She takes her work for us extremely seriously and that means a lot to her and the staff. She's a terrific goodwill ambassador who can help people understand the difficult life of a refugee.
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The Loyal Refugee Volunteers were not members of the regular British Army. Their job was to cut wood for the British, who would pay them for it. To supplement that wood income, they raided into the Bergen County countryside to take horses and cattle, which they then would sell.
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
We were told at 1130 this morning that the militias and the TNI -- the armed forces -- were attacking the refugees. We have just received a third piece of information, from another refugee in that area, who's on the top of the mountains overlooking Dare.
That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.
Large-scale military operations in pursuit of Palestinian militants -- involving ground troops, attack helicopters, tanks and F-16s -- have taken place throughout civilian areas and refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, causing large-scale loss of life.
Every time someone who arrives illegally in Australia is granted refugee status, it means that a place is denied to someone often in more dire circumstances,
The terrorism-breeding culture of poverty and dependency in the refugee camps must be brought to an end. Palestinian refugees should be encouraged to leave the camps and trained to assume normal, productive lives.
Such chaos in Nigeria could lead to disruption of oil supply, secessionist moves by regional governments, major refugee flow and instability elsewhere in West Africa.
When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.
The world has closed its eyes to the humanitarian catastrophe in Azerbaijan, where every seventh citizen is a refugee.
After the outbreak of war, in April 1940, we left Geneva with our three children aged 4 years, 2 years and 2 weeks only to become part of the disordered refugee crowds fleeing across France from the German army.
These Tibetan refugee girls are both from India and from overseas. The beauty pageant will take place in the first week of October.
The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.
Baghdad would seem particularly vulnerable to such a wait-it-out strategy. It is not even close to being self-sufficient. If U. S. troops cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and communications, civilians would no doubt quickly begin fleeing to the safety of refugee camps set up outside the cordon. The U. S. military could wait for the white flag of surrender to flutter outside the range of most of Saddam's weapons. Armed with intelligence gleaned from fleeing refugees, the Americans could attack key targets inside the city with long-range weapons. Such a siege could help nurture one prized U. S. goal Saddam's falling at the hands of his own people. Baghdad is one of those classic cities that happen to contain all the kindling necessary to spark a revolt, ... You'd have the ruling elite and the army cheek by jowl with the people, who despise both the elite and the army.