updated Sat. February 3, 2024
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Fairfield Citizen
February 15, 2018
According to Leslie, of 66 million displaced people worldwide, 22 million are refugees who have been forced away from home, at a rate of 30,000 people worldwide every day. Those who gain admittance to refugee camps stay an average of six to seven years. Since 1975, the United States has let in 3Ãâà...
Utica Observer Dispatch
February 2, 2018
Sperling survived, but her parents were among the millions murdered by the Third Reich before the camps were finally liberated by the Allies in 1945. Until her ... Her family had fled Bosnia two years earlier, and spent over a year and a half in a refugee camp in Pakistan before making their way to America.
DAWN.com
November 16, 2017
Jolie, who is the Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, was speaking at the UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Summit being held in Vancouver. In her keynote address, Jolie highlighted the plight of Rohingya women seeking shelter in the refugee camps in theÃâà...
The Wire
November 10, 2017
Rohingya refugee men carry a man after travelling over the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, September 1, 2017. ... Over 30 South Asians artistes, including Riz Ahmed, Shruti Ganguly, Heems, Aziz Ansari, Kumail Nanjiani, Freida Pinto, Manish Dayal, Nandita Das and Kamila Shamsie, have signed anÃâà...
Hollywood Reporter
November 8, 2017
... while celebrating the Forevermark Tribute Collection with Chrissy Teigen, Zendaya, Freida Pinto and Ashley Graham in Manhattan. "I use [my voice] for the better." The actress has used her platform and audience of 13.6 million followers to raise awareness about issues she feels passionate about, which,Ãâà...
Inside Indonesia
May 5, 2017
'In March 2013, while working in the field providing an education at schools in refugee camps, a group of terrorists tried to kidnap me with my driver. ... Although she is unwell, Kalsoom has been extremely proactive and has used her time in Indonesia to help other refugees and asylum seekers better theirÃâà...
Huffington Post
January 27, 2017
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that makes it much harder for refugees to enter the United States and effectively bans refugees ... he was arrested in his parents' apartment in Berlin, interrogated, beaten and deported — first to a concentration camp and later to the Warsaw Ghetto.
TIME
October 7, 2016
Helpless, and with no one else to turn to, he walked for two months until arriving at the Mingkamann camp where a refugee family took him in. “He does not talk much about his history,” Borga says on Duku's background. “I think he needs a lot of time to process what has happened, the grief that he hasÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
October 1, 2016
Raja's mother survived discrimination, internment, a dangerous escape to Switzerland, and almost two years alone in different refugee camps. At 53 ... Wrumek was interned in Urbisaglia, near Macerata, where a men's concentration camp was established in the palace of Count Giustiniani-Bandini. A noteÃâà...
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