• UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home. (unhcr.org)
  • UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is providing emergency assistance to those affected by the devastating flooding. (unhcr.org)
  • According to the UNHCR, Lebanon is currently hosting approximately one million Syrian refugees, half of which are children. (ei-ie.org)
  • Over 119 of them [registered refugees] were relocated to Luwani camp where they are properly been hosted by the government of Malawi with support from the UNHCR and the World Food Program," said Lapozo. (voanews.com)
  • This shop is part of UNHCR Jordan's efforts to showcase the talents of refugees living throughout Jordan and promote their products. (bing.com)
  • About 10 percent of the refugees are accommodated in unfinished private houses, and others live in garages, shops and collective shelters, according to the UNHCR. (ynetnews.com)
  • Located in northern Jordan near the border with Syria, the Zaatari refugee camp opened in July 2012 and now houses roughly 129,000 people, according to United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). (nasa.gov)
  • Top officials from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, are meeting with the Kenyan government to discuss efforts to relocate the camps while warning of the humanitarian consequences of the move. (voanews.com)
  • Although the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been administering the Bhutanese refugee camps since the start of the crisis in 1991, it has been systematically excluded by both governments from playing any role in the status determination and repatriation process. (hrw.org)
  • International data for this report were downloaded from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) interactive processing tool on Sept. 26, 2017. (pewresearch.org)
  • According to Khaama Press, before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, around 3.4 million refugees were living in Iran, of which roughly 2 million lacked the proper documentation to do so, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). (nepalnews.com)
  • In line with resolution WHA70.15, the objective of the draft global action plan is to promote the health of refugees and migrants in collaboration with IOM, UNHCR, other international organizations and relevant stakeholders. (who.int)
  • has closely followed crisis of refugees and asylum seekers fleeing war and poverty from across the globe, including the response in Europe and the United States, where a firestorm of controversy erupted over whether to continue to accept Syrian refugees after the deadly attacks in Paris. (democracynow.org)
  • The UK's response to the Syrian refugee crisis means that at least 20,000 refugees from that conflict will arrive between now and 2020. (ei-ie.org)
  • A Global Crisis Now Faez is one of the lucky ones, a refugee who has been granted a new future in the United States. (bing.com)
  • The current crisis comes on top of the 2.2 million Afghan refugees already in neighbouring countries and 3.5 million people forced to flee their homes within Afghanistan's borders. (bing.com)
  • The Syrian conflict, which began in 2011, has resulted in the largest refugee crisis since World War II, with millions of Syrian refugees fleeing to neighboring countries including Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey 1 . (cdc.gov)
  • It's the fear of everything permanent, or semi-permanent, because of the Palestinian experience in Lebanon," said Makram Maleeb, a program manager for a Syrian refugee crisis unit at Lebanon's Ministry for Social Affairs. (ynetnews.com)
  • Lebanese officials say they are aware of the magnitude of the crisis, the health risks involved and the possibility that deepening resentment of refugees among the hosting population could turn into an armed conflict inside Lebanon as the civil war drags on in Syria. (ynetnews.com)
  • Mr McGrath will also provide the latest statistical analysis from his department on the costs arising from measures to deal both with Covid-19 and the Ukrainian refugee crisis. (rte.ie)
  • THANK YOU for your commitment to making sure world leaders prioritized education when they met in New York to discuss the global refugee crisis! (one.org)
  • In a joint statement, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Lutheran World Federation, Refugees International, the U.S. Committee for Refugees, and the Bhutanese Refugee Support Group, called on donor governments and governments in the region to increase pressure on the governments of Bhutan and Nepal to find a just and fair solution to this long-standing refugee crisis. (hrw.org)
  • It is the first multi-sourced digital collection to consider the global scope of the refugee crisis leading up to, through, and after World War II. (gale.com)
  • Italian director Gianfranco Rosi's "Fire at Sea," a harrowing documentary about Europe's refugee crisis, clinched the Berlin film festival's Golden Bear top prize on Feb. 20 from a jury led by Meryl Streep. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • As Afghanistan continue to remain under the grip of a humanitarian crisis, more than 7,000 Afghan refugees have been deported by Iran in the past week, the Taliban-led Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation said on Thursday. (nepalnews.com)
  • As all of you know, Europe is facing its largest refugee crisis since the Second World War. (state.gov)
  • The scale of the Syrian crisis is nearly beyond comprehension: 4.8 million refugees, 8.7 million people displaced inside Syria's borders. (cdc.gov)
  • In the wake and aftermath of the crisis, economic adaptation has become one of the critical concerns to the host society due to the complex challenges refugees encounter in adapting their new life as compared to voluntary migrants. (lu.se)
  • Refugee displacement, almost without exception, is described as a 'crisis' in popular imagination and in policy discourse. (lu.se)
  • Refugee crisis are an archetype of the way crises are conceived and institutionalised. (lu.se)
  • In this lecture Prof. Roger Zetter will ask how and why refugee displacement has become normalised as a 'crisis' phenomenon and question whether there are alternatives to this crisis conception. (lu.se)
  • Unemployment in the U.S. is still a better life for those who have spent years or decades living in refugee camps, said Heidi Moll Schoedel, executive director of Exodus World Ministries in Bloomingdale, Illinois. (christianitytoday.com)
  • At the same time, nearly one quarter of the children in the camps hastily established for these refugees were found to have acute malnutrition. (unhcr.org)
  • Influx of Syrian refugees into Lebanon has raised country's population by fifth, as hundreds, if not thousands, flood into country daily, joining Palestinians in makeshift camps. (ynetnews.com)
  • Lebanon's refusal to set up any kind of organized accommodation for tens of thousands of Syrians - including refugee camps or government-sanctioned tent sites - is a reflection of its own civil war demons. (ynetnews.com)
  • They remain in Lebanon's 12 refugee camps because Israel and the Palestinians have never reached a deal that would enable them to return to their homes that are now in Israel. (ynetnews.com)
  • Still, they insist the government will not approve any plans for setting up refugee camps or sanction erecting any kind of structure specifically designed to accommodate refugee families on Lebanese soil no matter who designs it and who pays for it. (ynetnews.com)
  • They had been searching nearby refugee camps in Guinea for stories like the Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, which could "balance the Western media's focus on the region's violence with a sense of African society's beauty and resilience. (wikipedia.org)
  • [1] At the time, the band was preparing to embark on a tour of Guinean refugee camps with the help of the United Nations refugee agency. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thailand already hosts about 100,000 refugees from Myanmar at camps along the border. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Walking through the camps, we found large numbers of Rohingya refugees with disabilities," said Bill Frelick , refugee rights director at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)
  • Her 21-year-old daughter, Safia, was born in the camps, married another refugee and now has two children of her own. (voanews.com)
  • They are among the 350,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia, living at the Dadaab camps in northeastern Kenya whose lives may soon by uprooted by a government directive to close down the camps and repatriate refugees to Somalia. (voanews.com)
  • More than 100,000 refugees of ethnic Nepalese origin from southern Bhutan have been living in camps in southeast Nepal for a dozen years after they were arbitrarily stripped of their nationality and forced to flee Bhutan in the early 1990s. (hrw.org)
  • U.S. officials then conduct multiple in-person interviews [ while refugees remain in distant UN camps ] and verify a refugee's story with intelligence agencies and by running background checks through several government databases, including DHS and the National Counterterrorism Center. (counterpunch.org)
  • To our horror, futilely struggling to extricate and save themselves, were thousands of soon-to-be-suffocated Palestinian refugees, some of whom I recognized from today's refugee camps in Lebanon. (counterpunch.org)
  • WESTERN TANZANIA (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of refugees began crossing into Rwanda Saturday from camps inside Tanzania. (cnn.com)
  • But other Rwandan refugees left at least two other camps in western Tanzania and fled farther from the Rwandan border, aid workers said Saturday. (cnn.com)
  • As in Zaire, where refugees fled a Tutsi-led revolt last month and eventually began to return to Rwanda, Hutu hard-liners control the camps and have perpetuated the fears of retaliation. (cnn.com)
  • Both were allowed to set up way stations between the refugee camps and the Rwanda border. (cnn.com)
  • 3. Any population displacement introduces risks, but a mass influx of refugees always creates the immediate danger of major loss of life. (unhcr.org)
  • 4. The period of greatest risk for refugees is during the first days and weeks of a new influx. (unhcr.org)
  • The influx of refugees started last week after the Myanmar army bombed territory controlled by the KNU. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda said that security agencies had been instructed to deal with an influx of refugees from across the border. (bangkokpost.com)
  • The sudden influx of refugees causes a drain on city resources that then leads these refugees to move elsewhere and create a drain on new communities, as shown in these reports. (wnd.com)
  • Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented influx of refugees to Western Europe, the highest level since World War Two. (lu.se)
  • At the end of 2022, more than 12 million refugees from around the world were taking shelter on the continent. (state.gov)
  • It is the world's second-largest refugee camp. (nasa.gov)
  • The mandate of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees determines which of the world's "huddled masses" comes to the U.S. as humanitarian refugees. (wnd.com)
  • A major part of Palestinian refugee problems in Lebanon are caused by the fact that Lebanon's government refuses to grant them the internationally mandated rights required and enjoyed by all the world's refugees. (counterpunch.org)
  • Although EU countries, communities, and citizens have been very welcoming to Ukrainian refugees, it is not enough to treat them as short-term visitors, meet their immediate humanitarian needs, and let them wait out the war. (rand.org)
  • Refugees fleeing across the border from Myanmar will be allowed into Thailand on humanitarian grounds if the violence there escalates, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Tuesday. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Mr Don echoed the prime minister's view, saying that Thailand will help refugees from Myanmar temporarily on humanitarian grounds. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Despite efforts by the United Nations, humanitarian organizations, and the refugees themselves to build handrails, many walkways are impassable for people who have difficulty walking. (hrw.org)
  • New York) The announcement by the governments of Bhutan and Nepal that only a handful of Bhutanese refugees will be allowed to return to their country with full citizenship rights could render tens of thousands of refugees stateless, six international humanitarian and rights groups said today. (hrw.org)
  • Also, the $4.5 billion figure for humanitarian aid to refugees is a total for fiscal years 2012 through 2015. (factcheck.org)
  • Assembly requested the Director-General to identify best practices, experiences and lessons learned on the health of refugees and migrants in each region in order to contribute to the development of a draft global action plan for consideration by the Seventy-second World Health Assembly in 2019. (who.int)
  • They also face many common challenges and share similar vulnerabilities.7 Under the strategic options for action the Secretariat will focus on achieving universal health coverage for refugees, migrants and host populations within the context of WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019-2023. (who.int)
  • WND reported that "the refugee resettlement industry, which includes legions of immigrant rights advocates, lawyers and community organizing groups funded by George Soros, the Rockefeller and Ford foundations, among others, churned out a document in 2013 on how to deal with so-called 'pockets of resistance. (wnd.com)
  • Most of his tenants-who typically pay $750 a month for a three-bedroom unit-are referred by Us Together, a local affiliate of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, one of nine resettlement agencies that contract with the U.S. government to provide services to refugees. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to. (unhcr.org)
  • The Bhutanese refugee situation has become one of the most protracted and neglected refugee crises in the world. (hrw.org)
  • As a result of that extensive process, only around 2,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in the U.S. since its civil war broke out in 2011 - a much lower number than many previous refugee crises. (counterpunch.org)
  • With nearly 70 million individuals dislocated by war, famine, and environmental disaster, refugee crises have been, and will continue to be, a highly visible part of our global reality. (gale.com)
  • Webinar 8: Are refugee crises, crises? (lu.se)
  • In this way he will explore the polarities which different discourses of refugee crises expose - the complex and often paradoxical conditions of temporality, spatiality, scale, and dehistoricisation which they highlight. (lu.se)
  • The money goes toward supporting Afghan refugees in Colorado, because they are the ones doing all the sewing and handcrafting. (bing.com)
  • In October, the Pakistani government gave 1.7 million Afghan refugees living in the country until Nov. 1 to leave voluntarily or face arrest and forced deportation. (bing.com)
  • After months of minimal results in the hiring search, an opportunity was brought to Husco through Lutheran Social Services to help provide jobs for Afghan refugees who fled from the Taliban and relocated in Waukesha. (nam.org)
  • Over the past several months, Husco has hired and welcomed 33 Afghan refugees. (nam.org)
  • Two employees, Hamza Jebran and Baitullah Jan-Afghan refugees themselves who studied English-serve as translators for their new colleagues. (nam.org)
  • As much as Syrian refugees would like to return home eventually and as much as neighboring countries would welcome an end to the challenges of hosting large refugee communities, now is not the right time for mass Syrian refugee repatriation. (rand.org)
  • The country is kind of sliding backwards," says Ibrahim Hussein, a refugee seeking voluntary repatriation. (voanews.com)
  • This weekly recap focuses on supporting Ukrainian refugees, the future of U.S. and allied defense strategy, existential threats posed by artificial intelligence, and more. (rand.org)
  • The Minister for Housing has said that 89 buildings have been identified for accommodating Ukrainian refugees following a trawl of local authorities' vacant properties. (rte.ie)
  • Latest figures show that 25,173 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in Ireland. (rte.ie)
  • However, it is expected around 33,000 Ukrainian refugees will have arrived by the end of next month. (rte.ie)
  • Also speaking before the Cabinet meeting, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said that he met a number of Ukrainian refugees in Millstreet Arena, where many have been living since last week. (rte.ie)
  • At the end of March, the Government estimated that it would cost €2.5 billion to look after 100,000 Ukrainian refugees next year, with Mr McGrath saying: "The cost will be high but these are costs that we have to meet. (rte.ie)
  • The Government is keen to ensure that the work to assist Ukrainian refugees does not come at the expense of people who are on housing waiting lists or in emergency accommodation. (rte.ie)
  • Ukrainian Refugees With Cancer: Where Does the Burden Go? (medscape.com)
  • There was an article and some correspondence published recently in The Lancet Oncology about the burden of cancer in Ukrainian refugees and the pressure that is putting on the healthcare systems from those Eastern European countries that have been incredibly welcoming of those Ukrainian refugees pushed out by this extraordinary war pursued by Vladimir Putin. (medscape.com)
  • Joanna Didkowska and colleagues at the National Polish Cancer Registry have estimated - I think, fairly - that over the coming years, the prevalent burden of cancer from Ukrainian refugees will amount to between 50,000 and 55,000 individuals, with 3300 new cases coming to Poland every year. (medscape.com)
  • Refugee applicants are subject to the highest level of security checks of any type of traveler to the U.S. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees initially chooses which refugees to refer to the U.S. after doing its own check. (counterpunch.org)
  • The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees reported that 1.85 million people needed assistance. (brookings.edu)
  • There is frequently high mortality in the emergency phase as compared to the stable refugee situations and reference populations. (unhcr.org)
  • 6. The various forms of Protein-Energy-Malnutrition (PEM) remain the most common problems, but in recent years more and more micronutrient deficiency diseases have been reported among refugee populations entirely dependent on external food aid. (unhcr.org)
  • In the series Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement , Gale opens a window into the history of refugees and forced migration so that the thousands of scholars and students who will study-and possibly work with-refugee populations may look profitably to the primary source record of the past to help them navigate the present and the future. (gale.com)
  • When refugees arrive, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration pays a $900 placement grant to resettlement agencies. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Understanding the terms refugees, migration, and asylum begins with understanding a few basics. (bing.com)
  • Furthermore, many of those refugees classified as having voluntarily emigrated from Bhutan were in fact forced into signing "voluntary migration" certificates before they were expelled from the country. (hrw.org)
  • In the 14 years since September 11, 2001, the United States has resettled 784,000 refugees from around the world, according to data from the Migration Policy Institute , a D.C. think tank. (counterpunch.org)
  • Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II chronicles the plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950 through correspondence, reports, studies, organizational and administrative files, and much more. (gale.com)
  • The problem of forced migration tends to reach Brazil more and more, this study can contribute to the sophistication of the legislative and social structures to deal with the proper reception of refugees in Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • The 45 minutes lecture will be followed by a short discussant's response by Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies and Co-Director, UCL-Migration Research Unit, University College London, and then opened up to participants' questions and contributions. (lu.se)
  • In fiscal year 2018, RIS resettled 66 primary refugees and assisted more than 40 secondary migrants and 41 asylees in becoming self-sufficient new members of our community. (ccmaine.org)
  • Secondary Migrants residing in the U.S. longer than 8 months are ineligible for Federal Refugee Cash Assistance, but may still receive federally funded assistance up to 60 months, including MaineCare and Food Stamps, from the date of their U.S. arrival. (ccmaine.org)
  • In Portland, case management services are provided by the City of Portland Refugee Services Program to secondary migrants who have been in the U.S. for more than 30 days. (ccmaine.org)
  • Refugees and migrants education, especially minors, is a top priority, the best way to empower them and foster their integration, but also one of the principles on which the EU is funded. (ei-ie.org)
  • It is incredible, though, that education of migrants - especially forced migrants and refugees - seems to be. (ei-ie.org)
  • The framework should be a resource for Member States in meeting the health needs of refugees and migrants. (who.int)
  • Accordingly, from August 2017 to January 2018, the Secretariat conducted an online call for contributions on evidence-based information, country practices, experiences and lessons learned in meeting the health needs of refugees and migrants. (who.int)
  • : http://www.who.int/migrants/publications/situation-analysis-reports/en/ (accessed 21 November 2018). (who.int)
  • Though their treatment is governed by separate legal frameworks, refugees and migrants are entitled to the same universal human rights and fundamental freedoms. (who.int)
  • Dalia currently works on a comparative study of how refugees and migrants are portrayed in Danish and Swedish media. (lu.se)
  • On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Gloria Ihirwe Ntakirutinka, a young Rwandan refugee pursuing higher education in Senegal, shares her experience and her fight for access to higher education for refugees. (ei-ie.org)
  • One million Rwandan refugees fled to Zaire over a period of days in mid-1994, where some 50,000 refugee lives were lost in a few weeks, primarily to cholera. (unhcr.org)
  • 5. The major causes of morbidity and mortality among refugees are measles, diarrhoeal diseases, acute respiratory infections, malaria and malnutrition. (unhcr.org)
  • Nevertheless, the process of entrepreneurship among refugees in the host country context remains largely elusive as does the mechanisms of entrepreneurship as a method of integration, from both academic and policy perspectives. (lu.se)
  • In doing so, the project provides a new comprehensive, contextualized and empirically underpinned process understanding of entrepreneurship among refugees that enables a future coherent body of knowledge on this phenomenon. (lu.se)
  • Most U.S. data for this report were downloaded from the interactive processing tool of the U.S. State Department's Refugee Processing Center on Oct. 2, 2017. (pewresearch.org)
  • A documentary and literature reviews were carried out to map the legislation and documents of institutional bodies on refugees and the academic production on the thematic axes public policies, health and xenophobia in the period between 2007 and 2017. (bvsalud.org)
  • A primary refugee is a refugee who arrives directly from a country of asylum or house country (refugee camp) to Maine. (ccmaine.org)
  • Are you a refugee, asylum-seekers or stateless person in need of help? (unhcr.org)
  • UNHCR's Global Trends report presents key statistical trends and the latest official statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless persons. (unhcr.org)
  • Refugees should keep some important aspects of the asylum procedure and residence law in mind. (berlin.de)
  • The festival, now in its 66th year, had placed a special spotlight on the refugee issue, after Germany let in more than 1.1 million asylum seekers last year, with nearly 80,000 arriving in Berlin. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Individuals who have been persecuted (or fear they will be persecuted) on the basis of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group may be eligible for asylum or refugee status in the U.S. If you are seeking asylum for yourself or a loved one for the first time, this is the place to start. (findlaw.com)
  • This section includes articles that describe the basic rules surrounding asylum and refugee status, and answers common questions about asylum/refugee eligibility and claims. (findlaw.com)
  • When it comes to the study carried out in Sweden and Denmark Dalia's research focus on the way refugees were portrayed in media during fall 2015 when Sweden received tens of thousands of asylum seekers during a short period of time. (lu.se)
  • Afghanistan: How many refugees are there and where will they go? (bing.com)
  • Ihsanullah Patan, a horticulturist and refugee from Afghanistan, meets with a job counselor at the Minnesota Community and Technical College in Fergus Falls, Minn. (csmonitor.com)
  • A year ago, there was buzz in the Twin Cities about a projected HBO series that would center on the lives of Somali refugees in Minnesota. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Many Somali refugees resettled in Seattle by the organization have lost jobs recently. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Kenya blamed the attack on homegrown terrorists and pointed fingers at the Somali refugee population at Dadaab, located exactly halfway between between Garissa and the Somali border. (voanews.com)
  • A SOUTHAMPTON great grandmother who has crocheted dozens of blankets plans to donate them to child refugees fleeing Ukraine. (bing.com)
  • Refugees from Ukraine. (bonn.de)
  • According to the notifications of the EU Commission, the city of Bonn assumes that special regulations for the refugees from Ukraine will come into force soon. (bonn.de)
  • How do refugees from Ukraine obtain a residence permit after their visa-free entry? (bonn.de)
  • The shameful history of fearing refugees and turning them away from our shores has been conveniently forgotten by opportunists looking to score cheap points by alarming the public. (counterpunch.org)
  • She has taught English and math at the Newcomer Center at Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, Washington, for seven years, and her refugee students come from countries all over the world, including Syria, Mexico, and Sudan. (ei-ie.org)
  • Hysteria over the Islamic State is now focused on the refugees seeking to escape the violence in Syria and Iraq. (counterpunch.org)
  • Although much of the work that I've done in the past, thinking about refugees from cancer, has been in the Middle East, from Syria, Iraq, Erbil, and so on, isn't it extraordinary that we're having this discussion about what was once a stable European state and the necessity for us to provide as much truly emergency support as we can? (medscape.com)
  • These are the words of Mohammad Nesrini, researcher and refugee from Syria and one of the participants in ‟Post Conflict Futures" initiated by Lund University. (lu.se)
  • Jordan is a resource-poor country that has received the equivalent of 8 percent of its population as refugees from Syria in the last four years. (lu.se)
  • In the summer of 1942, Bandar Pahlavi, a sleepy Iranian port town on the Caspian Sea, became a city of refugees. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The beauty of City of Refugees is that it tackles all the bad things that happen to these people while also reveling in their dreams and growth. (beacon.org)
  • A gripping, fast-moving immersion into the lives of three bright new lights in a once fading town, City of Refugees is a meticulous and timely work of journalism. (beacon.org)
  • Susan Hartman's City of Refugees is storytelling at its very best. (beacon.org)
  • City of Refugees is a tender, intimate, and important book-a carefully reported rebuttal to the xenophobic narratives that define so much of modern American politics and a gripping portrait of what three different refugees have offered the city of Utica through their labors of love. (beacon.org)
  • Join UNHCR's global campaign Hope Away from Home calling for renewed solidarity and firm commitments from States to uphold the rights of refugees. (unhcr.org)
  • A secondary migrant is a person who entered the United States as a refugee and was resettled in one state, but then chose to move to another state. (ccmaine.org)
  • For example, a refugee who was resettled in Chicago, IL, but then chose to move to Portland, Maine, would be considered a secondary migrant when arriving in Maine. (ccmaine.org)
  • Both events made headlines, and when I talk to people about the refugee/migrant situation and refer to Calais, they often have embraced the impression that 'the problem' has been somehow solved. (thersa.org)
  • Several WHO regional offices have gained remarkable experience in addressing the challenges of refugee and migrant health. (who.int)
  • This indicator represents the response to the survey question 3.31g In relation to migrant and refugee children, please choose the type of health care free of charge that they are entitled to receive (Refugee children receive only preventitive services free of charge). (who.int)
  • Refugees legally enter the United States in search of freedom, peace, and opportunity for themselves and their families. (ccmaine.org)
  • His documentary film The Lost Requiem is a search for the traces of these refugees' lives, first in the gravestones carved with Polish orthography, then in interviews with Poles who still lived in Iran and elderly Iranians who still remember their arrival. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In the last 40 years, RIS has assisted nearly 10,000 people through its resettlement program and assisted over 20,000 with refugee and asylee support services. (ccmaine.org)
  • A Texas Republican congressman, Rep. Brian Babin, last Wednesday introduced the Resettlement Accountability National Security Act, H.R. 3314, which would immediately suspend Obama's disastrous and dangerous refugee resettlement program, pending a complete review of its federal, state and local costs. (wnd.com)
  • Obama has been importing hundreds of thousands of Muslims under the Refugee Resettlement Program. (wnd.com)
  • No results were found for Brazilian articles on refugees and xenophobia, the lack of broad public policies was an aspect diagnosed by the productions related to health and public policies. (bvsalud.org)
  • Since 1975, Catholic Charities Maine Refugee and Immigration Services has been the primary provider of resettlement services to refugees in Maine. (ccmaine.org)
  • Refugees in Maine have come from over 30 countries in: Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Former Soviet Republics, Middle East, Eastern Africa, South/Central America, Caribbean and Cuba. (ccmaine.org)
  • American liberals want to take in lots of Islamic refugees from the Middle East and Africa, presumably because that policy has been so successful in Europe. (powerlineblog.com)
  • An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 Syrian refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa currently have no access to formal education 10 . (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, two regional instruments, the OAU Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa and the 1984 Cartagena Declaration on Refugees , extend refugee rights to a broader class of people. (lu.se)
  • Since 2016, Tent has been an international resource connecting refugees with businesses hiring them. (state.gov)
  • Mortality rates that are truly catastrophic have been documented during large refugee emergencies (Annex 1). (unhcr.org)
  • In January, the U.S. launched the Welcome Corps, a new private sponsorship program that enables everyday American citizens to help refugees get settled around the country. (state.gov)
  • Vice President Schinas, thank you for your tireless efforts to support refugees - in Europe and around the world. (state.gov)
  • With the government providing none of the facilities and land that authorities in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have allocated for the refugees, many Syrians in Lebanon live in appalling conditions, finding shelter in slums, tents and tin shacks strung with laundry lines and wedged between farm lands outside towns and cities. (ynetnews.com)
  • There are more than 1.6 million registered Syrian refugees in Jordan and neighboring nations. (nasa.gov)
  • In one year, the refugee camp became the fourth largest population center in Jordan. (nasa.gov)
  • Syrian refugee Zahra Saad, who is nearly four months old, lies on the ground underneath a mosquito net at her family's tent in an informal settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Similarly, the economic strain produced by receiving refugees is more pronounced in Jordan compared to Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Not when the U.S. took in tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. (counterpunch.org)
  • Tens of thousands of refugees forced their way back into Benaco Friday after Tanzanian soldiers blocked their attempts to flee into the bush and escape a Tanzanian order to return to Rwanda by the end of the month. (cnn.com)
  • Comey responded that out of 2,000-plus "violent extremist investigations … about 300 of them are people who came to the United States as refugees. (powerlineblog.com)
  • Australia has been holding over 2,000 illegal refugees on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. (powerlineblog.com)
  • It's an astounding statistic for the tiny country and represents the highest number of refugees per capita of any country in the region. (ynetnews.com)
  • The purpose of this research project is to study the nuances of the characteristics, conditions and scope of entrepreneurship among recently arrived refugees in the context of Sweden and Austria, the two largest recipients of refugees per capita in OECD countries. (lu.se)
  • The word refugee is often used as a blanket term for people displaced by war, violence or persecution. (bing.com)
  • The recent human tragedies when 2 million refugees fled ethnic and political violence in Rwanda are a dreadful illustration. (unhcr.org)
  • New York) - Bangladesh 's overcrowded, hilly, and rain-soaked mega camp for ethnic Rohingya refugees is precarious for everyone, but especially for people with disabilities , Human Rights Watch said today in a new video. (hrw.org)
  • Catholic Charities Maine Refugee and Immigration Services resettles refugees of all races, religions, and ethnicities. (ccmaine.org)
  • Ministries that provide refugees with transition assistance during their first months in the U.S. expect them to achieve full self-sufficiency after 180 days, said Carol Fouke, information officer for the Elkhart, Indiana-based Church World Service 's (CWS) immigration and refugee program. (christianitytoday.com)
  • For instance, Secretary Nielsen directed US Citizenship and Immigration Services to conduct even more in-depth interviews of US refugee admissions programs applicants and family members from these countries, among other security measures," the official said. (cnn.com)
  • Internally displaced people, or IDPs, are often wrongly called refugees. (lu.se)
  • The refugees were Polish citizens who three years prior, with the outbreak of World War II, had fled into the Soviet Union and now, having journeyed nearly 5,000 miles, sailed from Soviet Turkmenistan to northern Iran. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • From the vantage point of the world we live in today-a world of turmoil in the Middle East and peace in Europe, a world of refugees fleeing the Middle East into Europe, a world in which Iran and Israel are locked in a seemingly eternal conflict-it is hard to imagine that another world existed. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In that world, refugees fled war-torn Europe into Iran, Turkey, and Mandatory Palestine, and they lived there in relative peace for the duration of the war. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In the early 1970s, Iranian film director Khosrow Sinai stumbled on the story of the Polish refugees in wartime Iran accidentally, while attending a memorial service at Doulab, Tehran's Catholic cemetery. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy of admitting into Germany hundreds of thousands of purported "refugees"-out of a misplaced sense of guilt, apparently-has been a disaster. (powerlineblog.com)
  • T he recession is putting a damper on thousands of refugees' dreams of being resettled in the United States by Christian organizations this year. (christianitytoday.com)
  • On any given day in Lebanon, hundreds, sometimes thousands, of refugees arrive in cars loaded with children and belongings. (ynetnews.com)
  • And, if Europe becomes a fortress and closes its borders, thousands of refugees will remain blocked in the Balkans, exasperating an already difficult situation. (ipsnews.net)
  • Obama has already imported hundreds of thousands of these "refugees," and many, many more are coming. (wnd.com)
  • A]n engaging, captivating book about the stories of three refugees and their families… Utica is unquestionably better off because of the thousands of refugees and their families that have resettled there, and as Hartman's book makes clear in their own words, so are they. (beacon.org)
  • At this summit, more than 40 companies will make new commitments to hire or train thousands of refugees around Europe over the next three years. (state.gov)
  • It is irrelevant that the Syrian refugees are the consequence of a conflict started by Europe (like Libya). (ipsnews.net)
  • Even if they have fled for similar reasons as refugees (armed conflict, generalized violence, human rights violations), IDPs legally remain under the protection of their own government - even though that government might be the cause of their flight. (lu.se)
  • Currently, more than 15 million refugees languish outside their country of origin. (ccmaine.org)
  • An estimated 6 million people are Syrian refugees who have sought refuge and protection across Europe from 2011 to the present day. (bing.com)
  • Officials say an estimated 1.2 million Syrians are now in Lebanon - including some 620,000 registered refugees. (ynetnews.com)
  • They have lost 250,000 people during the war, and they have now over 4 million refugees. (ipsnews.net)
  • We have now 60 million refugees. (ipsnews.net)
  • Unlike refugees, IDPs have not crossed an international border to find sanctuary but have remained inside their home countries. (lu.se)
  • The bill faces trouble in the Senate, however, and President Obama, who wants to admit 10,000 refugees over the next year, has threatened to veto it. (counterpunch.org)
  • Some 10,000 Tanzanian troops were deployed in the region, many sent into the forests to round up refugees who fled there beginning Thursday. (cnn.com)
  • And together, we're working toward the broader goal that President Biden set to resettle 125,000 refugees in the United States this year. (state.gov)
  • Kenya has repeatedly tried to reduce the refugee population in the country because of security concerns. (voanews.com)
  • Another group will go to Dunkirk to deliver aid to a population living rough: later in the day a couple of volunteers will go to Dunkirk to help serve food prepared by the Refugees Community Kitchen. (thersa.org)
  • Other Rust Belt cities-including Buffalo, Dayton, and Detroit-have also welcomed refugees, hoping to jump-start their economies and attract a younger population. (beacon.org)
  • Many of the displaced people are resisting being relocated to a refugee camp. (voanews.com)
  • Malawi's government has started to move the Mozambicans to a designated refugee camp in the neighboring district of Neno. (voanews.com)
  • Lapozo thinks those shunning the refugee camp don't want any form of confinement. (voanews.com)
  • Any move toward a camp situation is quite worrisome because it suggests a permanent situation for the refugees," he told The Associated Press. (ynetnews.com)
  • Uzbek refugees from Andijon at a refugee camp near Prague last year (RFE/RL) July 17, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Authorities in the Czech Republic have held two Uzbek refugees in detention for nearly two weeks at the request of the government in Tashkent. (rferl.org)
  • Among those who fled the country were musicians Reuben Koroma, his wife Grace, and Franco (Francis Langba), friends from the Freetown music scene who reconnected in the Kalia Refugee Camp in Guinea. (wikipedia.org)
  • [11] There they began making music before being transferred to the remote Sembakounya Refugee Camp, where Arahim (Abdul Rahim Kamara), Mohammed Bangura, and Alhadji Jeffrey Kamara ("Black Nature") joined the band. (wikipedia.org)
  • Work to shore up the hastily and haphazardly built huts and other camp structures has been hindered by the Bangladeshi government's insistence that the refugees are only staying temporarily and will soon return to Myanmar. (hrw.org)
  • When Bilado Hassan came to the Kenyan town of Dadaab in 1992, the future home of Africa's largest refugee camp was nothing more than an open expanse of dry, dusty land spotted with a few low-lying scrubby bushes. (voanews.com)
  • There are refugee-owned restaurants, butcheries, clothing stores, banks and phone shops all within the boundaries of the camp. (voanews.com)
  • About 140 kilometers north of Benaco Camp, there is another group of about 130,000 refugees heading towards the Uganda border. (cnn.com)
  • Kitali and Keza are about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Benaco camp, the largest refugee camp in northeastern Tanzania. (cnn.com)
  • The troops initially blocked the entrance to the Benaco camp Friday and allegedly beat refugees who tried to return. (cnn.com)
  • The refugees began a mass movement toward Rwanda Saturday, apparently after a meeting between the refugee camp leaders and Tanzanian officials. (cnn.com)
  • Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The need for concerted efforts at national and international levels to effectively integrate refugee children into education was highlighted at a seminar hosted by Education International. (ei-ie.org)
  • Teachers in Germany and Spain are facilitating the integration of refugee children through the classroom, and now have clear demands for policymakers. (ei-ie.org)
  • On the occasion of Word Children's Day, the Swiss education union, LCH (Dachverband Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Schweiz), has reminded the Swiss government of its duty to accept and protect refugee children and their families. (ei-ie.org)
  • Over 252,000 Syrian refugee children are of school-age, but only 30% are actually enrolled in school. (ei-ie.org)
  • There is a direct causal relationship between malnutrition and mortality in refugee sites, and this is most pronounced among children under five years of age. (unhcr.org)
  • However, it is likely that the number of children with no access to learning is considerably higher, as these figures only account for registered refugees 10 . (cdc.gov)
  • Refugee children only receive care for chronic conditions free of charge. (who.int)
  • Climate Refugees is a 2010 American documentary film, directed and produced by Michael P. Nash. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study also found the 180-day goal of employment is unrealistic for refugees in today's economic climate, who now have to rely on sponsors to pay rent. (christianitytoday.com)
  • climate refugees (they will grow exponentially, after 2020, since the coming conference of Paris will not solve climate warming). (ipsnews.net)
  • In addition to basics like a box frame and mattress, each refugee is entitled to receive a can opener, an alarm clock, and pen and paper, said Danielle Drake, a community outreach coordinator for Us Together. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Did President Obama cut benefits for veterans by $2.6 billion to give the money to Syrian refugees? (factcheck.org)
  • President Obama didn't "cut" veterans funding, as the headline claimed, and the temporary shortfall did not have to do with the administration's decision to increase aid for refugees. (factcheck.org)
  • That frustrates aid organizations who are desperately trying to manage the massive refugee presence across the country. (ynetnews.com)
  • Together, we're working with other governments and international organizations to reduce barriers to employment for refugees and to strengthen the global coalition to support them. (state.gov)
  • As Tent found in its studies, German companies that hired refugees saw rates of employee retention and productivity increase across their organizations. (state.gov)
  • Keith Raynor, who has rented apartments in Utica, New York, for the three decades, also prefers to sign leases with refugees. (chicagotribune.com)
  • It underlines the nation's deep seated fear of a repeat of the 1975-1990 war, for which many Lebanese at least partly blame Palestinian refugees. (ynetnews.com)
  • In Lebanon this past summer, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), conducted a socio-economic survey of 2,600 Palestinian refugee households. (counterpunch.org)
  • The data graphically illustrate the need for immediate Lebanese and global governmental and civil society advocacy and political pressure to encourage Lebanon's parliament to enact internationally mandated elementary human rights for Palestinian refugees. (counterpunch.org)
  • Nearly 67 per cent of Palestine refugees in Lebanon are poor and cannot meet their basic food and non-food needs. (counterpunch.org)
  • The policy is appropriately unpopular, even more so following the latest outrage, the rape and murder of a 14 year old girl by an Iraqi whose plea for refugee status was turned down. (powerlineblog.com)
  • We think it is a real scandal that Uzbeks who have proper refugee status in Germany are exposed to that kind of treatment [by Czech authorities]. (rferl.org)
  • Germany has granted both men refugee status. (rferl.org)
  • And what most folks don't know is, it's the Organization of Islamic Cooperation -driven United Nations that decides who gets refugee status. (wnd.com)
  • they would probably calculate they're more likely to get caught applying for refugee status than by accomplishing their objectives in some other way. (counterpunch.org)
  • CRS supports a bursary for refugee students and students without status in any field of study. (yorku.ca)
  • The draft plan will use the definition of "refugee"8 as contained in the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol thereto. (who.int)
  • Two principal conventions govern international refugee law: the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol to the Convention.The Convention defines refugee status and the legal obligations of signatory states and establishes the basic standards of treatment. (lu.se)