Sentences with phrase «refugee humanitarian work»

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Harun Khan, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, said the work of DEC is of «paramount humanitarian importance» to the Rohingya refugees.

With the ANC government impassive in the face of this humanitarian disaster, the work of caring for Zimbabwean refugees has fallen to the region's churches, which have used whatever piteously small resources they have to see that these people do not literally die on the streets.

If the Somali women in Shaffer's piece view working as instrumental, so does the neoliberal governmentality agenda, according to Elisabeth Olivius, who examines humanitarian aid workers in refugee camps in Thailand and Bangladesh.

The British and European approach to the migrant and refugee humanitarian crisis simply isn't working.

Yesterday's announcement that the UNHCR and Google are mapping humanitarian work in refugee camps is a really encouraging sign of what's to come in online advocacy.

While teenaged daughter Stephanie (Lauryn Canny) is using her mom's old photos for a school project, Rebecca gets an offer to work in a safe refugee camp in Kenya, where she'll document the humanitarian efforts.

It not only provides a forum for informal diplomacy among high - ranking officials, but also an opportunity to highlight the extraordinary humanitarian work of those who go beyond the call of duty on behalf of refugees, internally displaced or stateless people.

Without any post-secondary institutions available that would have enabled him to pursue further education within the camp, he started working as an interpreter within the refugee camp for the various humanitarian agencies.

As a result of this research, the WRC has worked with the UN and humanitarian organizations to develop and disseminate tools to provide for the safe collection of fuel in refugee camps.

She is a meditation teacher, grief counselor, and recently won a humanitarian award from President Obama for her work helping Syrian refugees in Europe.

Exploring the historic arc of migration, Akomfrah's work is particularly pertinent given the migration issues and refugee crisis — and surrounding humanitarian concerns and political debates — currently dominating international cooperation and nation - state decision making.

Design Within Reach is selling the BeeBoard Desk - «When Piet Boon was asked to create mobile housing for some of the world's vast refugee population, he saw it not only as an opportunity to engage in humanitarian work, but to pioneer new uses for sound building materials that could benefit other populations.

The course begins with a general introduction to international peacekeeping and peace support operations and international humanitarian law and students can complement these modules with optional modules such as conflict and post-conflict studies, human rights field work, and refugee law.

We chose these three organizations because of the inspiring work they do in providing humanitarian assistance to refugees and displaced people as well as in defense of justice, human rights, and civil rights.

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