Sentences with phrase «refugees fleeing»

The first option is to revise the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees to include climate (or environmental) refugees and to offer legal protections similar to those for refugees fleeing political persecution.

In reality, the total number of environmental refugees fleeing climate change so far around the world is close to zero.

«Millions of climate refugees fleeing from poor nations» and the resulting political instability represents a potential security threat to the USA.

After a period of vacancy, it served as an immigration center for Cuban refugees fleeing Fidel Castro's regime.

In 1949, the 7 - year - old DIAO carried a small piece of baggage, coming to Hong Kong with his family in a flurry, «it felt just like the refugees fleeing to Europe today,» he recalled.

This route echoes the perilous journey and plight of millions of Syrian refugees fleeing the war.

Ai Weiwei (I know, I know) puts in his two cents via Safe Passage, 2016, two columns wrapped with life jackets — recovered from actual refugees fleeing regional destabilization, though whether the items hail from the successfully emigrated or the lost at sea seems intentionally ambiguous — looming outside a large window of the Yokohama Museum, perhaps the most drastic image of recycling attempted in a triennial yet.

For her installation on the Museum façade, American - born artist Judith Barry has chosen to work with some of the hundreds of drone images depicting refugees fleeing their homes and seeking a new life elsewhere.

One layers modern incidents of refugees fleeing from conflict with a crisis in 1654, when Sephardic Jews fled from Brazil to Barbados.

From refugees fleeing conflict, or facing oppression and natural disasters, to immigrants seeking opportunities and freedoms in new regions, the nomad presents as contemporary archetype.

While Shadow Procession features generalized images of anonymous refugees fleeing hunger, violence, and illness, the men and women moving through More Sweetly Play the Dance seem to tell a more Africa - specific narrative.

From 2011 to 2016 Fabio Bucciarelli photographed the plight of refugees fleeing the uprisings of the «Arab Spring.»

The town was built by refugees fleeing civil war between Mestizos and Indians in Mexico.

Abawi's narrative traces the harrowing experiences of refugees fleeing Syria, putting a voice to the images of tragedy that flooded western media for a time before other news took their place.

Buckley issued an open letter to Roosevelt asking support for legislation that would make the frontier territory of Alaska a haven for refugees fleeing the Nazis.

Kakuma, a large camp in northwestern Kenya, received more than 20,000 refugees fleeing violence in South Sudan, Somalia, and other countries in 2012 alone.

Though South Africa opened its borders and welcomed refugees fleeing persecutions, the current approach towards treatment of refugees shows a sign of a fatigue of hosting refugees.45 It becomes a metaphysical question as to whether Rwandan refugees should blame South Africa for having laws that protect the human rights and interests of its citizens or whether they blame the superpowers foreign policies that led to the negation of the principles of human and refugee rights, resulting in their current sufferings and predicament or whether they blame the oppressive regime installed in Rwanda, a regime only interested in tracking them down for assassination.

Little Ripples (LR) is an early childhood development program operating in the Goz Amer camp in Chad set up help refugees fleeing conflict in South Sudan.

The gritty drama tells the story of refugees fleeing post-civil war Sri Lanka.

As Hurricane Shelley sends refugees fleeing like rats, Victor Frankenstein discovers that his...

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps» War (Unrated) Ken Burns co-directed this documentary recounting the heroic mission mounted in 1939 by American minister Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha to rescue scores of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation of Europe.

• «Human Flow,» Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's globetrotting look at refugees fleeing violence and poverty on several continents, is a documentary that's heartbreaking, immediate and beautiful.

Countries worldwide have had similar debates with regards to refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria.

She led Europe through a potential currency crisis and threw open Germany's doors to a wave of refugees fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq, leading by example in a time where many European leaders were hesitant to open their borders to outsiders.

Within 24 hours hundreds of refugees fleeing the devastated city had begun crossing the border into this sleepy Dominican town,...

Cox proposes seafaring merchants thrown off course, or refugees fleeing political strife; the latter could explain why women, usually not found on trade ships, were on board.

The mushroom nicknamed «death cap» made headlines this summer when it poisoned Syrian refugees fleeing through Eastern Europe.

But the first - term congresswoman and Trump supporter said she does not believe his order is anti-Muslim, nor aimed at closing America's doors to refugees fleeing persecution.

An international charity group, Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, has disclosed that about 200 refugees fleeing Boko Haram militants have died of hunger in Bama, Borno State...

In 1986, at the height of the civil war in El Salvador, the Suffolk County Legislature declared the county a place of sanctuary for refugees fleeing conflict in Central America.

The party believes in Britain as an «open, trading nation», «within the European Union and beyond» and celebrates openness to «visitors who boost our economy», «migrant workers who play a vital role in business and public services» and «refugees fleeing persecution».

Wading into the national debate about potential security risks posed by refugees fleeing violence in Syria, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton today said he is more concerned with people on terrorist watch lists being able to purchase firearms.

Welsh Conservative leader says UK «must be willing to take its share» of refugees fleeing warzones in Syria.

This has the benefit of creating pressure on our government to act - as we saw recently with the climbdown over Britain's lack of support for refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria.

Wading into the national debate about potential security risks posed by refugees fleeing violence in Syria, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said he is more concerned with people on terrorist watch lists being able to purchase firearms.

As Home Office minister James Brokenshire told me in parliament this week, refugees fleeing conflict should not be turned back at the border.

Britain accused of failing in its responsibility to Syria, after Amnesty International criticises its failure to offer a single place to refugees fleeing the fighting

Britain was accused of failing in its responsibility to Syria today, after Amnesty International criticised its failure to offer a single place to refugees fleeing the fighting.

Isis have always hated the refugees fleeing Syria and the feeling is mutual.

Brooklyn Downtown Star article on BP Adams launching a baby carrier collection drive for refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East.

More recently, we have given sanctuary to thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.

For example, refugees fleeing wars of independence faced a perilous and tough experience, but in some cases were welcomed by independent governments in solidarity with states in which the anti-colonial war had not yet been won.

It will mean that Sudan does not again become a base for terrorism, or a source of refugees fleeing to neighbouring countries.

Europe should accept a small number of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean in boats, but only if they're Christian, Nigel Farage insisted today.

From «the dictator is killing his own people» to the «regime is using chemical weapons» to the need to establish «No Fly Zones» to safeguard «refugees fleeing Assad»... propaganda has been liberally used to build the justification for foreign military intervention.

The Ukip leader caused a furious backlash from his party members over the weekend after saying that David Cameron had a duty to take in Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives.

Imagine a multitude of religious refugees fleeing the former nation and flocking to the latter.

A steady stream of refugees fleeing the violence in Lybia are attempting to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea, often traveling in unstable boats operated by human traffickers...

The president of the Christian aid organization World Relief is speaking out a new executive order that President Trump is expected to sign soon, effectively banning refugees fleeing violence from coming to America.

The president of the Christian aid organization World Relief is speaking out a new executive order that President Trump is expected to sign soon, effectively banning refugees fleeing violence from...