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The global refugee crisis is one of the largest humanitarian issues our society is currently facing. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, there are approximately 65.6 million refugees forcibly displaced globally. More than half are under the age of 18. We live in a world where almost 20 people are forcibly displaced every minute as a […]
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The supreme court is allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees, agreeing to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the country before the end of October. The order on Tuesday was not the court’s last word on the travel policy […]
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he mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burma in just under three weeks is now triple the number of refugees who have tried to enter Europe across the Mediterranean so far this year, leaving aid agencies overwhelmed by the crisis. An estimated 370,000 have escaped from Burma’s northern Rakhine state to overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps since August […]
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Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, UNHCR calls for urgent action to address the root causes of the recent surge in violence, so that people are no longer compelled to flee and can eventually return home in safety and dignity. In the last two weeks […]
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I arrive at the nondescript office in San Jose where I am to meet Khaled Hosseini in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse. The Californian light has a strange quality, silvery and laden. When Hosseini opens the door, I barely get out a formal greeting before he interrupts. “Have you seen it?” he asks. He is […]
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President Donald Trump's childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the refugee crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in attendance. The three-story Tudor-style home in Queens that Trump's father, Fred, built in 1940 […]
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A group of Syrian refugees has responded to Hurricane Irma by cooking feasts for victims. Abeer and Nora al-Sheikh Bakri, two sisters, fled their homeland in 2012 and settled in Georgia four years later. After witnessing the destruction, they drove an hour to the Hamzah Islamic Centre in the city of Alpharetta, where they were told 39 […]
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The supreme court is allowing the Trump administration to maintain its restrictive policy on refugees, agreeing to block a lower court ruling that would have eased the ban and allowed up to 24,000 refugees to enter the country before the end of October. The order on Tuesday was not the court’s last word on the travel policy […]
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he mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burma in just under three weeks is now triple the number of refugees who have tried to enter Europe across the Mediterranean so far this year, leaving aid agencies overwhelmed by the crisis. An estimated 370,000 have escaped from Burma’s northern Rakhine state to overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps since August […]
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Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, UNHCR calls for urgent action to address the root causes of the recent surge in violence, so that people are no longer compelled to flee and can eventually return home in safety and dignity. In the last two weeks […]
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A group of Syrian refugees has responded to Hurricane Irma by cooking feasts for victims. Abeer and Nora al-Sheikh Bakri, two sisters, fled their homeland in 2012 and settled in Georgia four years later. After witnessing the destruction, they drove an hour to the Hamzah Islamic Centre in the city of Alpharetta, where they were told 39 […]
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Pope Francis has called on world leaders to do more to help refugees and migrants, in an attempt to put pressure on politicians to improve what he called the “lamentable” situation facing people fleeing conflict. His intervention came as the Vatican published a detailed policy document outlining how states should approach the refugee crisis. It calls for migrants […]
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Two teenage Syrian refugees are celebrating their A-level results as they take the next step to fulfill their dreams to become doctors “to give something back”. Sulaiman Wihba and Elias Badin were both given scholarships by Brighton College after they were spotted two years ago after making the “torturous” two-month journey from their war-torn country. Mr. Wihba, 19, from Hove, East Sussex, […]
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An asylum seeker being held at an Australian detention camp on Manus Island has been found dead, hanging from a tree. Hamed Shamshiripour, a 31-year-old Iranian national, was found near the East Lorengau refugee transit center on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island on Monday. The Australian immigration department said it was aware of the death […]
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On the way back from a field trip to Lancaster Central Market, the students make a stop where there’s a world map on display and look for their homes. They take turns pointing out Afghanistan, Congo and Central African Republic. “Eric, where are you from?” asks Dominique Cressler, who is helping to guide the students […]
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President Donald Trump's childhood home in New York had some new occupants over the weekend — refugees who shared their stories as a way to draw attention to the refugee crisis as the United Nations General Assembly convenes this week with Trump in attendance. The three-story Tudor-style home in Queens that Trump's father, Fred, built in 1940 […]
