How To Use Refugee In A Sentence
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Such an influx of refugees did a great deal to anger the respective governments of those countries that took in the refugees.
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The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
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Would they give one up to house a refugee family?
The Sun
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I go back now and the dialect of the old residents is noticeably absent, replaced by the faux scouse of the Liverpudlian refugees.
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The first two British charter jets picked up 413 refugees last night.
The Sun
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Our foreign correspondent reports that conditions in the refugee camps are filthy and overcrowded.
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The refugee camp came under assault again last night.
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A large fund is needed when accept the refugee.
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They play urban refugees - an unhappily married man and a coffee-shop girl burdened by her ill father - on the threshold of potential love.
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We ask you to add your voice to the growing chorus of condemnation of Australia's refugee program.
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During an earlier scene of cooperative fruit picking with Cambodian and Laotian refugees, we are offered an opportunity to meditate on a pan-Asian Thailand of agrarian-pastoral well-being, and a move away from the tense border security of the 70s when refugees from Cambodia and Laos led Thailand to turn sharply to the right.
Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
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The aim is to make the refugee self-sufficient within a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pensioners already fighting to keep their heads above water are being asked to pay extra council tax to fund the refugee crisis.
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Legal Advice: Access to independent legal advice, assistance and representation is essential to any refugee determination process.
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A man overlooks destruction caused by an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza.
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Now, once again, the thin reed of refugee protection has fallen prey to the winds of political expediency.
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This is a key aspect of the refugee question which has so far received inadequate attention.
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He wears wellington boots, having given his last pair of shoes to a refugee.
Times, Sunday Times
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She writes with great feeling about the fate of the refugees, having been a refugee herself in the last year.
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Greek soldiers are already hard at work on other crisis-hit islands, distributing food packages to refugees.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a secret alliance with the Guild of Commerce, the two powers overthrew the other Guilds and left the refugees to scatter across the continent.
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But they're saying that the goal is not to keep these people - these refugees - in this area for an undetermined amount of time.
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Turkey is expecting an influx of several thousand refugees over the next few days.
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Government chiefs are worried that the refugee problem might spill over from neighboring countries.
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The refugee camp came under assault again last night.
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Medical screening is but a small part of the effort that must be made to resettle the refugees.
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It may have strengthened his hand if he had once recognised that Australia is still, as always, one of the world's havens for refugees.
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Having studied the Palestinian refugee situation in detail during her Masters Degree in Forced Migration at Oxford, she is looking forward to returning to the Middle East to work in an advocatory capacity.
Palestine Blogs aggregator
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Many refugees came to him with pleas for help.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where refugees are forced or coerced to return to their country of origin to fight, this is tantamount to refoulement, which is prohibited in all circumstances.
2. Protection
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Her parents had been separated since she was two, but becoming refugees together was a last - unsuccessful - stab at reuniting.
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During the war, when he was the most famous journalist in London, he had a series of affairs with refugee women living out the war in the bombed-out city.
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If things were the other way around, our son-whom-we-loved would be a damned terrorist, almost certainly, because he is of the third and fourth generation of refugeehood and oppression, and whence cometh salvation?
Progressive Bloggers
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The 1976 Immigration Act made family reunification and refugee settlement two of Canada's fundamental objectives.
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They didn't know how they were going to cope with the sudden influx of refugees.
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There was a risk of genuine refugees being returned to Vietnam.
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Our primary concern is to provide the refugees with food and healthcare.
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They say they will stay to rebuild their homes rather than retreat to refugee camps.
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The hang-glider fabric would become clothing, come winter, for refugees who would be glad to have it.
I Don’t Understand ?
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There would be limits on their rights to buy property, and strict quotas of Cypriot refugees allowed to return to the north.
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Immigrants, refugees, and asylees constitute only a fraction of foreign-born persons who enter the United States each year.
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All the refugees were issued with winter clothing.
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As they ate, he noticed two teams of refugees playing volleyball in the street.
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It assists tens of thousands of refugees from the Central African Republic and runs special feeding programs for school children and for thousands of malnourished children and pregnant and lactating women.
UN Suspends Food Aid Deliveries to Chad Through Libya
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About 120,000 of them live as internal refugees in squalid camps.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Hmong are the mountain peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Southern China. treated as savages by the ruling peoples of Vietnam, they were staunch allies of the US during the Vietnam war and after the fall of South Vietnam in 75, the US accepted a fair number as refugees.
"We have to be very careful. We want professors to speak with what they see as their truths."
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The United Nations said it was gravely concerned at the shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia.
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Despite sometimes being quite sensible (as Mr. Kenney is trying to be on citizenship, refugees and immigration), it's members of the Frat Pack who are immediately off the mark with the kind of perfervid rhetoric that goes with the Conservative communications strategy: unrelenting partisanship and obsessive control of information.
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The country, for centuries open to refugees, has become one of the strongest opponents of immigration and multiculturalism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Count rallied his forces in Bechafen where the constant stream of refugees meant lean rations and poor quarters for all.
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The refugees do jobs that workers in the host country refuse to do.
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Oxfam may also help with the transportation of refugees.
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Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.
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Markets and bazaars were closed in Quetta, a border city with a large Afghan refugee population.
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There are reports of some voting in refugee camps outside the city.
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The arrival of the fresh medical supplies was a welcome sight for the beleaguered doctors working in the refugee camps.
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We'll look at efforts to help thousands of refugees resettle as they make the long journey back home.
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Others were tories, and adherents to the old kingly rule; some of whom took refuge within the British lines, joined the royal bands of refugees, a name odious to the American ear, and occasionally returned to harass their ancient neighbors.
Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
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How, in all good conscience, do we say ‘no’ to climate change refugees who point at our profligate use of energy that contributed to their plight?
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They stay here a few hours before being sent to refugee camps, which are now almost full.
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Many refugees are using donated clothing to keep their livestock warm as temperatures plunge to near freezing at night.
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Between 1997-98 and 1999-00, the number of refugee clients nearly tripled from 1,276 to 3,365.
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The refugees stumbled toward military buses, blinking at the harsh lights.
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Many are still facing the uncertainty of life in refugee camps a year after leaving their homes.
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Even while the military endgame played out in Abidjan, post-conflict development specialists were presumably drawing up plans for interventions such as disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, security sector reform, and resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons.
Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern
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What kind of sick society is it, in these refugee camps, that a mother could condone the suicide, at any age, of her son?
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Israeli infantry and armor rolled away from the town of Beit Hanoun and the nearby Jabaliya refugee camp shortly after daybreak, witnesses said.
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And while I was there, we had a boatload of refugees coming from a town called Chilong, another town that was just literally wiped off the face of the Earth.
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In 1991, he worked in an Iranian hospital on the border of Iran and Iraq, assisting refugees.
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Some refugee children were plucked out of the country in a number of mercy missions.
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One boat of refugees was caught in naval crossfire and sunk.
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Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
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For the first time it also became necessary to determine refugee status on an individual basis.
Refugees in the Age of Total War
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According to refugee experts, existing procedures failed to identify and protect genuine refugees.
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The refugee problem has now reached immeasurable proportions.
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Many of the deportees were born in refugee camps in Thailand, have never been to Cambodia or left as babies, and do not speak Khmer.
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The refugees were deported back to their country of origin.
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Only nine per cent were found to be genuine political refugees.
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They were "denationalized" and turned into stateless refugees in violation of the law of state succession.
Palestine Blogs aggregator
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Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
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Hamra checkpoint, the main Algerian - Mauritanian border point, is a long drive on extremely difficult roads from the main cluster of refugee camps in Tindouf.
Global Voices in English » Western Sahara: Landmine Injures Five During Peaceful Protest
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No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement.
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The majority of those who claim asylum are genuine refugees.
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Some people made a lot of money smuggling refugees, and they were pretty ruthless with anyone they regarded as competition.
WALL GAMES
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During 1992-2002, an estimated 380,000 to 536,000 persons entered the United States annually as immigrants, refugees, or asylees.
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The U.N. refugee chief has called on countries to end the plight of some 12 million stateless people caught in what he described as "limbo," denied basic human rights because no country will grant them citizenship.
The Seattle Times
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A quarter of a million refugees roved around the country.
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There was a risk of genuine refugees being returned to Vietnam.
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Demands have been made for the immediate distribution of food to the refugees.
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The sailors threw down life jackets and told the refugees to swim back to their boat.
Times, Sunday Times
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She became involved in social and relief work among the refugees.
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Washington -- A refugee from war-torn Somalia, Bilan Nur, came to the United States and succeeded in getting a job as a customer sales representative with Alamo Car Rental in Phoenix.
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Many of the refugees were suffering badly from thirst.
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The government had abandoned the refugees to their fate.
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For the film, Barmak cast non-professional actors from orphanages and refugee camps.
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It survived on little money and few facilities, but its faculty included some of the finest minds from Europe, many having fled to America as refugees.
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Some lawmakers want to speed up the process of getting the refugees safely to America.
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Today, nearly 1 in 100 of the global population is a refugee or is otherwise displaced (a sixfold increase in a generation).
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The warehouse is being used to store food and clothes for the refugees.
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From there, the deportees eventually escaped to refugee camps.
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As you could not leave the refugee camp in Daker Senegal, what shall we do ?
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It still has Arab residents, though most of Jaffa's population fled fighting in 1948 and many ended up in Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, some 50 km (30 miles) to the south.
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Kamihl the Afghan refugee is as much my neighbour as those living around me.
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Refugees would require a bit of training and perhaps a few weeks' worth of labor.
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Those who managed to escape often turn to the refugee camps in neighboring Chad.
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The Count rallied his forces in Bechafen where the constant stream of refugees meant lean rations and poor quarters for all.
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He hopes to be classified as a refugee and assigned to a country so he can complete high school and go on to university.
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Tents that house up to 10 people at a time are made of plastic tarps, metal sheeting, or bamboo - they provide shelter to refugees for months, or sometimes even years.
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The refugees evaded capture by hiding in the forest.
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Europe has itself endured the horrors of war, persecution and mass refugee flows.
Times, Sunday Times
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The refugees seem anxious to get back to their homes and many of them left behind family members in the city.
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The government has agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants.
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The West has chosen to repudiate all responsibility for these refugees.
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They tried every way possible to reestablish the refugees uprooted by flood in new homes.
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The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
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Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative.
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I chose to interview eleven Vietnamese refugee youths who received scholarships for their academic achievement.
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European Villages for refugees, the first in Aachen, one in
The Nobel Peace Prize 1958 - Presentation Speech
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He also wants European states to slash aid to the poor countries that refugees flee from.
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He is a German refugee, a Jewish scientist specialising in relativity and its conundrums; she is a doctor's daughter, musical, ambitious, idealistic.
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Neither of the two basic methods - distillation using the sun's heat nor the use of modern desalinisation plants - is likely to meet immediate fresh water requirements in a major refugee emergency, and is therefore strongly discouraged.
16. Water
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The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees.
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In trying to find solutions to refugee problems everywhere, UNHCR must invariably "mediate", so to speak, between the concerns of states, and the rights, wishes and aspirations of refugees.
The Current Problems of Refugee Populations
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Canada has made it possible for * some* same-sex couples and individual lesbians and gay men to emigrate from the United States to Canada under Bill C-23 and the new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-27), passed in 2002.
Free advice
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In the end, the only way to achieve peace in Palestine is to force Israel to withdraw from the occupied areas, release prisoners and help to settle the refugees.
Matthew Yglesias » The Strategic Logic of Nonviolence
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This also led refugees to ask how they could overcome hostility and suspicion.
Times, Sunday Times
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He lauded the work of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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In Congress, proposed legislation would: Slash the number of refugees and immigrants admitted to the United States.
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For these animals, as well as another 45 moon bears and 14 sun bears, 50 macaques, 30 gibbons, 10 crocodiles, 4 binturongs, and 200 dogs, Banglamung Wildlife Breeding Center is essentially a well-appointed refugee center.
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We feel deeply for the plight of the refugees.
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All refugees would be entitled to compensation for their "refugeehood" and loss of property.
IMRA Middle East News Updates
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The company that forced refugees to wear red wristbands to receive meals has been housing asylum seekers in homes with red plaques on the walls.
Times, Sunday Times
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UNRWA reported that yesterday (3 Feb 2009) Hamas armed assailants took at gunpoint 3500 blankets and 406 food parcels from the UNRWA distribution center at the beach refugee camp (Shati).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
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One of the nearby recipient countries, Malaysia, had actually begun towing refugee boats back to sea, where they often sank or capsized.
The Good Fight
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Undocumented refugees are very vulnerable to harassment and extortion by the police, threatening arbitrary arrest or refoulement.
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The Warrington Silver was exclusively commissioned from the French Protestant refugees known as the Huguenots, who were the best goldsmiths of the period.
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Demands have been made for the immediate distribution of food to the refugees.
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The UN had been co-operating with the State Department on a plan to find countries willing to take the refugees.
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Tens of thousands live in squalid refugee camps.
The Sun
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Many of the city's residents who were able to leave the city are now concentrated in squalid refugee camps in surrounding regions.
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Thousands of refugees left the country following the outbreak of civil war.
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The refugees were a pathetic sight - starving, frightened and cold.
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The talks revolve around whether to grant them refugee status and over how to restrict their movements and activities in Europe.
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Deceased Nazima wife of Nisar was abducted from Haripur and was gange raped before her murder; police has arrested accused Afghan refugee Syed Nazir from Kohat bazaar and have registered case against him under anti terrorist act 1997.
A Woman Raped and Killed in Kohat
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In that respect, he stands in a different juristic position, at least for international law purposes, than if the finding of him being a genuine refugee had not been made.
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[With their final defeat in 672,] many Tuyuhun refugees resettled in the Liangzhou region [of present-day southern Gansu Province], under the protectorship of Tang China.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet
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The refugees had suffered degrading and inhuman treatment.
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Opposite the hotel was a refugee camp with children who were constantly trying to part unwary tourists from their money.
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Iran has had to endure 20 years of coping with massive influxes of Afghan refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion and the subsequent civil wars.
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Until those central elements of decency and prosperity exist, our nation should help shelter political refugees from this benighted place.
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Driven by the desire to understand the gap between all the global attention to Darfur and the worsening conditions there -- and with no experience in filmmaking, or any connections in Africa -- the filmmakers 'guileless approach takes them deep into the refugee camps of Chad and Sudan.
Boing Boing
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The pontiff called for a ‘resolute effort’ to resolve the plight of the refugees.
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An estimated 300-500 refugees are entering Pakistan daily via unfrequented routes.
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The writings of young teenage boys and girls in different refugee camps and occupied towns are the most moving part of the book.
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The freedom of the state with regard to refugees is restricted by the prohibition on refoulement in international law.
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Legal Advice: Access to independent legal advice, assistance and representation is essential to any refugee determination process.
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Refugees crossed the border to escape the carnage in their homeland.
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It would take just a year and £15,000 to refresh the skills of the 3,000 refugee doctors in Britain.
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All three have refugee status or leave to remain in Britain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Refugee problems remained of secondary importance to wider issues of impending war.
Refugees in the Age of Total War
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An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.
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The refugee camps, however dreadful, were a way station to their dream.
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She became involved in social and relief work among the refugees.
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These innocent refugees were interned by Israel in squalid concentration camps such as Gaza and the West Bank.
Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog
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You go into the refugees' flats and they are spotless.
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At times the book is overly laden with abstractions, but having squatted in refugee camps and watched Los Federales hunt down wetbacks, I felt it to be well anchored.
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War would not only sever these supplies, but would also provoke a big influx of refugees.
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The 1905 laws were designed to prevent poor Jewish refugees fleeing pogroms in eastern Europe from entering Britain.
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The mortality rate for refugees in the overloaded and decrepit boats continues to rise.
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The capacity of the occupied territories to absorb part or all of the refugee population will be considered in chapter 9.
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Can we define anyone fleeing war or persecution as an'economic' refugee?
Times, Sunday Times
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Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
Sierra Leone
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Meanwhile, as sure as night follows day a refugee boat has sunk with loss of life.
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The Home Office has refused him refugee status.
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These regulations ensure the humane treatment of all refugees.
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We cast the film at the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Peshawar, on Pakistan's north-western frontier, and at the various markets and schools in the area.
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The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.
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What will become of those refugees?
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Before then there were certainly refugees - people driven by war or persecution to leave their homes and seek refuge abroad.
Refugees in the Age of Total War
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Q The second part, if I might -- the processing at sea was set up to deal with some of the human rights problems in Haiti, but now with this massive outflux of refugees being drawn out into the open sea, where they run risks, and the fact that you have to deal with them no in various locations, in much larger numbers than expected, haven't you just exchanged one problem for another?
Briefing On Haiti By William Gray
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The homeless refugees were rehoused by the local government.
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The refugees had lost their homes and their possessions, and it was now sink or swim.
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The army clamped a curfew on the refugee camps.
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The refugee had been placed in a particular area by official decree - now it was up to the officials to see to his needs.
Refugees in the Age of Total War
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During the First World War it housed Belgian refugees, who made sabot clogs in the workshop of Arthur Simpson, renowned furniture designer and wood-carver.
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It's set at a refugee camp on the border of Turkey and Iraq, where hordes of parentless children earn money clearing land mines.
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Only genuine refugees can apply for asylum.
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I asked my headmaster if he could arrange a collection for a refugee charity.
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While politicians compete to see who can make the most inflammatory speeches against refugees, the reality is inhuman treatment.
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I wondered in alarm, seeing all the available dry spaces being crowded out by the bedraggled refugees.
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He had been handing out alms to starving refugee children.
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Founded in 1982, Aida girl school was aided by UN in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp.
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The government divides asylum-seekers into economic migrants and genuine refugees.
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Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.
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Three cheeky Capistrano swallow refugees dive-bombed out of the heavens and zoomed in all around him.
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Two million Zimbabwean exiles, refugees, and economic migrants put a strain on the South African economy.
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There have been claims and counterclaims throughout the week about what's happening inside that refugee camp, or indeed what happened in the previous days.
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The government provides food for the refugees.
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As numbers rise, a decreasing proportion are found to qualify for refugee status.
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He has also retained his predecessor's "excision" policy, under which asylum seekers on islands like this one are barred from the mainland's refugee review system.
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