering from Calais prove the need to verify who is coming into our country.

Within several years of arrival, dozens of the Somali families whose children were born in the U.S. found themselves grappling with autism, says Huda Farah, a Somali - born molecular biologist who works on refugee resettlement issues with Minnesota health officials.

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.

The story in Children of Men revolves around one man, Theo Faron (Owen, Inside Man), who is kidnapped by a terrorist organization headed by his ex-wife Julian (Moore, Freedomland), who uses him to try to get travel permits in order to bring in a young African refugee, and that he must accompany her back.

Redgrave juxtaposes our horrifying present of inadequate refugee quotas and humanitarian disasters (like last year's clearing of the Calais migrant camp) with the refugee crises of WWII and its aftermath, recalled with archival footage, contemporary news reports and personal testimony — including an interview with the eloquent Labor politician Lord Dubs, who was one of the children rescued by the Kindertransport.

Clunky though not uninteresting in its assembly, and admirably direct in its anger and passion, the film features interviews with migrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Guinea and elsewhere, as well as direct - to - camera narration from Redgrave, who speaks of everything from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to her own refugee status as a child forced to flee London during World War II.

The material is perfect for a Oscar type film, with a young child who joins a group of refugees after the death of his parents.

Afineesky was with Aaron Butler who worked on editing the documentary that takes us onto the streets of Syria, to the shine a light on the plight children and Syrian refugees.

On the basis of the definition, the paper argues that basic education develops refugee children's personalities, talents and mental physical abilities and prepares them to be responsible adults who are productive and protect themselves against economic shocks.

This link becomes obvious e.g. when the students learn about the life of children in a refugee camp in Malawi or when they make friends with students in Afghanistan who are both directly suffering from the violence surrounding them.

Many among the HGSE community participated in the event, including Assistant Professor Sarah Dryden - Peterson, who delivered the following address on the importance of educating refugee children.

To build a future in the midst of uncertainty, refugee children need teachers who are trained, a well - developed curriculum that builds skills and knowledge, and the possibility of certifying their learning.

«Instead of going to a government official and saying all students deserve to be in school, what we normally say at UNICEF and what is true, we should also say that if we don't get refugee children in schools, those children (especially adolescents) will be competing for jobs with the Jordanian youth, who are suffering from unemployment, and so will negatively affect the country's economy.»

This paper will argue that the success of Child - to - Child methodology with children living in refugee and displaced persons» camps and other difficult circumstances underscores the importance of rights - based participation of children in issues that affect them, and will demonstrate that meaningful participation helps build resilience in children, especially those who have experienced traumatic events.

#NakedTeachingDay is designed to raise awareness of the plight of children from less developed countries who attend makeshift schools in slums, refugee camps etc..

To date, about 245 000 Rwandan refugee, including women, children, elderly and the infirm, remain in the forest of DRC without any humanitarian assistance.30 Some who escaped the horrendous campaign sought refuge in Africa, South Africa included, and elsewhere, including Europe and the United States (US).

This means we all share responsibility to educate the 59 million children who today are not in school, to close the educational opportunity gaps facing girls, poor children, and children of marginalized groups around the world, including refugees, and we must take responsibility to ensure that all children who do attend school indeed learn what is necessary to be empowered global citizens.

On top of the anti-immigrant and refugee policies, the latest budget proposals from the administration and Congress have the potential to severely cut services to those who are the poorest among us — the homeless, frail homebound seniors, people with disabilities, poor children in after school programs.

Many handbooks and tool kits have been published to help teachers deal with the challenges of teaching refugee children who have lived through trauma and violence and must now adjust to the unyielding demands of finding their place in a new culture.

According to a report from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there were 10.4 million «refugees of concern» in 2012, and almost half of those who were forced to leave their homes because of war or other peril were children.

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.

Using as a formalist departure point the measurement, «a home that is half of a four by six foot cubicle,» which served as a critique of the treatment of Vietnamese refugees who were given the minimal amount of space in the camps, Ngô combines architectural sculpture with traces of her siblings» experiences, which are at times poignant, humorous, and profound, but always expressing a full range of agency often denied to children and refugees alike.

In this exhibition of new work, Hương Ngô draws from the stories of her family's year - long stay in Hong Kong refugee camps through the eyes of her siblings, who were children at the time.

And nobody will need to tell them that their lives are fraught, difficult and dangerous — just as no - one needs to tell the climate refugee children who today are dying of starvation and disease; rotting in refugee camps as prey for radicalizing terrorist recruiters, human traffickers, or sexual predators; or just drowning quietly somewhere in the Mediterranean.

The headlines are full of the heartbreaking stories of these refugees — including young children — who have died trying to reach safety in other countries.

In particular, such an interpretation would entail that two different unaccompanied children of the same age and who have applied at the same for the refugee status, would be treated differently with regards to their right to family reunification depending on how quick or slow the national authorities would process their application (paras 55 - 56).

a. Those who are the subject of international parental disputes over custody or contact; b. Those who are the subject of international abduction (including in those states which are not able to join the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention); c. Those who are placed abroad in alternative care arrangements which do not come within the definition of adoption and are therefore outside the scope of the 1993 Hague Inter-country Adoption Convention; d. Those who are the subject of cross-border trafficking and other forms of exploitation, including sexual abuse; e. Those who are refugees or unaccompanied minors.

I grew up in the Silicon Valley, as the child of Vietnamese refugees, raised by two visionaries who established amazing careers in tech despite not having command of the English language when they arrived.

Prior to joining Rise Women's Legal Centre, Vandana was a sole practitioner and practised primarily in the areas of family law, child protection law (as parent's counsel) and immigration & refugee law, with a focus on assisting women of color who had experienced family violence.

[6] It was populated then by pre-WWI Jewish refugees (and their children and grandchildren) who had been forced out from places like the last scene of the movie production of Fiddler on the Roof.

«I think of all of those children living in refugee camps who won't have this opportunity.?

We address the critical and unmet needs of those who fall through the cracks of humanitarian assistance and have no other options for survival, with a focus on women, children, and urban refugees.

About Blog We work to fill the critical and unmet needs of people affected by war and conflict who have fallen through the net of humanitarian assistance, in particular women, children and urban refugees.

This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children currently living in the United States.

It will prioritise research into: children who have experienced trauma; young people at risk of offending behaviour; carers — particularly those caring for someone with depression and anxiety; elderly Australians especially those in residential aged care; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees and other potentially vulnerable cultural minority groups.

Whilst emotional and behavioural distress was experienced by children who had lost both parents, these children were found to function better than accompanied refugee children on measures of cognition and language.

The findings that children and adolescents accompanied by family members are less distressed than those who arrive accompanied by relatives corroborate the findings of Kinzie et al. (1986; 1989) who demonstrated that it was neither the amount nor type of trauma witnessed, nor the child's age or gender that predicted PTSD in Cambodian refugees.