Sentences with phrase «who fled the war»

In her series Dreamy Saigon, Babeth explores her heritage: «I was born in Paris from French / Vietnamese parents who fled the war in the»70s, and as a teen, I've always thought of Saigon as my «real» hometown (both my parents were born there).

The painter had studied philosophy and art history and, as a professional artist, had frequent dialogues about automatism with the colony of European surrealists who fled the war to live in the United States.

Not exact matches

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.

Fleeing war - torn China for Hong Kong in 1940, Li found factory work while also caring for his ailing father, who soon died from tuberculosis.

Many fights happen between migrants, who are coming into Europe searching for better economic opportunities — and will likely see their asylum claim rejected — and refugees, who are fleeing war and persecution and are almost guaranteed to have their asylum demand accepted.

The embassy move is deeply opposed by the Palestinians, who on May 15 will mark the anniversary of what they term the «nabka,» or catastrophe, when they fled or were driven from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war.

After three years of Islamic State occupation and devastation in the wake of the ISIS war, our local partners are sharing stories of continued hope for the Nineveh Plains and the believers who were forced to flee when militants issued their ultimatum: «Convert, leave or die.»

An influential Syrian seminary educator who asked not to be named told CT that Syrian Christians are very aware of what happened to Christians in Iraq, including the estimated 500,000 Christian refugees who fled to Syria during the Iraq war.

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.

Hence, many of the Arabs who were driven out or fled during and after the several wars, and who are now housed in camps on the West Bank or in Lebanon or who live in Gaza or Jordan, have no more right to the land than do the Jews who came there from Europe, America or the Arab countries.

That anouncement marks a major shift in US policy — since the civil war begin in Syria four years ago, the US has resettled 1,600 Syrians out of the 4 million who have fled the nation.

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.

But I've got friends who have been here for 10 years as pastors and missionaries and still have to go back to their country of citizenship... I mean they're volunteering, leading movements, pastoring churches — much less someone fleeing persecution or poverty or war.

Refugees of the Unitas Fratrum, Bohemian and Moravian Protestants who traced their origin to John Hus and who had fled from the Roman Catholic persecution in their native land which accompanied and followed the Thirty Years» War, found haven on the estates of Zinzendorf.

After fleeing to the United States for several years, she returned to Liberia to run for the office of president against Charles Taylor, a man who has since been convicted of war crimes.She lost that election, but through the campaigning process became known as Liberia's Iron Lady.

Bayern follow in the footsteps of several other German clubs and fan groups who have extended a greeting to refugees amid severe tension in Germany over the treatment of those forced to flee war - torn areas in search of asylum.

You can also talk to your child about refugees who are fleeing war in another country and donate to causes that support them.

In addition to these largely weather - driven disasters, there are emergencies caused by humans as well: wars, terrorists, and even governmental policies are creating emergency situations for families around the globe who may find themselves fleeing from their homes and homeland.

I met Nasser, a doctor from Syria who was forced to flee the war in Syria, where he and his wife faced constant bombardment by the barrel bombs of the Assad regime.

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

Sabir is a Syrian refugee who fled his country after the war broke out.

Miliband was born in the Fitzrovia district of Central London to Polish Jewish immigrants, Marion Kozak, and Ralph Miliband (died 1994); a Marxist intellectual who was a native of Brussels that fled Belgium during World War II.

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

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

A woman who, if she hadn't had to flee a war, in another world where I could have found myself in need of medical assistance in her country, could have been the one to save me.

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.

«I never thought I'd see the day when refugees, who have fled war - torn countries in search of a better life, would be turned away at our doorstep,» Cuomo said in a statement issued Saturday.

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.

«What we want to learn from TWU is how we save our industry,» said Ibrahim Barrie, who fled the civil war in Sierra Leone and has driven a pedicab for eight years.

In November 2001, Marsden visited Pakistan and the Afghan border to highlight the plight of Afghan refugees living in camps who had fled the war.

One of the Korean War veterans was a Holocaust survivor who fled the Nazis at 19 years of age, and was drafted into service after settling in the U.S.A..

He described himself as a traditionalist in one way: his belief in the power of ideas to change the country - and talked about his own parents, who fled Nazi persecution during the second world war - but retained their passionate desire to harness ideas - in order to change the world for the better.

«I never thought I'd see the day when refugees who have fled war - torn countries in search of a better life would be turned away at our doorstep,» the governor said in a statement

The researchers finally examined the distribution of the A allele in a group of 347 survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide who had fled the civil war and were living in a Ugandan refugee camp.

2018-04-07 17:25 Hints at new hidden complexities in the human story came from a 400,000 - year - old femur found in a cave in Spain called Sima de los Huesos A woman opened her heart and her door to a 12 - year - old boy who had fled the horrors of war in Afghanistan after losing his parents - or so she thought.

Hints at new hidden complexities in the human story came from a 400,000 - year - old femur found in a cave in Spain called Sima de los Huesos A woman opened her heart and her door to a 12 - year - old boy who had fled the horrors of war in Afghanistan after losing his parents - or so she thought.

At just 12 - years - old, Patrick Mitchell, begged with A woman opened her heart and her door to a 12 - year - old boy who had fled the horrors of war in Afghanistan after losing his parents - or so she thought.

White Material (Unrated) Post-colonial drama, set in a war - torn African country in the midst of racial strife, about a French coffee farmer (Isabelle Huppert) who refuses to flee like the rest of the whites whose plantations have been nationalized.

Below, on Charlie Rose, she also talks about how she digs back into the Holocaust (as she did for one of her favorite roles as an Mossad spy in John Madden's «The Debt») in order to play elderly Jewish woman Maria Altmann, who 60 years after she fled Vienna during World War II, fought to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting «Portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer I.» The Weinstein Company now opens Simon Curtis's «Woman in Gold,» co-starring Ryan Reynolds, on April 1.

PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, THURSDAY, 1:36 PM: Open Road Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the untitled Oliver Stone - directed film that will star Joseph Gordon - Levitt as Edward Snowden, the American who fled to Russia seeking asylum after making public more classified documents than anyone since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War.

At the turn of the century, Maria Altmann, a Jewish Austrian who had fled her home on the eve of World War II, pursued legal action both in Austria and in her new home the United States, seeking the return of the artwork that had been stolen from her family home by the Nazis.

We also see him fall in love with a slave named Rachel (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), and father a child with her, and then allow his white wife Serena (Keri Russell), who took Knight's first born son and fled to Georgia during the war, to return home to live with them.

Henri is the outsider, an Algerian - born frenchman who has fled the war, and the catalyst for Francois to find his identity.

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.

This is The Beguiled, directed by Sofia Coppola, an American Civil War drama, involving a fleeing Union soldier who finds haven in a prim girls» boarding school, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Cullinan, but more famously known as a troublingly brilliant film from 1971 by Don Siegel, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page.

His eighth feature, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is certainly no exception and on this occasion, Anderson delves into the fantastical world of Mittel - Europa and takes inspiration from Stefan Zweig, the late Austrian writer who rose to prominence in the 1920s and 1930s before fleeing the continent as a result of the Second World War.

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.

In The Best We Could Do, I narrate the story of my family who fled from home in a small boat in the late»70s, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Readers who experience a quiet thrill upon discovering an exciting new novel are likely to encounter that sensation when they read Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo's second work of fiction (and her American debut), a fast - paced story of war refugees, militants and others fleeing conflict in modern - day Nigeria.