Sentences with phrase «people fleeing war»

Horrifying images of young people fleeing war - torn regions circulate online, and it can be overwhelming for students to see other young people suffering.

To help refugees settle, doctors in Europe will need to treat both the mental and physical problems commonly experienced by people fleeing war zones

The government seems to be constantly on the look out for ways to return people fleeing war and persecution and in fact has operated a de-facto child return system for years.

Australia is walking away from its international obligations to people fleeing war and persecution — commonly known as refugees or asylum seekers.

Not exact matches

The Republic of China lost to the Mao Zedong - led People's Republic of China in the country's civil war ending in 1949 and had to flee to Taiwan.

Nearly 5 million Syrians have fled the country in a conflict that has killed more than 300,000 people and pitted multiple warring sides against each other, including jihadists who have come to dominate the insurgency in many areas.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

Currently, more than 2 million people have been forced to flee the country during a horrific civil war that has been raging for the last two years.

Today marks five years since the start of the Syrian Civil War and in that time, more than 4.7 million people have fled violence in the country and 6.6 million more have been internally displaced.

«This would be a major reversal from their history as places of war and bloodshed that people have fled from.»

In the single month of January 2016, at least 244 people — many of them children — died while trying to make it to Europe, fleeing violence, persecution and war in countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

In spite of that, human rights organizations argue that European governments are being too restrictive on people who are just searching for a better life, or worse, fleeing war and other danger.

One million people who have survived and fled the civil war in Syria and ISIS in Iraq now face the deadly cold of winter without the basic necessities to keep them alive: shelter, heaters, warm clothing, mattresses, blankets, and, of course, food.

Some 1.9 million people have fled a civil war in South Sudan which broke out in 2013.

Ukraine has absorbed 1.5 million displaced persons fleeing Crimea or the war - zones of the Donbas — the rough equivalent of the United States being suddenly confronted with about 12.4 million internal refugees.

Reflecting on the session, Pienaar said: «After having been through so much, fleeing war and persecution to then arriving in the UK and facing a new language and culture, these sessions give people a chance to forget about their troubles for an hour or so, make new friends and feel part of the community.

Analysts suggest the prevalence of Syrian, Libyan, Eritrean, Somalian and Afghan asylum seekers shows most people coming to the UK are fleeing violence and civil war.

At the Refugee Council, we work on a daily basis with people who have fled unimaginable acts of war, torture and persecution.

New York City is a proud immigrant city, and we will not turn our back on that history or the people being persecuted and fleeing war.»

For Palestinians, Tuesday marks the anniversary of «naqba,» or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of people fled or were forced from their homes during the war surrounding Israel's founding.

Look at asylum seekers» countries of origin and they follow a predictable pattern: where there is war, brutal repression and large scale human rights abuses with impunity, people will inevitably flee.

Over 85 % of people who flee their country because of war or repression worldwide are hosted in developing countries.

He put out a poster featuring dark - skinned people fleeing violence and war emblazoned with the phrase: «Breaking point.»

Weighing in on one of the most contentious issues in American politics — the danger posed to host countries by the 4.8 million people who have fled from Syria's civil war — Syrian President Bashar al - Assad told Yahoo News that some of the refugees are «definitely» terrorists.

Clegg said Ukip warnings were based on a «a totally false assumption that if we leave the EU people will not continue to try to flee war, attrition and hunger and come to the UK».

David Cameron has been subject to significant behind - the - scenes lobbying from Tory MPs who believe Britain should take in many more people fleeing Syria's civil war.

A worker at The Gambia's main ferry crossing has told the BBC that thousands of people are fleeing every day as they are «afraid of war».

Cote d'Ivoire's civil war stems, at least in part, from ethnic clashes after masses of people fled the northern dry lands of Burkina Faso for the coast.

The civil war in Syria has forced a record 3 million people out of the country as more than a million people fled in the past year.

In French and Tamil, the drama follows three people fleeing civil - war - torn Sri Lanka.

Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future.

He spent time in 40 refugee camps, meeting people who have fled war, famine and political upheaval from the Middle East to northern Africa.

For many commentators, journalists or NGO workers, it was unacceptable that people who had to flee their countries because of war or persecution had to be situated in a closed centre guarded by officers in military uniforms1.

Stepping Stones When civil war reaches their Syrian village, Rama and her family must flee with only the things they can carry to join the «river of people» searching for a better life.

Several months ago, Prosper and Alice Gahungu and their three children fled their homeland, where thousands of people have been massacred in a civil war between the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis.

The rising number of people fleeing their countries to avoid war, violence and prosecution and trying to reach Europe seeking for asylum has brought to the surface the European refugee crisis.

The war in Syria has meant millions of people have fled the country, and hundreds of thousands of children now don't have a school to go to.

Hostility is rising between the Tamil and Sinhala people, though, and as war erupts between them, Yasodhara's family flees to the U.S., and Shiva's family to England.

So many people have stepped on land mines, so many have gotten hurt by war, have lost their families, fled their homes.

But during the long and sad years of civil war thousands of people from the war zones fled to the safety and Freedom of Belize.

The Mestizos were a people of half Spanish and half Indian descent and the war between the three factions forced thousands of people to flee their homes and seek refuge in Corozal Town.

When Turkish photographer Furkan Temir was just a teenager, he saw a huge influx of Kurdish people, fleeing civil war in neighbouring Syria.

There are more people fleeing persecution today than at any time since World War II.