Sentences with phrase «war refugees from»

However, at the same time up to 12,000 war refugees from Eastern Europe were descending on Australia per year.

Thanks to a remarkable woman, young war refugees from three continents have found a new home on a soccer team in Georgia

Not exact matches

Member states from Sweden to Greece to Hungary already blame the EU for saddling the confederation with 1 million refugees from Syria and other war - torn countries.

Earlier this month the New York Times sent out over 1 million free Google Cardboard headsets to promote its VR movie The Displaced, which takes a closer look at refugees displaced from their homes due to persecution or war.

They also don't want to have a shooting war occur and have 20 million refugees from North Korea go into China.

The mass movement of people from the war - torn Middle East into Europe and the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War has become the single-most dominant political issue across the continewar - torn Middle East into Europe and the greatest refugee crisis since the Second World War has become the single-most dominant political issue across the contineWar has become the single-most dominant political issue across the continent.

Catholic Charities here has fed, clothed, sheltered many people, including a large population of refugees from the Vietnam war, many of them «boat people».

Pray for wisdom for our world leaders, that they would open borders and find ways to help refugees fleeing from war.

More than half (54 %) of the 1.3 million refugees applying for asylum in Europe in 2015 came from the war - torn, Muslim - majority countries of Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

More than half of Americans (53 %) said that not accepting refugees would be the best approach the US could take regarding those fleeing civil war in Syria, according to a poll Bloomberg conducted from November 16 — 17 of 628 Americans.

«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.

Before these bodies could report» and probably because im partial investigation was likely to reveal a very different picture from that suggested by the WJC» the WJC added two further demands to the Swiss authorities: compensation for refugees allegedly denied asylum by the Swiss during the war, and compensation for bars of gold sold to Switzerland by Nazi Germany that were allegedly made from the fillings of victims» teeth.

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

Hüseyin's family just relocated from Syria as war refugees.

Sponsor homeless alcoholics and released prisoners, much as churches sponsor refugees from war - devastated countries.

A local church provided a base for Marksteen to meet refugees fleeing from the war - torn country.

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

Otter - Pass still has deep ties in the refugee community and have been inspired first hand by the dads and moms we know who gave up everything — their homes, their extended families, their entire lives — to save their children from war and persecution.

His early years were spent as a cattle herder in the area known as South Sudan, but, like many from the region, was forced to live in a refugee camp after his nation became divided by war.

also my Grandma was a refugee from the second world war and she would cry (if she was still alive) if she heard of this going on bringing back Horrible memories of the Atrocities of what the Germans did..

Others were students from Europe who became refugees after the Second World War.

During the war years, the university made a point of welcoming European refugee scholars — many from Germany; some, like Enrico Fermi, from Italy — who helped to create an international atmosphere at Chicago.

Kerry argued that the refugee crisis from the Syrian civil war was destabilizing Jordan.

The SBC noted that «the world is facing the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with over 60 million people displaced throughout the world and considered refugees,» and that «there are expected to be 85,000 refugees coming into the United States in 2016 from four continents and the Caribbean.»

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.»

Then there was Smith's encounter with a bus full of refugees, lost children from war - ravaged countries and shattered families, forged into a soccer team and made to feel that they mattered by a Muslim woman on the outskirts of Atlanta.

There is only one moment, recounting the horrors that shaped his childhood and life as a refugee from the Bosnian war, when it all seems like it might -LRB-...)

This cold act as a crucial lifeline to the thosands ofunaccompanied refugee children who have made treacheros jorneys from war torn cotries either alone from the start or who have lost parents and guardians en rote.

The principal argument, to my knowledge, that Europe ought to take in refugees from Syria (and other war torn countries) is a moral one.

It's just part of a # 127m response to the emergency in East Africa that should benefit a staggering three million people, including thousands of refugees from war - torn Somalia.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Manhattan Democrat and the most liberal member of the state's House delegation, tore into Trump's Syria strike, and further assailed the Republican commander - in - chief's opposition to admitting refugees from the war - bloodied country.

It is more likely that Beijing will try to use its influence over North Korea in order to prevent the eruption of a war in the Korean peninsula, thus, keeping the US distant from its borders and avoiding a massive wave of North Korean refugees knocking on its doors.

It also put in place an indefinite ban for all refugees from the war - torn country Syria.

Fidel Castro's key dates 1926: Born in the south - eastern Oriente Province of Cuba 1953: Imprisoned after leading an unsuccessful rising against Batista's regime 1955: Released from prison under an amnesty deal 1956: With Che Guevara, begins a guerrilla war against the government 1959: Defeats Batista, sworn in as prime minister of Cuba 1960: Fights off CIA - sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles 1962: Sparks Cuban missile crisis by agreeing that USSR can deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba 1976: Elected president by Cuba's National Assembly 1992: Reaches an agreement with US over Cuban refugees 2008: Stands down as president of Cuba due to health issues

@Bregalad The waves of refugees are not because of the so - called dictators but from encouraging rebellions and civil wars by the western powers.

The prime minister has faced accusations of heartlessness after he insisted yesterday that Britain should not take any further refugees from the war - torn Middle East.

Republican Western New York Rep. Chris Collins and Assemblyman Christopher Friend cited the threat of terrorism when they called on Cuomo to reject additional refugees from the war - torn Middle Eastern nation of Syria.

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.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler tore into President Donald Trump's decision to launch a missile assault on a Syrian airbase yesterday evening in retaliation for dictator Bashar al - Assad's use of nerve gas against a rebel - held town — and further assailed the Republican commander - in - chief's opposition to admitting refugees from the war - bloodied country.

She went from a refugee running from war in Bosnia and Herzegovina with her family to working for the now defunct bank in Canary Wharf.

«The majority of the refugees arriving on European shores in the last year have come from countries that are at war, in conflict or under dictatorship.»

On top of that many of those bombing Syria like the US & UK are not willing to take in any refugees from the war they are escalating.

While at a public school near the Zahle camp, Tenney said she heard from a Syrian refugee students who asked for American help in ending the civil war in his homeland.

Apart from this, The Netherlands is a welcoming country for political and war refugees.

Over time, neighborhoods on the industrial west side changed from solidly African American to Latino, Asian — many of them refugees from war - torn Southeast Asia — and other racial and ethnic groups.

For more than a year, world news has reported desperate refugees, most from war - torn Syria, dying in their attempts to reach Europe.

More than a million people live in the volcano's shadow, many of them refugees from years of civil war and the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda.

To understand diseases that are widespread in poor, war - torn countries, scientists study refugees from those nations that are infected with those diseases.

Offering Western - style clothing that are MORE covered up has been making lots of ladies happier, and more comfortable, and they are not all refugees from war - torn areas.

Could it be due to the slew of refugees in recent years from the Middle East fleeing war - torn areas and are swaying fashion in their favour??