The refugee program, or the refugee changes you're looking to make.
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Refugee groups relieved Refugee resettlement agencies across the US welcomed Robart's ruling.
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Generally, we think of the refugee crisis as a Syrian refugee crisis.
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It also temporarily suspends refugee resettlement and indefinitely suspends Syrian refugee resettlement.
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On average, a refugee will spend 18 years in a refugee camp.
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Uganda's refugee policy has been lauded by the World Bank, Oxford Refugee Studies Centre, the UN's refugee commission and othersas one of the most generous anywhere.
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Cases before Canada's Refugee Protection Division, where all refugee claims in the country are initially adjudicated, are private, said Immigration and Refugee Board spokeswoman Anna Pape.
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The complex houses many resettled refugee families, but Kinner is not a refugee.
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A Rohingya refugee at Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh on Jan. 21.
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"Child assault allegation involves accusation against a refugee by another refugee," it added.
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It also suspended refugee admittance for 120 days and Syrian refugee admittance indefinitely.
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The petition calls for education for refugee children and homes for refugee families.
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It also bans refugee admissions for 120 days and Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely.
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World Refugee Day was first celebrated in 2500 to mark the 22015th anniversary of the 21.4 Refugee Convention, when the refugee population was an estimated 12 million.
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The U.N. refugee agency has referred Qunun to Australia for consideration for refugee resettlement.
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It banned all refugee admissions for 120 days and all Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely.
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Syrian refugee children gather in a kindergarten classroom at a refugee camp in Lebanon.
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It banned all refugee admissions for 120 days, and all Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely.
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He was the editor of USCR's annual World Refugee Survey and monthly Refugee Reports.
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Ries is also incorrect in saying refugee advocates "profit" from the refugee resettlement process.
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It is the Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, not the Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Assistance.
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The refugee resettlement process is one such area; under the Refugee Act of 1980, the president determines a ceiling for refugee admissions each year in consultation with Congress.
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Related: Virtual Reality Journalism Puts You Inside the Refugee Crisis A 20' Inflatable Refugee Sails the Danish Coast The Children of Refugee Camps Explore Their Identities Through Photography
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The U.N. refugee agency does not yet consider Syria safe for refugee to return to.
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World Refugee Day is an international day of advocacy hosted by the UN Refugee Agency.
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One condition for claiming refugee status in the Refugee Act of 1980 is religious persecution.
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She will help the U.N.'s refugee agency raise global awareness about the refugee crisis.
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That includes 1,632 Afghans, according to the Refugee Admissions Program and the Refugee Processing Center.
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Refugee admissions from Syria would be ceased entirely until Trump has determined that necessary changes have been made to the refugee admissions program, known as the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
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And I think the I.R.C. has a distinctive story to tell about working from the war zone, to the refugee hosting state, to the refugee transit route, to refugee resettlement.
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U.N. refugee agency UNHCR says nearly 70,000 Syrian refugee children have been born in Lebanon alone.
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Last spring, the company approached Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS), a Columbus refugee- resettlement agency.
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They include La Fabrique Nomade (The Nomad Factory), which helps refugee artisans to find work, and the Refugee Food Festival, in which Parisian restaurants open up their kitchens to refugee chefs.
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However, important work for the cause began 50 years prior with the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, which defined what it means to be a refugee, established a set of basic human rights that every refugee should have, and recognized the scope of the global refugee crisis.
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Lloyd's predecessor, Robert Carey, however, led the Office of Refugee Resettlement during the Obama administration after spending decades working in refugee and migrant issues; his own predecessor was a refugee, Carey said.
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But refugee advocates have expressed concern that the executive order creates inconsistent refugee policies across the country, making it next to impossible for the federal government to properly plan for refugee settlement.
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The influx has strained Canada's refugee system, worsening backlogs in refugee tribunals and sending aid agencies scrambling.
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Cover image: A Rohingya refugee child at Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh on January 27, 2018.
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In return, the EU would have to accept another Syrian refugee directly from a Turkish refugee camp.
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International law conveys refugee status to children of other refugee populations until permanent homes can be found.
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World Refugee Day Tuesday was World Refugee Day, bringing attention to the estimated 22.5 million refugees worldwide.
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The U.N. refugee summit aims to forge a more humane international response to refugee and migrant crises.
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Wednesday is World Refugee Day, an international event designed to draw attention to the global refugee crisis.
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We spearheaded the drafting of the 1951 Refugee Convention and signed on to the 1967 Refugee Protocol.
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A Syrian refugee boy sits on a wheelchair at a refugee camp in Turkey on March 16, 2016.
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Founded in 2009, Refugee Family Literacy is a nonprofit organization that caters to refugee mothers with young children.
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Although a migrant can be a refugee, the term refugee is specifically used to note people fleeing persecution.
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Since learning about the refugee crisis, she said she no longer finds her classmate, a Syrian refugee, "annoying".
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The world's biggest refugee camp is under water Monsoon floods hit this massive Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.
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On Tuesday, Iyal, 34, was granted refugee status in Canada by an Immigration and Refugee Board in Winnipeg.
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In fact, our refugee program is the largest in the world, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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He did not come with a people smuggler, he came through the appropriate refugee, the normal refugee, programs.
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He promised not to repeat the 2015 European refugee crisis and to shut down refugee routes to Europe.
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Its priorities include enforcing international refugee law, supporting governments hosting refugees and guaranteeing refugee access to health care.
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Many of them have reasonable grounds for claiming refugee status in Canada, said Toronto refugee lawyer Raoul Boulakia.
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Public safety officials later corrected the information to say that he is a refugee, not a refugee applicant.
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The UN refugee agency UNHCR reported that nearly 70,000 Syrian refugee children have been born in Lebanon alone.
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This is an opinion piece by Mohsin Mohi Ud Din from refugee storytelling initiative #MeWeSyria and his experience at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, one of the largest refugee camps in the world.
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A refugee will carry the torch through a refugee camp in Athens — a symbolic gesture given Greece's role as both the birthplace of the Olympics and ground zero of the refugee crisis in Europe.
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On World Refugee Day, an annual event meant to shine a light on the growing global refugee crisis and the plight of the refugee, VICE News simply laid out the U.N.'s latest, unsparing statistics.
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The UN agencies most involved in refugee rights, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN Development Programme, agree that the term "climate refugee" should not be used to describe those displaced for environmental reasons.
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The Hungarian media is heavily restricted when reporting on the refugee crisis (TV stations were told not to broadcast images of refugee children) and surveys show that many Hungarians are unaware of pro-refugee arguments.
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She has contributed an essay to The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, which was published in April 2018.
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In addition to Syrian refugee children, Sesame Workshop hopes to reach non-refugee children in Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon.
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For decades now, the UNHCR and other refugee relief organizations have responded to refugee crises with ever-diminishing resources.
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Refugee crisis France is taking steps to stop people from making those treacherous refugee journeys across the Mediterranean Sea.
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Today is World Refugee Day, and the refugee crisis is worse than it's been in more than 70 years.
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She spent years in a refugee camp in Kenya and immigrated to the US as a refugee in 1995.
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And the first refugee foster child the couple parented ran away to Canada amid the anti-refugee political rhetoric.
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The U.N. refugee agency has also been excluded from a Rohingya refugee repatriation process organized by Bangladesh and Myanmar.
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The measure also halted general refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days and paused Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely.
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Refugee admission data is produced on a daily basis by the Refugee Processing Center, operated by the State Department.
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He is not the first, nor sadly the last Rohingyan refugee who has been trafficked from a refugee camp.
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The UNHCR refugee agency said efforts to fight the spread of coronavirus to refugee communities had started early on.
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The UNHCR refugee agency said efforts to fight the spread of coronavirus to refugee communities had started early on.
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In 2015 the Immigration and Refugee Board approved 57.7 percent of the 16,521 refugee claims made inside Canada's borders.
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Trump's tougher immigration policies have had a major impact on Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board, which determines refugee claims.
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President Donald Trump has severely scaled back the US refugee program, lowering the annual refugee admissions cap from 110,000 to 2100,2000 in just two years, and has all but halted refugee admissions from Syria in particular.
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Type the word refugees into Facebook and some alarming "news" will appear about a refugee rape crisis, a refugee flesh-eating disease epidemic and a refugee-related risk of female genital mutilation — none of it true.
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"Refugee families who come through Della Lamb refugee services have been vetted by the U.S. State Department," Akers told KCTV.
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Will Jameson helped Congolese musician and refugee Menes La Plume set up a sister festival at Malawi's Dzaleka refugee camp.
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A Rohingya Muslim refugee boy sits in a makeshift shelter at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district on Jan.
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Seeing that a refugee ship is involved, I can't help but think about the ongoing refugee situations around the world.
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The refugee ceiling of 45,000 set last year was the lowest since 1980, when the modern refugee program was established.
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Their only crime was to be a refugee and last I checked it wasn't a crime to be a refugee.
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"The Refugee Nation is a symbolic nation created to honor the 10 refugee athletes at the Olympic Games," Lipori said.
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So too is the Syrian refugee crisis for a country where one in four people is now a Syrian refugee.
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The refugee camp at Kilis, Turkey, was hailed as a model for refugee camps — organized, well-run, clean, and humane.
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This art project is a 20-foot inflatable refugee, hoping to focus the general public's attention on the refugee crisis.
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They lived in a Kenyan refugee camp before being granted US refugee status and moving to Boise eight years ago.
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In September 2015, they founded the Oxford Students Refugee Campaign (OxSRC) to fund scholarships for refugee and asylum-seeking students.
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Privately funded refugee resettlement is an easy way to bring new resources to the refugee program without new congressional appropriations.
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I am a refugee who, like many others, has never ceased being a refugee in some corner of my mind.
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This month, the Refugee Company opened a facility in a mothballed prison that the city had converted to refugee housing.
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It is filmed and narrated by Khaldiya, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee living in a refugee camp in Jordan.
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It violates the Refugee Act of 1980, which says that states and localities are to be consulted regarding refugee placement.
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The United Nations refugee agency in 2015 estimated protracted refugee situations by the end of 2014 to be 25 years.
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Refugee backers say they also fear that the Trump administration will limit Central American refugee admissions by setting tougher standards.
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Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota and a Somali refugee, is bringing a Liberian refugee who is threatened with deportation.
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Related: 3D Scanning the European Refugee Crisis How Artists Are Addressing the Syrian Refugee Crisis On Art-Making After Tragedy
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Related: Ai Weiwei on the Perils of Nuclear Power The Personal & Political Meet in an Exhibition on the Refugee Crisis How Design Could Change the Refugee Crisis How an Artist Used Recovered Sandals to Mourn the Refugee Crisis
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Refugee status is retained when a refugee commits a crime in the asylum country, but that person is subject to prosecution.
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Antigona Mehani, employment services manager at Kentucky Refugee Ministries, says she can usually find a refugee a job within three days.
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A refugee is not someone who commits acts of terrorism; a refugee is someone fleeing people who commit acts of terrorism.
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Immigration and Refugee Minister Ahmed Hussen said earlier this month the government has no plans to boost the refugee board's resources.
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Fugia, whose parents are Somalian, is a refugee growing up in Kakuma, the largest refugee camp in existence, located in Kenya.
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Now, however, all refugee entry in the United States has been suspended temporarily — and Syrian refugee resettlement has been suspended indefinitely.
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The refugee ceiling Trump set last year of 45,000 is the lowest since 1980, when the modern refugee program was established.
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Some stay behind to apply for refugee status and resettlement in a third country via the UNHCR, the UN's refugee agency.
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Kurz is also critical of European Union refugee quotas, favoring instead tougher external border security and off-site refugee detention centers.
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But, amid a global refugee crisis, it's no longer the world's top refugee admitter, losing that status to Canada last year.
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Yasuhiro Hishida, assistant to the director of Japan's Refugee Status Recognition Office, said officials suspected widespread abuse of the refugee process.
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India is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, which spells out refugee rights and state responsibilities to protect them.
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Refugee and resettlement groups were outraged at the reports that the administration was considering lowering refugee admissions even further next year.
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Because of that, many lawyers take issue with the term "climate refugee," since the designation of refugee doesn't cover environmental migration.
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International refugee policy — no chance for a joint vision Joint initiatives regarding international refugee policy do not look very promising either.
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Last year, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada accepted 50 percent of refugee claims made by Haitians, the agency said.
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Uganda has won plaudits for its liberal refugee policy that maintains open borders and allocates land plots to individual refugee families.
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For 2020, the administration set a ceiling of 18,000 refugee admissions, the lowest since the modern refugee program began in 1980.
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Historically, the only refugee population who passes on their refugee status from grandparent to grandchild and great-grandchild is the Palestinians.
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In a new report, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns that rising numbers of refugee children are not receiving an education.
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With the executive order, Trump suspended all refugee admissions to the US for 120 days and Syrian refugee admissions program indefinitely.
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Cover image: A Rohingya refugee child looks through the fence at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh March 22, 2018.
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Nicaraguans have made up the "vast majority" of refugee applications in Costa Rica over the past year and a half, Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado said at the Global Refugee Forum held by the UN Refugee Agency in Geneva.
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According to UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, the 1951 Refugee Convention is the "key legal document" that outlines the rights of refugees.
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She has subsequently been recognized as a refugee by the UN refugee agency, and Australia is currently assessing her claim for asylum.
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So we figured out that we needed a refugee artist to design the flag and a refugee composer to write the music.
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Also underlying Trump's attack on UNWRA is the false premise that other refugee populations don't transfer their refugee status to their children.
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But if calling me a climate-change refugee gets me a sea wall, then go ahead, call me a climate-change refugee.
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The restaurant is one of nine venues that offered to showcase a refugee chef for the first Refugee Food Festival in Paris.
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US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley meets South Sudanese refugee children at the Nguenyyiel refugee camp in Ethiopia on Tuesday.
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"It's really a refugee crisis," said Perrine Leclerc, the head of the field office for the United Nations refugee agency in Tapachula.
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The global refugee crisis is more pressing than ever, according to a report out last month from the United Nations Refugee Agency.
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Last week, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Afghanistan said it could not assist Gula as she was not a registered refugee.
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I met Walaa, a 15-year-old Syrian refugee and aspiring filmmaker, at the Azraq Refugee Camp in northern Jordan, near Syria.
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Trump set a ceiling of 18,000 refugee admissions for this year, the lowest level since the modern refugee program began in 1980.
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The United Nations 2269 Refugee Convention and 1967 protocol relating to the status of refugees are the precursors to the Refugee Act.
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" He then said he had "reduced refugee resettlement by 85 percent" and would "give local communities a greater say in refugee policy.
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After the 1951 Refugee Convention -- which defined the word refugee and established rights for displaced people -- HIAS became nondenominational in its efforts.
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The refugee resettlement agency World Relief closed its Jacksonville, Florida, office earlier this year as a result of last year's refugee cuts.
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There was a real transformation over the month of [August 2015, as the Syrian refugee crisis dominated global headlines] in the way the American Jewish community was engaging in refugee issues in general, and refugee issues regarding Syrians in particular.
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At the refugee camp in Thailand, the refugee workers tried to show us what life was like in America by screening American movies.
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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Tax-deductible gifts to UNHCR provide emergency supplies, as well as support and assistance to refugee families.
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I realize that I'm a refugee again in a country that I thought I wouldn't be a refugee [in], so it's so heartbreaking.
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The company Hero Norway runs 90 refugee centers in Norway and 10 in Sweden, charging governments $31 to $75 per refugee per night.
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Why it matters: The Azraq refugee camp became the first camp to use renewable solar energy, thanks for the U.N. Refugee Agency's help.
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Despite lacking refugee status, Syrian visitors are treated well in Saudi Arabia, said a spokesman for the UNHCR, the U.N.'s refugee agency.
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The success led to a bigger project: a nonprofit called One Refugee Child, which raises money to improve the lives of refugee children.
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Kyle Lydell Canty appeared in front of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board last week to ask for refugee status, according to CBC News.
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Refugee resettlement agencies report that there are far more volunteers than they have the ability to utilize because refugee admissions are so few.
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And this year, far from doubling opportunities for refugee resettlement, overall refugee resettlement numbers are expected to decline by as much as 60%.
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And I've become a refugee in the world's largest makeshift refugee camp, where my life is spent trying to survive, relying on aid.
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But, most importantly, I'll be going to Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, which is one of the largest refugee camps in the world.
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Some scholars argue it's politically dangerous to try to amend international refugee conventions because this is such an anti-refugee moment in history.
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When the Refugee Company put out a notice seeking skilled refugee tailors, Mr. Omar was one of 20 people to answer the call.
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This time last year, the Obama administration's response to the refugee crises led to a doubling of refugee admissions pledges by wealthy nations.
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"The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program coordinates refugee arrivals with its international humanitarian implementing partners, IOM and UNHCR," the spokesperson said in a statement.
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Inside the demolition of France's refugee "jungle" in Calais Inside the demolition of France's refugee "jungle" in Calais This segment originally aired Oct.
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Currently, the Office of Refugee Resettlement places refugees throughout the country with the help of national NGOs under the federal refugee resettlement program.
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The refugee crisis is worsening, with 285 seeing the highest levels of displacement on record according to the UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR.
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The order would purportedly suspend all refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days while the secretary of State reviews refugee application procedures.
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The United States can be proud of its wide network of refugee champions, for good reason: Refugee resettlement is an American success story.
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How the Mosul offensive could trigger a refugee crisis How the Mosul offensive could trigger a refugee crisis This segment originally aired Oct.
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"The government hates us," said refugee Zafar Alam, 55, sheltering from rain near a refugee settlement in Bangladesh, referring to the Myanmar government.
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Other Republican politicians also seized on Hardan's refugee status, as well as another Iraqi refugee who was arrested on Thursday in Sacramento, California, and who U.S. prosecutors publicly accused of supporting a foreign terrorist group, to renew opposition to Obama's refugee plan.
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CALGARY, Alberta — As leader of one of Canada's largest refugee agencies, Fariborz Birjandian, a refugee himself, has years of experience welcoming the world's most vulnerable — Kosovar Albanians fleeing ethnic cleansing, Burmese Karens evicted from Thai refugee camps and Syrians escaping the civil war.
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In May, the Kenyan government announced plans to close the Dabaab refugee settlement, the world's largest refugee camp, which could have additional security repercussions.
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"It has been fueled by the refugee influx, by the need of refugee families to earn a livelihood, by their economic misery," Hagemann said.
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The Obama administration's strategy was to expedite deportations of refugee children oftentimes without a lawyer, and jail refugee mothers with children as a deterrent.
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Refugee advocacy group Human Rights Watch described the death of the man on Nauru as "senseless" and a result of "Australia's inhumane refugee policies".
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Since then, the president has scaled back refugee admissions dramatically, lowering the refugee cap to 45,000 in 2018, down from 110,000 the previous year.
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The United Nations' refugee agency said Friday that as of this morning, more than 1,000 Syrian refugees had been transported to a refugee camp.
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The restrictions effectively halt the refugee resettlement program for 11 predominantly Muslim countries; the complaint calls for a nationwide injunction against the refugee ban.
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A multilateral UN treaty known as the 1951 Refugee Convention has established refugee rights including work, access to the courts, primary education and documentation.
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The actress, a Special Envoy for the U.N. Refugee Agency, declared that isolation is not the answer to solving the growing global refugee crisis.
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I think the refugee problem and the way that we treated the refugee problem last year was a positive element in our tourist business.
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On World Refugee Day, here are 10 social enterprises - businesses that seek to do good as well as turning a profit - with refugee connections.
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Syrian refugee and LGBTQ refugee activist Subhi Nahas, left, with Gwenn Craig, Bay Area LGBTQ activist and noted member of Harvey Milk's inner circle.
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There is a clear gap in opportunity for refugee and non-refugee children, and we must do everything in our power to close it.
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According to a Congressional Research Service report on refugee admissions, between fiscal 2007 and 85003 the refugee admission cap fluctuated from 70,000 to 110,000.
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She worked for one of the few pro-refugee organizations in town and for a while was the foster mother for a teenage refugee.
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"The administration is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist," said Nina Zelic, director for refugee services at Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services.
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The refugee crisis is near and dear to my heart because my dad was a refugee out of Hungary in 1956, going to England.
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In fact, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 bestows the status of refugee upon migrants who leave their home states due to persecution.
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But there are no official refugee camps run by the government or the UN refugee agency in Lebanon, where refugees are a sensitive subject.
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His lawyer, Albert Mokhiber, described him on Tuesday as a Palestinian refugee who had attended United Nations schools in the refugee camps of Lebanon.
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Mr. Trump's revised order places a 120-day freeze on all refugee admissions and slashes the overall refugee resettlement number to 50,000, from 110,000.
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President Trump eventually decided to lower the refugee cap to 45,000, the lowest levels since the Reagan administration, when the Refugee Act was passed.
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The tax revenue could then support the country's inundated refugee agency, said Florian Hopfner, who works for the United Nations refugee agency in Mexico.
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The refugee halt expired altogether Tuesday, as reports said Trump administration officials were set to replace that measure with stricter vetting of refugee applicants.
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Refugee advocates said the new order is objectionable, noting that refugee applicants were already carefully screened and that no American has been killed in a terrorist attack by a refugee in the current era of concern over foreign-sponsored terrorism dating to the Sept.
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Helic, a refugee of the Bosnia-Herzegovina war, co-authored an op-ed in The Times about the global refugee crisis with Jolie in 2015.
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America's refugee policy was thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump's executive order to halt all refugee admissions for four months and ban Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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"The UN refugee agency has started interviewing the Rohingya on the list," Mohammad Abul Kalam, the country's refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, said by telephone.
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UN refugee agency prepares, too The UN refugee agency said more than one million people could be fleeing Mosul once the military operation gets underway.
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The question is whether a formal assurance from a refugee-resettlement agency establishes a "bona fide relationship" between a potential refugee and an American entity.
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LS BROOKLYN Great article for Europeans to read to understand what it means to be a war refugee, in the context of our refugee crisis.
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The proposed refugee cuts represent a retreat from the United States' leadership in addressing refugee crises on the scale that the world is experiencing today.
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For one, halting refugee admissions in the U.S. shows other countries that, at best, we will not take a dominant role in the refugee crisis.
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Just as the Trump administration begins rolling out its immigration and refugee policies, the Department of Defense on Wednesday tweeted this: From refugee to #Marine.
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He added that the Trump administration's treatment of the refugee program — setting low refugee numbers and admitting a low percentage of that number — is unique.
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The Lanzarote project, which PBS News Hour reports is funded by the government, focuses on Europe's refugee crisis and includes several installations of refugee sculptures.
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In a letter to the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, the state's refugee coordinator wrote that if the state's plan is not approved by Sept.
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To be clear, refugee admissions are handled by the United Nations Refugee Agency and do not (for the most part) contribute to our immigration backlogs.
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The quintessential outsider—"Once you're a refugee, I guess you're always a refugee," Jhabvala said—she sometimes leaves the reader of these stories craving interiority.
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And the UN refugee agency should stop supporting involuntary refugee return and unequivocally publicly challenge any further efforts by Pakistan to force out Afghan refugees.
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For every refugee deported from Greece, an eligible Syrian waiting in a Turkish refugee camp would be allowed to seek asylum in the European Union.
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Illegal immigrants After a short period living in a Bangladeshi refugee camp, Rohingya refugee Nezamudden traveled overland to Delhi in 2013 in search of security.
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In 2015, refugee centers in the Netherlands were attacked and a council was successfully petitioned by concerned parents to escort schoolchildren past local refugee camps.
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"The minute a refugee has a job, that's the minute they stop being a refugee," Mr. Ulukaya said in a talk he gave this year.
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Since the U.S. State Department selects refugees from United Nation refugee lists, Christian exclusion from refugee camps effectively blocks their entry into the United States.
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Rarely has a majority of Americans supported the admission of refugees or asylees during a refugee crisis until the Syrian refugee crisis crested in 2202.
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Refugee education is among the issues on the agenda for this month's inaugural Global Refugee Forum, a two-day U.N. conference to showcase best practices.
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A U.N. refugee agency spokesman said it was not yet known whether the six travellers had been granted visas earlier under the U.S. refugee programme.
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The final decision on where to send her was up to the United Nations refugee agency, which granted her refugee status earlier in the week.
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This is the refugee screening process Trump wants to replace This is the refugee screening process Trump wants to replace This segment originally aired Jan.
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"All of us in refugee resettlement have been deeply concerned about this," said Chris George, executive director of New Haven-based Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services.
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Under rules agreed at the UN 1951 Refugee Convention, member states are banned from sending someone with refugee status back to the country they are fleeing.
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Before arriving in Canada thanks to donations through the Ripple Refugee Project, they were living at a refugee camp in Sudan after fleeing their home country.
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Check out a video of the Inflatable Refugee in Venice below: To learn more about the Inflatable Refugee project, head over to Schellekens & Peleman's website, here.
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Aun Pheap said the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) had granted him refugee status in January and that he left for the United States on March 25.
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If the person crosses that threshold, the UN then chooses which resettlement country a refugee will be assessed for entry for; the refugee does not choose.
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The USCCB's Migration and Refugee Services (MRS) oversees a highly effective refugee resettlement program, which receives funds from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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Refugee camps can be so dehumanizing that some people escape, forfeiting their refugee status, to risk a dangerous journey to a richer country to seek asylum.
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And, short of changing refugee laws, there is little Congress can do to push the administration to try to fill the yearly refugee cap, said Greenberg.
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The majority have fled into mountain caves, while others have reached refugee camps in Darfur and a few hundred have escaped to refugee camps in Rwanda.
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Past freezes on refugee resettlement occurred in 2017 when President Trump was reviewing the refugee vetting process, and in 2001 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Second, the Administration should set a refugee ceiling of 85033,000 or, at absolute minimum, maintain its current refugee ceiling of 45,000 for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Refugee resettlement in the United States is handled by nine non-profit agencies that receive funding from the federal government for some of their refugee work.
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Related: Virtual Reality Journalism Puts You Inside the Refugee Crisis Aerial Photographer Captures the Alien Beauty of Earth How Artists Are Addressing the Syrian Refugee Crisis
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Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Sharif made a refugee claim at a Canadian border crossing in 2012 and obtained refugee status later that year.
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In the West Bank, where the refugee population is smaller, refugee camps are already the source of much violence, both against other Palestinians and against Israelis.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Before he started taking photographs at a refugee camp in Lebanon, 37-year-old Omar Imam was a refugee himself.
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" Viet Thanh Nguyen, a contributing opinion writer, is the author, most recently, of "The Refugees," and the editor of "The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.
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The measure also halted general refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days and paused Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely due to that country's ongoing civil war.
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A new suit filed in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday by HIAS and the International Refugee Assistance Project zeroes in on the refugee issue.
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The Refugee Coalition of East Africa (RefCEA) - an alliance of LGBT+ refugee groups in the region - said that it did not support violence under any circumstances.
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Five years into Europe's refugee crisis, the multibillion-euro refugee deal with Turkey has broken down, leaving bankruptcy-plagued Greece to cope with the crisis alone.
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The State Department announced the proposed refugee ceiling as part of a larger number of combined refugee and asylum claims expected for the next fiscal year.
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After four years in (and out) of the refugee camp Master Song was granted official refugee status and was subsequently able to apply for a transfer.
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In fiscal year 24.1, the State Department spent about $21789 billion on Migration and Refugee Assistance, and it spent $50 million on Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance.
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And since 1980, when the Refugee Act came into being, no individual admitted as a refugee has been implicated in a fatal terror attack here at home.
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"I don't think we can look strictly at the refugee issue, I think the problem is a broader problem," he told the conference on Europe's refugee crisis.
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DADAAB REFUGEE COMPLEX, Kenya — Mohamed Omar Abdille remembers the night before he left his home in Merca, Somalia, in September 2012 to begin life as a refugee.
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The United Nations' refugee agency has partnered with Google to launch a new website aimed at answering the five most common questions about the Syrian refugee crisis.
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A Kurdish refugee girl from the Syrian town of Kobanî holds a toy in front of her tent at a refugee camp in Suruç, Turkey, on Nov.
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Others referenced the horrific photo of dead refugee toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose washed up body become the defining image of the Syrian refugee crisis in September 2015.
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"Your administration has focused on the Central American refugee situation with an emphasis on deterrence rather than the need for a regional refugee solution," the letter said.
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In fiscal year 2015, the State Department spent about $3 billion on Migration and Refugee Assistance, and it spent $50 million on Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance.
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The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) calls the exodus from El Salvador and other Central American nations - Honduras and Guatemala - plagued by gang violence a "refugee crisis".
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The civil rights office receives regular referrals from the refugee office on any complaint that might result from any process within Homeland Security, the refugee official said.
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US-based "refugee resettlement agencies" are responsible for settling refugees in the United States, and every refugee entering the US has already been placed with an agency.
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Reuters reported Tuesday the refugee ban will remain intact until the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security can improve and intensify the refugee vetting process.
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The U.N. refugee agency said the Rohingya arriving in Bangladesh were suffering "real hardship, and some of the most difficult conditions seen in any current refugee situation".
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Angelina Jolie Pitt made an appearance at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., on Monday, speaking out about the global refugee crisis on World Refugee Day.
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"Refugees Welcome❤️ is an effort to bring folks from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds around a table to break bread and break barriers," the site reads.
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Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)The first ever TEDx event in a refugee camp will be held at the Kakuma refugee camp in northwest Kenya on Saturday June 9.
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Filippo Grandi, the UN's refugee chief, notes proudly that the refugee co-ordinator who showed him around Illinois on a recent visit was an evacuee from Vietnam.
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A Syrian refugee family stands at the fence of oncupinar refugee camp near Kilis, Turkey, just a kilometre away from the border to Syria 10 February 2016.
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"The longer they've been away (from their country of origin), the more difficult it is to establish that they're a refugee," said Winnipeg refugee lawyer Ken Zaifman.
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Asserting that UNRWA, by granting descendants refugee status, is contributing to the maintenance of Palestinians' national and refugee consciousness ignores the pervasive conditions that underpin their circumstances.
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This year's World Refugee Day comes as the number of refugees across the world is at a record high, according to the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
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One year they went to Lebanon to bring attention to the Syrian refugee crises, one year to Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya to focus on girls' education.
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Even third-generation Palestinians born in Lebanon retain refugee status and live in refugee camps without a pathway to citizenship — almost 70 years after their ancestors arrived.
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With other refugees, she last year set up the Network for Refugee Voices, a coalition of 40 refugee organizations with the motto: "Nothing about us without us".
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Canada received its highest number of refugee claims in 2018 since record-keeping began three decades ago, according to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRBC).
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Quigley said that such proposals would violate the Refugee Act because it would amount to an end run around the asylum system created by the Refugee Act.
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The executive order also included a 303-day review of the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) that suspended the refugee resettlement program from July to October 2017.
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The State Department announced the proposed refugee ceiling Thursday as part of a larger number of combined refugee and asylum claims expected for the next fiscal year.
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Typically, this is where the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) would come in to steer the process, but Israel took over refugee status determination from UNHCR in 2009.
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Instead, there are several concurrent regional refugee crises, which countries and their neighbors are obligated to respond to: a Syrian refugee crisis that extends no further north than Turkey and a Rohingya refugee crisis that implicates only the Southeast Asian countries to which Rohingya are fleeing, for example.
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Meanwhile the U.N. refugee agency called on neighbouring countries to keep their borders open to people seeking asylum and said it was gearing up for possible refugee outflows.
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So we decided to create a department that would focus on promoting refugee protection and the importance of refugee protection among American Jews, whether they're affiliated or not.
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What's also been amazing is that all these congregations are calling, asking us how can they sponsor a refugee, how can they take a Syrian refugee family in.
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"It will be a joint exercise led by UNHCR," Abul Kalam, Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner, told Reuters by telephone on Monday, referring to the refugee agency.
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" Arash Bordbar, former refugee and chairperson, Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network "Refugees are too often forced to live precarious lives, not knowing what their future may look like.
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"It will be a joint exercise led by UNHCR," Abul Kalam, Bangladesh's Refugee Relief and Repatriation commissioner, told Reuters by telephone on Monday, referring to the refugee agency.
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More than 500,000 refugee children were newly enrolled in school last year, but the rapidly growing refugee population means the proportion missing out on education has not shrunk.
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The Partnership for Advancement of Refugee Rights -- University of Chicago The University of Chicago is home to the Partnership for Advancement of Refugee Rights and International Social Welfare.
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Yet this is precisely why it succeeds as a game about a refugee—explicit appeals to reality could only serve to cheapen the lived experience of refugee populations.
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Chris Christie declared that not even refugee "orphans under 5" should be admitted, and said New Jersey's would refuse to take part in the federal refugee resettlement program.
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Refugee Olympic Team For the first time in history, 10 refugee athletes competed in the Olympics Games, representing all of those around the world who have no nation.
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The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday that an Iranian refugee had caught another refugee in the act of sexually assaulting his 6-year-old daughter on Dec. 29.
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He then travels to the frontlines of the refugee crisis as he visits a refugee camp near the Syrian border and meets the makers of the "Jellyfish" bags.
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A refugee from Iran who faced persecution for his writings and cartoons criticizing religious conservatism, Adin had smuggled himself to England from a refugee camp in northern France.
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There he volunteered teaching English in Syrian refugee camps and later joined the UN to work for both the Syrian refugee response and the Iraqi displaced people response.
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"Refugee protection today is often under threat and cannot always be assured, but in this instance international refugee law and overriding values of humanity have prevailed," he said.
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But he called it "totally reasonable and rational" to pause the country's refugee program to improve vetting standards and weed out terrorists who may have infiltrated refugee populations.
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The report, issued by the United Nations refugee agency, also said refugee children are roughly five times more likely to be not in school than the global average.
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The US is currently on pace this year to admit the fewest number of refugees since the Refugee Act of 1980, which created the Federal Refugee Resettlement Program.
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To advocate for refugee rights Erin Vong, 26, of the San Francisco Bay Area attended a rally in Washington with her refugee mother to advocate for other refugees.
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Last year it joined a resettlement program sponsored by the United Nations refugee agency, and accepted 22 people from Myanmar who were living in refugee camps in Thailand.
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He called the country's refugee vetting process "woefully insufficient" and said it would be easy for someone to cover as a refugee in order to commit terrorist acts. .
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Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh (CNN)One woman and two children were killed in a stampede for unofficial handouts of clothing near a Rohingya refugee camp, aid agencies say.
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If I'm not standing up for these immigrants and refugees, as a former refugee myself—or you could always argue that you're always a refugee—then who will?
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Inspired by his own experiences as a refugee, he traveled to the region for Refinery29, speaking with Syrian refugee women and sharing their stories through Daughters of Paradise.
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The Nikaia refugee settlement, called Kokkinia, was established in 1923, and originally hosted more than 6,000 refugee families who were displaced following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919.
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"We are really devastated with the election results," Shamindan Kanapathi, 28, a Sri Lankan refugee on Manus, wrote in a text message to refugee advocates at the time.
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" Viet Thanh Nguyen, a contributing opinion writer, is the author of the novel "The Sympathizer" and the editor of the anthology "The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.
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Red Cross representatives asked the prime minister's office — which oversees the refugee program in partnership with the United Nations refugee agency — to run a check for their mother.
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They visited the notorious refugee camp known as the "Jungle" in Calais, France, and were struck by just how inaccurate media depictions of the refugee crisis had been.
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Judge Messitte concluded that the plaintiffs, Lutheran Immigrant and Refugee Service, Church World Service and the Jewish refugee resettlement group HIAS, were likely to succeed in their lawsuit.
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The administration could have simply tightened up the refugee review process and capped the refugee intake at 50,000, but instead went out of its way to insult Islam.
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"To learn with these Rwandan children can alleviate the stress of life that they can have," said Rwanda's minister for refugee affairs, Seraphine Mukantabana, herself a former refugee.
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Ben Ray Lujan (D-New Mexico) -- Awn Sian Mung, a former refugee from Myanmar and lead case manager at refugee support non-profit Lutheran Family Services Rocky MountainsRep.
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At a different center, Praestekaergaard, also operated by the Langeland municipality, as many as 12 refugee children may have been victims of sexual abuse by other refugee children.
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Najib is a keen athlete and participated in the Paralympic Education Development in Refugee Populations program while in Greece, which is supported by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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Later that same year, the country adopted the Temporary Protection Regulation that expanded refugee protections to mirror the full spirit of the 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol.
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The State Department pays each refugee agency $226 per person to cover administrative costs, with another $215,22013 going directly to the refugee or to cover expenses like rent.
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In response, the Mexican government sent 300 additional federal troops to the Guatemalan border and asked the United Nations refugee agency to help process migrants seeking refugee status.
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An Iraqi refugee camp is being flooded with civilians from Mosul An Iraqi refugee camp is being flooded with civilians from Mosul About 500 people have been arriving each day at the Debaga refugee camp in northern Iraq, with aid organizations bracing for an influx as the Mosul offensive proceeds.
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The U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Google on Monday launched Searching for Syria, an immersive website that gives audiences a visual and informative look into the Syrian refugee crisis.
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It was intended to allow those who feared returning to their country to remain in the U.S. in the spirit of the UN Refugee Agency's Refugee Protocol and Convention.
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This is especially true for refugee women, many of whom are running their households and raising their children alone as they wait in limbo to be granted refugee status.
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The executive order would also create inconsistent refugee policies across the country, making it next to impossible for the federal government to properly plan for refugee settlement, Schacher said.
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A popular television programme has cut actors' names from its credits, listing them instead simply as "grandson of a refugee from Russia" and "granddaughter of a refugee from Iraq".
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In its annual report for World Refugee Day, the UN Refugee Agency said it marks the first time there have been more than 60 million refugees around the world.
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It makes refugee camps unsafe, threatens the stability and security of refugee host countries like Lebanon and Jordan, and makes it difficult for refugees to emigrate to the West.
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The defendants were accused of planning the attacks in retaliation for a car accident in which two refugee children were killed inside Jewi Refugee Camp in Ethiopia's Gambella region.
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Having lost his father to civil war, he traveled thousands of miles and ended up in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest refugee camps in the world.
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Also, establishing an expanded version of Obama's Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program would make in-country processing of refugee applications available to adults as well as to children.
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But the stall in refugee resettlement worries refugee advocates, and strikes some lawmakers -- particularly Democrats -- as hypocritical given the recent US strikes against alleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria.
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And while the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR has a presence and processes asylum claims in Malaysia, the country is not a signatory to the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention.
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But Canadian refugee tribunals are wary of "asylum-shopping" and look askance at people coming from one of the world's richest countries to file claims, the refugee lawyers said.
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According to the CATO Institute, there is a 0.042 percent chance of a Syrian refugee entering the United States after spending at least three years in a refugee camp.
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It is important that those that speak out against religious persecution in China also advocate for increased refugee admissions goals and robust funding for the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.
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The revised measure also freezes all general refugee admissions into the U.S. for 120 days but no longer features preferential language for religious minorities once the refugee program resumes.
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Even Jordanian refugee camps near Syria, some of the most threatened communities in the world, have actual phone coverage, according to Graham Thom, Australia's refugee coordinator for Amnesty International.
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Immigration and Refugee Board data shows that while only a small number of border-crosser claims have been processed, acceptance rates are down for all groups seeking refugee status.
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The Syrian #MeWe team here are from Questscope NGO in Zaatari refugee camp, one of the largest refugee camps in the world where there is no grass, no trees.
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Johnson has been especially vocal on the refugee issue, telling CBS News in September that he believes the Islamic State is trying to infiltrate North America through refugee programs.
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Refugee resettlement organizations have criticized the move, arguing that allowing cities and states to block refugees from resettling there is un-American and will cripple the refugee resettlement program.
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A Rohingya refugee recalls her escape from Myanmar A Rohingya refugee recalls her escape from Myanmar COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh — "They beat me and slit my throat," said Rashida, 25.
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Refugee status granted: An 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled her family and flew to Thailand was granted refugee status today, clearing the way for an asylum request.
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Over the course of his refugee crisis world tour, Ai Weiwei himself appears in scenes, interviewing people in refugee camps, walking along the Mediterranean coastline, even getting a haircut.
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The policy shift derives instead from an activist fringe of American domestic politics, a small group of hard right ideologues who tell tales of refugee-terrorists and refugee-freeloaders.
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Canada's Immigration and Refugee Protection Act defines a safe third country as one that is a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention and the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
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"Migration and refugee issues have gone to the top of the EU foreign policy agenda," says Jeff Crisp, a research associate at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre.
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Refugee claims are taking longer to be completed than at any time in the past five years, according to previously unpublished Immigration and Refugee Board data provided to Reuters.
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" Refugee crisis: Full coverage The report was released on World Refugee Day, which is observed by the agency annually to commemorate "the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees.
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While those who remain trapped behind in Syria must confront chronic problems, refugee children also have to cope with "dire economic conditions and poverty facing refugee families," the report says.
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There will be legal challenges to the new rule, because America is party to the 1951 Refugee Convention and because the change may contravene America's own Refugee Act of 1980.
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A Syrian refugee family was scheduled to fly to Cleveland from a Turkish refugee camp on Tuesday, only to have their travel — and their plan to rebuild their lives — scrapped.
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So when the UN Refugee Agency proposed a visit to report from the refugee camps in Jordan, I jumped at it -- and decided to bring my teenage son Darius along.
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Elizabeth, a South Sudanese refugee, poses inside a refugee transition camp in Aru for South Sudanese people who have just arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, May 12.
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Four million refugee children around the world do not attend school, an increase of half a million from a year earlier, the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said in a report.
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Alarmed by FPO's surge in the polls on a wave of anti-refugee sentiment, the Austrian government reversed its pro-refugee policy, closing Austria's borders to refugees and asylum seekers.
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A 20-foot tall sculpture, Inflatable Refugee, is to set sail around the world as part of a nomadic art project aimed at drawing attention to the European refugee crisis.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru are investigating an alleged assault on a child refugee by another refugee, the government said on Thursday.
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The actress, 39, has partnered up with the San Fernando Valley Refugee Center to raise awareness about the refugee crisis in the U.S. and how children are affected by it.
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Their findings are unambiguous: Using these measures, we find that anti-refugee hate crimes increase disproportionally in areas with higher Facebook usage during periods of high anti-refugee sentiment online.
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Their latest project is working with the Minawao refugee camp on the north side of Cameroon, where they will be planting 40,000 trees in conjunction with the UN Refugee Agency.
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Given that one in 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced or seeking asylum, it looks like we may have many more Olympic refugee teams in the future.
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It bars people from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia from entering the U.S. for 90 days, suspends refugee resettlement for 120 days and Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely.
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Jolie, special envoy for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, said she was disappointed in some politicians for fear-mongering and a "race to the bottom" approach to the refugee crisis.
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"The brutality of violence in Central America is undeniable, and yet this administration has failed to provide a comprehensive refugee solution for those seeking international refugee protection," the letter states.
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Luma Mufleh: Forging a refugee family Luma Mufleh founded a soccer program and school called the Fugees Family that addresses the unique needs of the refugee community in Clarkston, Georgia.
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In early 85033, the Jordanian Syrian Refugee Assistance Directorate (SRAD), the intelligence agency managing the Syrian refugee crisis, restricted daily entrance to only a small number of refugees per day.
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Jahid Hussain, a Rohingya refugee at Chakmakul refugee camp in Bangladesh, said he had fled Myanmar to save his life and would not risk it by living on Bhasan Char.
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All four are US citizens, and three were born in the United States (Omar is a refugee from Somalia who spent part of her life in a Kenyan refugee camp).
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A more diverse refugee population, if one could be created, would be easier to resettle, easier to integrate, and would provide Syrian refugee resettlement a valuable political shield from critics.
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According to the United Nations report, Afghanistan's refugee population grew by five percent to 2.6 million people by the end of 2017, making Afghans the largest refugee population in Asia.
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In 2013, Turkey established the Directorate General for Migration Management to deal with migration flows, register asylum seekers for refugee status and supervise the humanitarian aspect of Syrian refugee settlement.
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The 120-day refugee ban officially expired in October but was replaced with a pause on refugee admissions for 11 countries — including Syria — while the US government reviewed vetting procedures.
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"What was once a leading light in the international refugee protection system is being transformed into a refugee deterrence system," said Michael Knowles, a spokesman for the National CIS Council.
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And according to a June report by Refugee Council USA, refugee resettlement agencies have had to suspend 51 programs in 41 offices across 23 states, including three offices in Texas.
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Zaatari Refugee Camp: A city in the desert Zaatari Refugee Camp in northern Jordan is home to almost 80,000 Syrian refugees, making it the fourth-largest city in the country.
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Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian refugee who has been detained on Manus Island since 2013, said that those granted refugee status would be kept separate from those who had not been.
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This World Refugee Day, it would be nice to break with U.S. refugee history, and ask not what they can do for us, but what we might do for them.
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The newly chosen Rhodes scholars include a Somali refugee, Ahmed Ahmed, who was born in a Kenya refugee camp and was admitted to the U.S. as a 1-year-old.
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"They started coming in like the tide," said Dudu Miah, a Rohingya refugee who is chairman of the management committee at the Leda refugee camp, near the border with Myanmar.
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In one post, Bowers wrote, "HIAS likes to bring in invaders that kill our people," referring to a Jewish refugee advocacy group that held a National Refugee Shabbat last weekend.
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The DHS's decision to suspend staff trips to conduct the interviews effectively pauses future refugee admissions amid speculation that President Trump may drastically change U.S. refugee policy, Reuters said Thursday.
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And I remember giving a certificate to a man, a refugee, who said, 'Can you believe I'm a refugee and the Secretary of State is handing me my naturalization certificate?
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Anila Noor, a Pakistani refugee in the Netherlands who campaigns for the rights of refugee women, said that for many, even the idea of going out to work was difficult.
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Sami spent six months living in a tent in a refugee camp on the island of Samos before moving to the mainland with support from the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.
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The UN refugee agency in Kuala Lumpur has registered 53,896 Rohingya refugees, but the number of undocumented Rohingya is nearly double those who are currently enrolled in UNHCR's refugee program.
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The posts at issue feature a photo Anas Modamani, a 19-year-old refugee from Damascus, took with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a Berlin refugee shelter in September 2015.
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" Citizens are encouraged to use the hashtag to show their support of refugees and to sign a petition asking governments to "ensure every refugee child gets an education, every refugee family has somewhere safe to live, and every refugee can work or learn new skills to make a positive contribution to their community.
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When a refugee first arrives in the country, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program provides money toward basic resettlement services — such as transportation and temporary housing — for up to three months, after which responsibility for newly arrived refugees is handed off to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
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Italy has become the front lines of Europe's refugee crisis Italy has become the front lines of Europe's refugee crisis The ongoing migrant and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean set two records this year: More than 174,000 people made the dangerous journey by boat to Italy, and 4,103 more died along the way.
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She is staying in a Bangkok hotel with her application for refugee status being processed by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) before she can seek asylum in a third country.
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More than 2,790 have applied for refugee status so far, and another 478 refugee-seekers have asked to be "voluntarily returned" to their countries of origin, according to Mexico's Interior Ministry.
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During Donald Trump's presidency, refugee resettlement in the U.S. dropped drastically, nixing the country's former ranking as the world's top country for refugee admissions, according to analysis by Pew Research Center.
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The tweet about how the Somali refugee suspected of the stabbing attack at Ohio State "should not have been in our country" dovetails with the Republican Party's harsh anti-refugee views.
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Altindere's multimedia "Space Refugee Project" (2016) was inspired by the story of the Soviet-trained Syrian cosmonaut Muhammed Ahmed Faris who has been living as a refugee in Istanbul since 2012.
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Refugee children are five times more likely to be out of school than non-refugee children -- and those who do manage to attend classes are far more likely to experience discrimination.
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The recent influx of Rohingya in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, where the Kutupalong and Nayapara refugee camps are located, has prompted plans to build the largest refugee camp in the world.
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But some refugee farmers have complained about water rationing introduced by the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) after it discovered they were irrigating their gardens with fresh water from their daily quota.
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So in the absence of an international system of refugee resettlement, states must make a conscientious attempt to work out what their fair contribution to solving the refugee problem amounts to.
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The U.S. and the international community should call this situation what it is: a refugee crisis, especially given the broader definition of "refugee" specified in the Declaration of Cartagena of 1984.
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Deposited by Germany's refugee office in Hoppegarten, a distant suburb of the capital best known for horseracing, Ahmed, a 21956-year-old Syrian refugee, cannot afford to commute to Berlin proper.
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One way that UNRWA worsens the Palestinian refugee problem is by granting the descendants of the original Palestinian refugees inherited refugee status in perpetuity, a practice unheard of in other conflicts.
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It would crack down on smuggling networks, expand refugee resettlement in Mexico and elsewhere, add immigration judges and help provide security, health and education for refugee children in the United States.
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About 21975,23 refugees are expected to have arrived in the year that ends September 23, according to two refugee advocacy groups' analyses of data from the State Department's Refugee Processing Center.
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In a statement, Jan Egeland the secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, said "coronavirus will decimate refugee communities if we don't act now" in countries like Greece, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
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Check out the bonus scene below, where we visit the Zaatari refugee camp and meet some of the people who are working inside what's become the biggest refugee camp in Jordan.
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Kenya may close the world's largest refugee camp over fear of terrorist activity Kenya may close the world's largest refugee camp over fear of terrorist activity This segment originally aired Feb.
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This Canadian CEO is housing and offering jobs to 58 Syrian refugee families This Canadian CEO is housing and offering jobs to 58 Syrian refugee families This segment originally aired Feb.
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At the same time, the United States should increase its funding to and engagement with the United Nations refugee agency to quickly expand Mexico's ability to process refugee and asylum claims.
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Helping refugees isn't just morally right — it's economically smart too — both for refugee hosting countries' economic productivity and also for the safety and economic security of refugee women and their families.
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Born in 1971, he is, by self-description, the son of Vietnamese refugees, and he has been a refugee himself; he has married a refugee, a fellow-writer named Lan Duong.
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ISIS has vowed to use refugee flows to infiltrate terrorists into Western nations, and has demonstrated the ability to provide them with the documentation they need to successfully obtain refugee status.
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"Refugee protection today is often under threat and cannot always be assured, but in this instance international refugee law and overriding values of humanity have prevailed," he said in a statement.
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Since approximately November, Bartlett has not been included on communications between the State Department and outside refugee agencies that he normally would have been, one person involved in refugee resettlement said.
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The principle of granting asylum was laid out by the United Nations in the 22018 Refugee Convention, and ratified permanently in the 235 Refugee Protocol (which the US signed in 215).
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These labels — refugee, immigrant — they do not define us.
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Headlines * Merkel's deputy breaks ranks over refugee policy on.ft.
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The refugee ban is cruel — & totally misses the point
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It focuses on marginalized, disadvantaged youth -- particularly refugee youth.
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In March, Jolie Pitt returned to Lebanon, where she reunited with teenage Syrian refugee Hala, who befriended her daughter Shiloh during a 2015 trip to the refugee camp in the Bekka Valley.
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Trump's latest executive order last Friday bans travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days, and bans refugee admissions for 120 days and Syrian refugee admissions indefinitely.
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It would require federal authorities to notify a state 21 days before settling a refugee there, during which the governor can request "adequate assurance" that the refugee is not a security threat.
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The United Nations refugee agency condemned the handing over of the 47 people, saying most of them had submitted asylum claims and their forced return was in violation of international refugee law.
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BANGKOK, Jan 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru are investigating an alleged assault on a child refugee by another refugee, the government said on Thursday.
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What to watch: Many refugee rights groups are advocating for an end to refugee camps, arguing that long-term refugees must be given the opportunity to learn and work in host nations.
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Granted refugee status by Germany, she swam at the Games last August as one of 10 athletes in the first-ever refugee Olympic team which she hopes will become a permanent fixture.
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Responding To The Refugee Crisis The world is experiencing the worst refugee crisis since World War II. The majority are women and children, and there are some 11 million child refugees alone.
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This suggested there was a very specific flaw in America's refugee screening process: Databases of fingerprints from Iraqi militants were not well-integrated into the broader State Department–run refugee admissions process.
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Nina Birkeland, senior adviser for disasters and climate change at the Norwegian Refugee Council, says that the process of renegotiating the existing refugee treaty or creating a new one could take decades.
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Heller said the decision to halt the overseas interviews would cause delays in refugee processing even if Trump decides to maintain the refugee program or re-start it after a temporary closure.
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People peer through the window of a bus as it departs for a smaller refugee camp in mainland Greece, at the refugee and migrant camp in Idomeni, Greece, Friday, March 25, 2016.
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The second refugee Olympic squad is a group of five South Sudanese distance runners who were all discovered in a refugee camp in northern Kenya by former Olympian and activist Tegla Loroupe.
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"There is a complex combination of factors that have contributed to the threats and restrictions on women in refugee camps, which we are all seeking to address," the UN refugee agency said.
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While she initially went to show support for a fitness client who worked on the short film Refugee, she felt "shattered" once she learned about the refugee crisis happening across five continents.
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The charity Save the Children says many Syrian refugee families marry off their daughters to provide them financial security or protect them from sexual violence perpetrated by other men in refugee camps.
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The repatriation plan is not for the Rohingya refugees to be returned to their homes: It is for them to be moved from refugee camps in Bangladesh to refugee camps in Myanmar.
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While she initially went to show support for a fitness client who worked on the short film Refugee, she felt "shattered" once she learned about the refugee crisis happening across five continents.
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In June, I visited the Kutupalong-Balukhali refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, known as the world's largest refugee camp, currently host to half a million people that fled the Myanmar's military persecution.
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Letter To the Editor: Bono (Op-Ed, April 12) makes the case that what's needed to address the biggest refugee crisis since World War II is a Marshall Plan for refugee protection.
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The freshman lawmaker, who came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia, said the issue is personal for her, having faced hunger during her time in refugee camps as a child.
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The proposals, if implemented, could significantly slow down refugee admissions and leave refugees who thought they were headed to the United States in perilous situations abroad, say refugee advocates and former officials.
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It would completely stop refugee processing of Syrians until "I have determined that sufficient changes have been made" to the refugee program to ensure "its alignment with national interest," the draft said.
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For the global discourse surrounding refugee youth, it is easier to stomach the crisis by only seeing a narrative of refugee youth depicting them as either fleeing, mourning, angry, or in-need.
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One of their upcoming players, 13-year-old Ravanelli Badere (named after the former Italian international), was found playing in the Dzaleka refugee camp, run by the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.
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Each twist in U.S. refugee policy has left Alireza, a gay Iranian refugee living in Turkey, confused, desperate for information, and less hopeful he will ever make it to the United States.
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I first had the idea to create a refugee dinner series last November, after seeing thousands of migrants crowded into the refugee camps, in government buildings or Berlin's closed down Tempelhof airport.
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So their arrests do raise some questions about US refugee screening (at least compared with calls to halt Syrian refugee acceptance in the US after the terrorist attacks in Paris in November).
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The immigration order from Trump bars immigrants from seven predominately Muslim countries for 90 days, halts all refugee resettlement in the United States for four months and bans Syrian refugee resettlement indefinitely.
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Some veterans and refugee advocates are worried that an executive order by President Trump to temporarily suspend refugee admissions into the U.S. will hurt foreign interpreters who helped American troops in war.
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Thereafter, the United Nations Refugee Agency conducted detailed and extensive interviews with these young people, revealing that nearly two-thirds of them had suffered harms and persecution that warranted international refugee protection.
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The executive order would have prevented nationals of six Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, and Libya — from entering the U.S. and stopped all refugee refugee resettlement for 120 days.
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"In the face of the largest global refugee crisis in recorded history, restricting refugee admissions to 50,000 would run contrary to America's proud tradition offering safe haven to those fleeing violence and persecution," Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, a refugee resettlement agency that works with refugees arriving in the US, said in a statement.
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"UNHCR expects all countries, including the United States, to make sure any person in need of refugee protection and humanitarian assistance is able to receive both promptly and without obstruction in accordance with the 1967 refugee Protocol to which the United States is a party," the agency said, referring to a protocol to the 1951 Refugee Convention.
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An Afghan refugee reportedly injured five people in an axe attack on a German train, a Syrian refugee's suicide bombing injured 85033 outside a German music festival, another Syrian refugee allegedly stabbed to death a woman and injured five, and a Tunisian refugee was blamed for killing 12 by plowing a truck into a German Christmas market.
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Given these increased efforts by terrorists to infiltrate the U.S. through refugee and immigrant flows, I proposed three amendments to the American SAFE Act to prevent terrorist infiltration of the Syrian and Iraqi refugee programs by screening refugee and immigrant visa applicants' social media accounts for pro-terrorist content or support to terrorist groups like ISIS.
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The festival, which sells tickets to the public, has asked the city's nonprofit refugee aid programs for volunteers "who would like to accompany a refugee to a screening," it said on its website.
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Read: Trump is quietly winning his war against refugees Refugee resettlement experts weren't nearly as generous in their appraisal of Trump's refugee resettlement efforts, and say the data paints a remarkably clear picture.
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President Trump just derailed the United States refugee resettlement program amid the greatest refugee crisis since World War II and just days after the United Nations called for greater assistance in Syria specifically.
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The 44-year-old actress wrote an essay titled "What We Owe Refugees" for TIME magazine in which she highlighted the difference between refugee and migrant — just one day before World Refugee Day.
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This suggested there was a very specific flaw in America's refugee screening process: Databases of fingerprints from Iraqi militants Iraq were not well-integrated into the broader State Department–run refugee admissions process.
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Dr. Evan Atar Adaha won the 2018 Nansen Refugee Award from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Switzerland on Monday — and Cate Blanchett, a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, was on hand to honor him.
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By contrast, the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle U.S. refugee protection programmes will stoke anti-refugee sentiment and exclusionary forms of nationalism in many countries and encourage other states to follow its example.
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That level of rigor is partly why not a single refugee has carried out a fatal terrorist attack in the United States since the current refugee program was put in place in 1980.
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Suspending refugee admissions: Sometime this week — likely Thursday or Friday — Trump is expected to sign an order suspending refugee admissions to the US for a certain period of time (possibly for four months).
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A refugee child is five times more likely to be out of school than a non-refugee child and the older the child, the less likely that he or she is in school.
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"They saved our lives late," says one refugee who described repeated rebel attacks on a refugee camp just a few minutes away from a large UN base whose peacekeepers did not venture out.
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January 2018 is on-track to be one of the lowest months of refugee arrivals in the history of the US' resettlement program, a direct result of the Muslim and refugee bans. #WhereRTheRefugees?
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Ultimately, the hopes for the refugee team are pretty simple: that the refugee crisis has been exacerbated by negative attitudes toward refugees, and having positive media depictions of them will change those attitudes.
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LONDON — United Nations refugee agency's special envoy Angelina Jolie-Pitt has made a compelling speech warning nations against a "fear of migration," which she says is causing the refugee system to break down.
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Opposition Labor Party leader Bill Shorten labeled Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's comments "xenophobic", while refugee advocates such as an Ian Rintoul, a spokesman for the high-profile Refugee Action Coalition, condemned the comments.
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Anxiety has risen since July, when a Syrian refugee blew himself up outside a concert in Bavaria, injuring 15 people, and an Afghan refugee hacked several passengers on a train with an axe.
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The most controversial has been Trump's executive order that temporarily bans citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from coming to the U.S., freezes the refugee program and indefinitely halts all Syrian refugee resettlement.
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The refugee crisis fed by years of war is now centered on Greece, where 57,000 people are unable to leave squalid refugee camps because of closed European borders and surging anti-immigrant sentiment.
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The United Nations' refugee agency, which has been pouring new staff and assistance into Greece, stopped just short of rejecting the deal and stressed that every refugee still must get an individual hearing.
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The order also suspends all refugee admissions into the United States for 120 days, as the secretary of state reviews refugee application procedures to ensure they guarantee no admitted refugees jeopardize national security.
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They helped smuggle 139 Jewish refugee children with them through Czechoslovakia and into southern Germany, where they helped set up a school run by the International Refugee Organization and the United States Army.
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The agency that made the mistake is only one of the agencies involved in the refugee screening process, though, so it's hard to know whether that's indicative of a problem with refugee screening.
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But after more than two years of consultations, the United Nations' refugee agency has instead offered only loose guidelines and a promise that there will be meetings whenever a "large" refugee movement occurs.
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" The head of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, said the ruling, for now, puts on hold a policy that was causing "irreparable harm to refugee families and resettlement agency's already.
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The Lincolnshire Refugee Doctor Project (LRDP) - which aims to help refugee doctors join Britain's National Health Service (NHS) through training, language courses and volunteer placements - welcomed its first cohort to Grimsby in October.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. refugee chief Filippo Grandi urged the European Union on Wednesday to sort out its "shameful" refugee policy after both Italy and Malta turned away a ship carrying hundreds of migrants.
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That spring, a bill to resettle 22017,0003 Jewish refugee children in the US quietly died — despite the fact that 2000,250 Americans had written letters to Congress offering to take in a refugee child.
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"Rock and Roll Refugee" is only partway to its destination.
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"It's like a refugee camp," at his office, Shawk said.
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I was 13 when I realized I was a refugee.
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" That's when it hit me: "Oh, so I'm a refugee.
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Until 2015, she would run through the refugee camp barefoot.
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It created the worst refugee crisis of the 21st century.
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Refugee Tales harnesses the power of storytelling to foster empathy.
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Two refugee women wait to receive milk for their children.
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If enacted, Trump's refugee ban would last for four months.
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It also paused refugee admissions and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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The eighth refugee had made it into Greece, it said.
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And no Syrian refugee has ever attacked the United States.
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"I want to show what a refugee is," he said.
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The International Refugee Assistance Project is arranging the family's travel.
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Last year the country got 362 refugee claims from Saudis.
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Guterres led the United Nations refugee agency for 10 years.
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The International Refugee Assistance Project also arranged the family's travel.
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He's also applied for refugee resettlement in the United States.
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The term refugee in itself is such a significant word.
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Now, members of the Refugee Olympic Team have that option.
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Watch our new video 'Searching for Refugee Housing in Berlin'
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The new order halts all refugee admissions for 120 days.
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Thirdly, their bill would cap the refugee program at 50,000.
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He's applying for refugee status through the UN in Ankara.
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When Trump took office, the refugee cap stood at 110,000.
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An Eritrean refugee sleeps at the camp behind Tiburtina station.
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But the label - "Romanian" and "refugee" - followed me to school.
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Refugee resettlement is not a free pass to another country.
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Civilians are transported to nearby refugee camps by the SDF.
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She has been raising money to educate Syrian refugee children.
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He wants upper limits on refugee numbers, she does not.
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Migrant and refugee arrivals have also dropped significantly in Europe.
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Refugee admissions to the United States have previously been suspended.
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Some 300,000 fled to squalid refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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What would Trump do about the refugee crisis in Syria?
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This isn't the first art exhibit highlighting the refugee crisis.
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A decision on her refugee status is expected within weeks.
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Truthfully, there's no way to make a refugee camp nice.
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A fresh increase in refugee numbers would do the same.
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The first important step, educating refugee children, is going well.
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He also suspended the US refugee program for 120 days.
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Flush with cash, the pair continued along the refugee route.
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Go deeper: Climate change is already deepening the refugee crisis
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Norah Bagirinka, a refugee originally from Rwanda, understands Pyakurel's experience.
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The issue of refugee minors is especially sensitive in Sweden.
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In reality, the refugee flows stopped for two other reasons.
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Put simply: There has never been a worse refugee crisis.
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It has already had a drastic impact on refugee admissions.
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Many remained, and have been living in squalid refugee camps.
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"Canada's Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau greeting Syrian refugee families," Farrow wrote.
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Go deeper: Read Axios' deep dive on the refugee crisis
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And it's a situation refugee officials are taking very seriously.
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That means the life of a refugee is extremely difficult.
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Refugee resettlement organizations are unsurprisingly disappointed in the administration's decision.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement is an agency of department.
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She's weighed in on deportation, education, climate, and refugee policy.
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There, he volunteered as a teacher in a refugee camp.
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Omar, a Somalian refugee, came under fire from some Democrats.
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I was in Liberia in refugee camps when Ebola hit.
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It would also suspend for 120 days the refugee program.
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The compound is next to a large Palestinian refugee camp.
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Syrian refugee Abdulkarim Al Kasem was interviewed through a translator.
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A refugee crisis now threatens Europe and the United States.
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Refugee children play in an old plane at the M?
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Many attend schools near refugee centres or in immigrant neighbourhoods.
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Malaysia is not a signatory to the U.N. Refugee Convention.
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Manitoba's Welcome Place refugee agency helped 216 claimants between Nov.
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Refugee activists say the administration could still be doing more.
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Why would the western world care about another Syrian refugee?
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The U.N. refugee agency said the deportations "deeply concerned" it.
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He rejected Trump's description of Merkel's refugee policy as "catastrophic".
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It's likely the political usefulness of the word "refugee" itself.
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Soon after, Gu says Dong received his U.N. refugee identification.
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She visited a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan on Sept.
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The United Nations has recognized World Refugee Day since 2001.
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A couple we met at a refugee shelter in Berlin.
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The Orlando attacker was the son of an Afghan refugee.
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Coming from a refugee migrant boat family, it was hard.
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Monsef was 11 when she immigrated here as a refugee.
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THE EARLY STAGES of Europe's refugee crisis produced heartwarming images.
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Next to Marie Claire, another local teen refugee is sobbing.
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We catch up with Moira at a Canadian refugee center.
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Of course I wish China would give them refugee status.
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"Italy is not the refugee camp of Europe," he said.
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Breedlove warned that Russia is "weaponizing" the Syrian refugee crisis.
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We also face a refugee crisis in our own hemisphere.
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As the refugee crisis worsened, countless more were refused entry.
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Your handling of the refugee crisis is a glaring example.
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Russian jets bombed a refugee camp in Syria, killing 12.
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Many have continued to live in refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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Jewish refugee from Soviet Moscow, and together we alternated between
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Immigration is important, but the dynamics predated the refugee crisis.
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Omar came to the United States as a Somali refugee.
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Many of us are familiar with the Syrian refugee crisis.
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THE Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh does not seem temporary.
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Backlash: Unsurprisingly, humanitarian groups panned the administration's new refugee cap.
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The refugee children, the parents said, might have contagious diseases.
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Refugee assistance has more than doubled, increasing by 108 percent.
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Omar is a refugee, a Muslim, and a young woman.
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In particular, I have been focusing on the refugee crisis.
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While the asylum process continues, Yolanda lives as a refugee.
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Recently, a Rohingyan refugee named Salim took his own life.
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His vote against the refugee bill drew scorn from Republicans.
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On World Refugee Day, I ask you to remember them.
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World Refugee Day takes place every year on June 20.
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World Refugee Day hopes to raise awareness about this crisis.
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"He's a refugee dog," he says in a singsong voice.
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So he subsists on the government's €300 monthly refugee stipend.
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Or do they just feel pity because I'm a refugee?
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Abdikadir Negeye / Somalia: I spent 53 years in refugee camps.
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The conflict displaced 600,000 Afghans, adding to the refugee crisis.
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The refugee cap is a ceiling, rather than a goal.
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A row of homes in the Azraq, Jordan refugee camp.
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Unicef was granted access to two of these refugee shelters.
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Turnbull said he arrived in Australia through a refugee program.
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Half of Syrian refugee families receive no aid at all.
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Everyone has been a refugee at one point or another.
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This would be additional to all other non- refugee immigration.
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Watch more about the refugee debate in the video above.
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Omar came to the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia.
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Bill Frelick is the refugee director at Human Rights Watch.
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She's also a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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It's an intentional effort to destroy the U.S. refugee program.
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The Minnesota man was the son of a Somali refugee.
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But she has no regrets about leaving the refugee camp.
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I'm working at a refugee camp, and we met there.
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" Merkel also said the refugee crisis "must never be repeated.
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I also assume the 50,000 refugee cap will be enforced.
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For Syrians in refugee camps, securing food poses different challenges.
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VICE: When did you first start photographing the refugee crisis?
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Forget the merits of the refugee ban for a second.
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The Rohingya now live in teeming refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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The bigger picture: Overall refugee admissions have plunged under Trump.
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Leo Ferdinand became, at the age of nine, a refugee.
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Yet today, the global refugee resettlement system is breaking down.
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Then an African refugee in Ottawa told him about Refunite.
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Now United Nations organizations and refugee groups work with Refunite.
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This might work if refugee arrivals were the root issue.
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How does this compare to other refugee situations you've covered?
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Most are now living in refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.
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This is one of the biggest problems with refugee admissions.
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They've been living in the Kutupalong refugee camp ever since.
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Above, Sesame Workshop at a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh.
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Robart ordered the federal government to process certain refugee applications.
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"It was in 2015, during the refugee crisis," she said.
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Last year they visited the refugee camps outside Mosul, Iraq.
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Mr. Dalhuisen is an expert on immigration and refugee policy.
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There's a reason refugee camps exist: Host governments like them.
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Merkel, for the government and for the country's refugee policy.
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Above, Syrian families at a U.N. refugee office in Beirut.
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But refugee populations are potential global hotbeds for rapid outbreaks.
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What distinguishes a refugee from a migrant from an exile?
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You cannot do social distancing in a crowded refugee camp.
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Mr. Tiberi, however, would be a particularly striking congressional refugee.
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" He accused critics of Turkey's refugee policy of "rampant hypocrisy.
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A refugee is a security threat or an economic liability.
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In March, a Somali refugee boat was attacked at sea.
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I found them above neem trees and above refugee camps.
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Jordan, too, has borne the brunt of the refugee crisis.
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It focuses on the perils faced by Dublin's refugee communities.
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The refugee is free to come; the parolee is not.
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Tita, the Eritrean refugee, attended the class that I observed.
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Muslim refugee admissions have fallen more than any other group.
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The family had lived in refugee camps for 12 years.
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I know he'll take care of the Syrian refugee problem.
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In the ensuing weeks, the community received two refugee families.
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"I have reduced refugee resettlement by 85 percent," he said.
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"North Dakota is a refugee state," Woodcox told CNN Monday.
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Any refugee or asylum program needs a solid vetting process.
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Texas has long been a leading state in refugee resettlement.
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Cevheri began researching Syrian refugee sites and found a smuggler.
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The church's other refugee family had prepared a Syrian meal.
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When Trump issued his refugee and travel ban on Jan.
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Today, the city's appeal for refugee placement is the same.
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I've followed Syrian refugee families into the tumultuous Aegean Sea.
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I immediately wondered, is there a refugee camp inside Israel?
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Sweden bristled over Mr. Trump's criticism of its refugee policy.
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A refugee is provided food at an aid station, Feb.
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First, it could seek to address the growing refugee emergency.
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Nationalist leaders have a thing for migrant and refugee crises.
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With Executive Order 9417, Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board.
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They are subjected to the prejudices of being a refugee.
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All were rejected at refugee hearings in the United States.
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Three synagogues in the area had also sponsored refugee families.
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Feature Life and death in East Jerusalem's Palestinian refugee camp.
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After that, he began his life as a Saudi refugee.
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All of them but one, a Syrian refugee, were shocked.
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What do you picture when you hear the word "refugee"?
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Iowans are ashamed when refugee children are caged like criminals.
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In October 2016, the Calais "Jungle" refugee camp was demolished.
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Go deeper: Axios' deep dive on the global refugee crisis
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A refugee family of eight from Darfur living in Jordan.
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A worldwide refugee crisis kept getting worse as Aleppo burned.
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It's not just the Syrian refugee crisis testing these commitments.
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More than 100,000 people are now living in refugee camps.
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The Guardian published "The List" to mark World Refugee Day.
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The global refugee population of Eritreans is in the 100,353s.
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Trump's order bars Syrian refugees indefinitely, suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days, halts immigration from seven majority Muslim countries for three months and gives priority to "religious minorities" when applying for refugee status.
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Administration officials cited the asylum backlog as one reason it was necessary to cut this year's refugee admissions cap to 45,000, the lowest level since the modern U.S. refugee program was established in 1980.
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Stories of Human Kind: Searching for Home is a joint effort from Save the Children, Johnson & Johnson and Facebook, focusing on the lives of refugee families at the Tempelhof refugee camp in Berlin, Germany.
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Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said the attackers had come from inside Syria, and not refugee camps hosting Syrian refugees who number more than 1 million in Lebanon, according to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.
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In order to prove you're a refugee or a domestic violence victim, you have to show some kind of documentation to the host: a refugee passport, a police report or a recent restraining order.
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"One organizes resistance among the conservatives to a humanitarian refugee policy while the other uses his propaganda network to mobilize hundreds of German-Russians to hold hostile demonstrations outside German refugee homes," he said.
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When the harrowing photo of 285-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi's lifeless body went viral in 28, it galvanized the world to start paying attention and talk about the refugee crisis with earnest.
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The vetting process for each individual refugee involves: The process starts with a series of interviews with the UNHCR, whose officials determine if the person is, in fact, a "refugee" under the UNHCR definition.
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Safiyo Noor Hassan, an 11-year-old Somali refugee living in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, doesn't have much in common with the 11-year-old American kids in Boulder, Colorado, she was writing to.
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Clean energy, according to the Moving Energy Initiative (MEI), a ground-breaking international consortium between Energy4Impact, Chatham House, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Practical Action, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and funded by UK Aid,.
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For instance, he could establish an expanded version of Barack Obama's Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program that would make in-country refugee processing available to adults as well as children in Central America.
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The Mexican government said Thursday it would seek help from the United Nations refugee agency in coordinating efforts with other Central American governments to manage immigrants arriving to Mexico's southern border seeking refugee status.
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Refugee advocates told Politico that such a change would mark a major blow to groups helping resettle refugees and throw off thousands of people who are in the middle of the refugee application process.
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First, with President Donald Trump predisposed to drastically reduce refugee resettlement numbers, Secretary Pompeo will need to decide whether to try to hold the line on further deep cuts in the refugee admissions ceiling.
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Time after time, the engine that has powered the U.S. leadership drive to mobilize international solidarity has been the State Department's refugee bureau, whose two major functions are managing humanitarian assistance and refugee resettlement.
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At a funeral that was being held near her tent in the refugee camp one night, she met another refugee who said he'd seen a woman who looked like her and had similar scars.
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Trump removed a ban on most refugee admissions in late October, but implemented tougher rules for vetting applicants and effectively halted refugee admissions from 11 countries, nine of which have a majority-Muslim population.
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The Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance fund, which is meant to help in refugee crises like the one facing Syria right now (and not just by having the US take refugees, either), is eliminated.
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It indefinitely ends the refugee program resettling Syrian refugees, suspends a broader refugee resettlement program and temporarily suspends the entry of people from seven mostly Muslim nations: Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
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If the definition of a Palestinian refugee changes, the small number of remaining refugees could be served by the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Palestinians in need could be served by the Palestinian Authority.
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Washington (CNN)The United States is putting a temporary pause on refugee admissions in light of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two sources familiar with a Trump administration call to refugee organizations Wednesday morning.
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Both have been granted refugee status by the United Nations, but were forced to move out of a shelter for refugee minors in Jakarta, run by an international aid organization, when they turned 18.
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Mr. Trump's order also sought to put an indefinite freeze on Syrian refugee admissions and temporarily suspend the rest of the refugee program until the screening process could be reviewed and made more restrictive.
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"A lot of people don't understand the journey of a refugee," said Mayen, 25, who and spent his first 22 years in a refugee camp in northern Uganda before moving to the United States.
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The coming year's 2000,24-person cap will be the lowest since the refugee resettlement program began in 2000, a major shift from the 21,2500 refugee admissions President Barack Obama proposed for fiscal year 5003.
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"In other words, the government enters into an agreement to provide the refugee with certain services once the refugee arrives, in order to ensure a smooth transition into the United States," the government argued.
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But immigrant advocates have countered that the rule violates longstanding principles in the Refugee Act of 1980, in which the US codified its international human rights obligations as a party to the Refugee Convention.
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Allocating refugee slots specifically for the Northern Triangle will also encourage migrants to apply for refugee status rather than making the perilous journey north to claim asylum at the US southern border, they said.
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Representative Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota, a Somali refugee, brought Linda Clark, a Liberian refugee who could be deported after two decades in the U.S. because the Trump administration ended the program she came under.
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Those officials turned her case over to the United Nations Refugee Agency, which will take up to 10 days to process her request for refugee status and find a country that will accept her.
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When news of the Cambodian genocide hits, a Czechoslovakian refugee named Franka (Emily Mortimer) reaches out to the Lutheran Refugee Service in hopes of welcoming a family like hers to her new life in Fargo.
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"The number of circuit rides has gone down drastically with currently only a few planned," said Hans Van de Weerd, chair of Refugee Council USA, a coalition of non-governmental groups working on refugee issues.
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"We are happy to inform that the new refugee proclamation has been enacted by the House of Peoples' Representatives of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia," Ethiopia's Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) said.
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"As some Western countries have adopted xenophobic policies while turning away refugees, we are pleased that Ethiopia has passed this revised refugee law," said Stine Paus, Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Ethiopia.
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Payne's visit has also thrown a spotlight on another refugee case, involving Bahrain footballer Hakeem AlAraibi, who has refugee status in Australia but was arrested at Bangkok airport last year after arriving for his honeymoon.
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"The current climate is such that the political will to really, in a meaningful way, tackle the refugee crisis is next to none," says Charlotte Phillips, advisor on refugee and migrants' rights at Amnesty International.
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Turnbull this month rejected the refugee resettlement offer from his New Zealand counterpart, Jacinda Ardern, preferring instead to work through an existing refugee swap deal he negotiated with former U.S. President Barack Obama last year.
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The body of 11-month-old Rohingya refugee Abdul Aziz is brought back to the family shelter at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, a few hours after he died on Dec. 4.
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A Syrian refugee earned a spot as a cocktail specialist at Belgium's Pukkelpop music festival, where the likes of Rihanna and the Foo Fighters have performed, thanks to his work at the Refugee Food Festival.
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After visiting a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey earlier this month, LiLo evidently become educated on the horrific needs of the marginalized Syrian refugee community there, and has come up with a self-styled solution.
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Multiple sources, including an official in the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) with direct knowledge of the situation, say Trump plans to cap refugee admissions for the 2018 fiscal year at no more than 50,000.
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Story at a glance An internal manual acquired by the International Refugee Assistance Project and shared with ProPublica shows that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is using Google Translate to vet refugee applications.
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There is a real risk, then, of repeated mass unlawful forced refugee returns and a repeat of last year's failure by the UN refugee agency to do its fundamental duty to defend refugees against it.
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Here's a reasonable forecast of what monthly admissions might look like: This would, of course, be an incredibly low amount of refugee admissions, near the slowest pace since the current refugee program began in 1980.
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About 17,000 Rohingya refugees and asylum seekers are registered with U.N. refugee agency UNHCR in India and many, like Raheema, use the UNHCR's letter acknowledging their application for a refugee card as proof of identity.
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I got an email from a woman close to my age who wrote to me from her refugee camp to ask how she should tell her boyfriend, also a refugee, about her own spanking fetish.
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Multiple sources, including an official in the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) with direct knowledge of the situation, say Trump plans to cap refugee admissions for the 2018 fiscal year at no more than 50,000.
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Last September Mr. Trump set the annual cap for refugee admissions at 45,000, less than half of the amount that President Obama accepted and the lowest by any president since the Refugee Act of 1980.
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The global refugee halt is not addressed in Trump's new proclamation, but officials said he is preparing within days to set a cap on refugee admissions for the next fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1
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In 1980, with the passage of the Refugee Act, Congress established the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to support refugees and individuals granted asylum in the United States and help them integrate into American society.
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" Bob Oehrig, executive director of Arrive Ministries, one of Minnesota's refugee resettlement agencies, told the newspaper he was somewhat mystified by the vote, saying Beltrami is "not a county that's really had any refugee resettlement.
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S. border in the past 15 months to file refugee claims.
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" Then, he adorably asks everyone to cheer with him, "Team Refugee!
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Aggravating the refugee crisis is the second danger according to Soros.
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Some are convinced that the refugee camp houses radical Syrian insurgents.
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And in the space of three months, I obtained refugee status.
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All of the employees are residents in the Venice's refugee centers.
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The threat Germany faces did not begin with the refugee flow.
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In Lebanon, an estimated one in four residents is a refugee.
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People seeking refugee status have been pouring over the Canada-U.
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Ask them to support refugee resettlement for those fleeing their homes.
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And secondly, the refugee crisis, there we have half the numbers.
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Frankly, the refugee ceiling will not get increased without such pressure.
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The US has the largest refugee resettlement program in the world.
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One refugee said a previously scheduled interview had since been postponed.
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It also temporarliy halted refugee admissions and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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It also temporarily halted refugee admissions and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.
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It also bans all refugee admissions for the next 120 days.
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The application asks for a reason someone is seeking refugee status.
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I'm glad that he's come down on the refugee immigration stance.
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You had the refugee crisis, which went together with the nativism.
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"I wanted to help people during the refugee crisis," he says.
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But they argue concentration camps should be distinguished from refugee camps.
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Refugee admissions have plummeted, while rejections of asylum applications have increased.
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Indiana is a part of the national Refugee Social Services Program.
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Habibo knows the signal is often spotty in the refugee camp.
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From there, he asked for a refugee status in South Korea.
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"I'm here because I'm a refugee," he said on Saturday night, .
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Lore Rasmussen was a Jewish refugee who escaped from Nazi Germany.
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Some 700,000 Rohingyas have fled to makeshift refugee camps in Bangladesh.
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But it couldn't be more different from the refugee program's purpose.
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Once in Canada they have a right to file refugee claims.
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This is the first time U.S. refugee admissions had been suspended.
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One of its main aims is to prevent another refugee influx.
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Second thoughts spread long before the recent currency and refugee crises.
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Soon he would enroll in primary school at Hagadera refugee camp.
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Agency officials do not believe the closures will affect refugee processing.
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In December the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council was expelled.
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It now grazes lows not seen since before the refugee crisis.
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We went to a refugee camp on the Thailand/Burma border.
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This process includes measures to verify the nationality of refugee applicants.
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They were recently taken to a refugee reception center in Nairobi.
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We have a worker here who is a refugee from Syria.
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The far more likely location was a refugee camp in Siberia.
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Bulgaria introduced tougher jail terms last year to deter refugee smugglers.
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For Yang, the refugee ban is a question of basic morality.
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Go deeper: Border fences and refugee bans: Hungary did it — fast.
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One synagogue worshipper describes her as a "refugee from anti-Semitism".
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Why would we punish our brothers and sisters in refugee camps?
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I was born and lived five years in a refugee camp.
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He's been seeking asylum there as a political refugee since 1987.
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Even if I was seeking refuge, I was not a refugee.
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As an immigrant or refugee, there is no end to trauma.
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We will come together again for National Refugee Shabbat in 2020.
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But leaders have sometimes accepted the cost of protecting refugee lives.
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Go deeper: Europe's biggest refugee camp overflows as migration surges again
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They will donate all proceeds to the International Refugee Assistance Program.
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Olango came to the United States in 1991 as a refugee.
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The second shock was the Syrian refugee crisis of 24.5-220.
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Most of the organizations that do refugee resettlement are religious organizations.
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If Merkel's refugee gambit implodes, the reverberations will be felt everywhere.
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Only 0003 percent of refugee children have access to a classroom.
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It also illustrates two of the Refugee Admissions Programme's traditional strengths.
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Girmay arrived in Sweden when the refugee crisis was convulsing Europe.
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"I learned so much after I became a refugee," Girmay said.
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I just returned from Berlin, where I met with refugee families.
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It also called for suspending all refugee admissions for 120 days.
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"Rabbi said, 'We are united,'" said Anvari, a refugee from Iran.
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Why, then, does he think the refugee camps are so full?
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Very soon, refugee flows decreased to the point of ceasing completely.
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He has started learning Turkish and hopes to gain refugee status.
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But he was dead; one more dead Syrian refugee among thousands.
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" Trump turns to Rohingya refugee and asks "Where is that exactly?
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She asked each refugee what one thing they couldn't live without.
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But all those who apply for refugee status deserve a hearing.
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George and Amal Clooney are committed to aiding Syria's refugee children.
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Life in a refugee camp was different from what I'd expected.
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Bill Frelick is the refugee rights director at Human Rights Watch.
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Rosario Dawson is helping shine a light on child refugee stories.
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Mansour is not the only refugee detained in a Turkish airport.
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One in every 113 people in the world is a refugee.
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Other charges include bribery, logistics fraud and trafficking of refugee girls.
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And as America dithers, the global refugee crisis only gets worse.
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"We are building the world's first green refugee camp," Jongejan says.
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A Syrian boy, himself a refugee, then recounts his own story.
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How Trump is using a refugee agency to jail immigrant kids
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City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp.
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My mum was a refugee because of the coup in 1973.
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This has been his response to the refugee crisis in Europe.
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Israel contends UNRWA perpetuates the refugee problem rather than resolving it.
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When he arrived in Germany, he was put in refugee camps.
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It halts all refugee admissions to the U.S. for four months.
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It's that for many people, "refugee" has become a semipermanent status.
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Refugee crises like the Mariel boatlift of 1980 prove as much.
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Your first film, Human Flow, was also about the refugee crisis.
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Europe's worst refugee crisis in decades shows no signs of easing.
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Flying high She was born in a refugee camp in Afghanistan.
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In the refugee crisis, these divisions and responsibilities have become muddled.
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Germany's generous refugee protection guarantees were raising serious questions, Baldauf said.
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Make sure to donate to the IRC for World Refugee Day.
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Assad is a central cause of the refugee crisis and ISIS.
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He's withdrawn the US from the global community for refugee protection.
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It also urges a "just settlement" of the Palestinian refugee problem.
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Read Refinery29's full coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis here.
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One refugee was killed and several others were injured, it said.
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We have to remember… Today, I did something for refugee people.
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The Obama administration had previously set a refugee ceiling of 110,000.
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For full coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis, read more here.
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The suspect, a Somali national and refugee, is in custody. 5.
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There was an alcoholic Sri Lankan political refugee with four children.
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Mass migration and increasing refugee outflows from Venezuela is the method.
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While at DHS, he focused mainly on immigrant and refugee policies.
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Some have found resonances between the art and the refugee crisis.
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Still, 45,000 remains the highest refugee resettlement number in the world.
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A huge refugee flow has raised questions about a borderless Europe.
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It is a country "in freefall," says the Norwegian Refugee Council.
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Iran. The worldwide refugee crisis—65 million people, the most since
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The refugee ban, however, has not -- it expires on October 24.
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They are now all living at the al-Salamiya refugee camp.
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They now live separately in refugee camps along Sittwe's rural fringes.
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The higher numbers are contributing to worsening delays in refugee hearings.
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"This represents a crisis for millions of refugee children," he said.
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The state currently boasts the nation's largest refugee population per capita.
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A: I went to Lesbos to experience, firsthand, the refugee situation.
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Meanwhile, the refugee issue continues to stoke fears and xenophobic politics.
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