NPR's Deborah Amos has spent a lot of time talking with Iraqi refugees in that part of the world, and she did a big series on the refugees for NPR's MORNING EDITION last week.
John Roccosalva , a Greenwich Village resident who invited me and dozens of others of World Trade Center refugees to use the telephone in his apartment on a day when people were desperate to communicate with their loved ones.
The Refugee Council, which lobbies Britain to take in more refugees, suggests that only 0.05% of the world's 13m refugees were sheltered in the United Kingdom in 1997.
Military experts warn us our national security is threatened by massive waves of climate refugees destabilizing countries around the world, and scientists tell us the very web of life is endangered by unprecedented extinctions.
Afghans have been the world's single largest group of refugees for 19 years in row, due to war, famine, drought and political repression, according to the UNHCR.
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So understanding that luck, and knowing that others died in that attack, people whose work he deeply respected, has given him a renewed sense of energy and determinism to carry on his work and to publicize the plight of refugees around the world.
C. who were are an authority regarding the issuance of World Passports to stateless people and refugees.
During World War II, a handful of wealthy refugees fled Hitler with Rembrandt canvasses rolled up in the bottoms of their suitcases.
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Les was actually born in Europe, after World War II, to a family of Hungarian refugees.
The story centers on an American-born Jordanian woman who takes it upon herself to organize a soccer team from the children of refugees from all over the world who by happenstance were placed in the small Atlanta suburb of Clarkston.
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Many of the refugees get rations from the United Nations' World Food Program, which feeds nearly 1 million people a month at Jalozai and other distribution points across the northwest.
Several brilliant Lebanese video artists, including Lamia Joreige and Akram Zaatari, interwove stories that captured the movement of people throughout the Arab world over the generations, not only as refugees but as active immigrants.
In fact, many of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II were refugees from Europe.
Jewish agents scoured the world for ships large enough to bring Europe's Jewish refugees to the land of Israel.
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" Jolie last visited Syria in June, 2011, when she was welcomed by refugees with a sign that read, "Goodness Angel of the World, Welcome.
And as Korea's international stature grows, the world may call upon it to join peacekeeping missions or take refugees - in effect paying back some of the foreign aid and protection it received 45 years ago.
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