In 2001, UNHCR made five commitments to refugee women. This video, shot in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya examines the progress made in realizing these goals.
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"In war time, you just want to be alive." Learn more about refugees at www.unrefugees.org Shyrete Sulimani, 39, is ethnic Albanian from Kosovo. In 1999, when war erupted in her native Yugoslavia, she was forced to flee to neighboring Macedonia for fear of reprisals from security services. She left home in the middle of the night with her daughters, aged three years and 14 months, respectively, carrying only a bag of diapers, water, a little milk and bread. "In war time, you just want to be alive." The next day she arrived at a huge camp established by UNHCR in Macedonia. There she found shelter and was reunited with her husband who had fled their home earlier to avoid compulsory conscription. The family was resettled to Canada, where Shyrete has since started a cleaning company and her husband a landscaping firm. Two years after arriving there, she gave birth to her third child.
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Around 8000 Syrian refugees are living in camps in southeastern Turkey. But even though they are away from home, they are not backing away from their demands for change in Damascus. Al Jazeera's Hashem Alhelbarra reports from a refugee camp on the Turkey-Syria border.
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I discuss the common misconceptions regarding refugees and talk you through the official government release regarding statistics and refugee numbers. Here is the document: www.aph.gov.au Follow me on Twitter! @FearBlandness\
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Scott Pelley spoke with Cassandra Nelson of the American-based aid group Mercy Corps about the escalating famine in Somalia that has put 400000 children at risk of starving and disease.
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One of Africa's most celebrated singer-songwriters has urged action for the continent's most pressing humanitarian tragedy. Senegalese star Youssou N'dour visited Dadaab refugee camp in Northeast Kenya, the world's largest refugee camp At least12 million affected by famine and drought in the region are desperate for help. Al Jazeera's Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.
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photo © Luca Fiaccavento - www.lucafiaccavento.net www.flickr.com From "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other" (1970) N. was somewhere years ago and cold: ice locked the people's hearts and made them old. S. was birth to pleasant lands, but dry: I walked the waters' depths and played my mind. E. was dawn, coming alive in the golden sun: the winds came gently, several heads became one in the summertime, though august people sneered... we were at peace, and we cheered We walked along, sometimes hand in hand, between the thin lines marking sea and sand; smiling very peacefully, we began to notice that we could be free, and we moved together to the West. W. is where all days shall someday end; where the colours turn from grey to gold, and you can be with the friends. And light flakes the golden clouds above: West is Mike and Susie, West is where I love. There we shall spend the final days of our lives... tell the same old stories: well, at least we tried. So into the West, smiles on our faces, we'll go; oh! yes, and our apologies to those who'll never really know the Way.... We're refugees, walking away from the life we've known and loved... nothing to do nor say, nowhere to stay; now we are alone. We're refugees, carrying all we own in brown bags, tied up with string... nothing to think, it doesn't mean a thing, but we'll be happy on our own. West is Mike and Susie; West is Mike and Susie; West is where I love, West is refugees' home.
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More than 12 million people in the Horn of Africa are facing starvation, following the worst drought in decades. Many Somali refugees trying to reach camps in Kenya are being prevented from leaving by Al Shabab fighters. As Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reports from Dadaab,Kenya the children are suffering the most.
www.ntv.co.ke The number of refugees crossing the Somalia border into Kenya has now shot up to nearly 2000 everyday. Aid actors in Dadaab now say an immediate solution by the international community should be found to help food rations reach the people at the heart of the problem in Somalia. The Kenyan government has in the meantime been urged to fastrack the opening of IFO 2 camp which it pledged to open a couple of days ago and NTV's James Smart reports desperation has reached fever high forcing the host community to join the aiding band wagon.
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www.euronews.net NGOs working with Libyan refugees are calling for more solidarity from European Union states. They say only a handful of countries have agreed to resettle 148 people who fled the conflict in Libya. Euronews visited the Shusha refugee camp along the Tunisia-Libya border, where about 3700 people are still sheltering.
Trailer for the multi-award winning documentary Climate Refugees. The film was the first to illuminate the human face of climate change. The first non-partisan film on our changing climate. Learn more at www.climaterefugees.com
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Human rights lawyers say asylum seekers are getting a raw deal from a new agreement just signed between Malaysia and Australia. In a bid to deter asylum smugglers, Australia will resettle four thousand registered refugees and Malaysia will receive 800 asylum seekers from Australia. Al Jazeera's Florence Looi has more on the controversial pact.
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www.ntv.co.ke Over 30000 refugees are stranded between the Dadaab camp of Daghaley and the expansive area from the Kenya and Somalia border. According to Medecin Sans Frontieres, the refugees who are escaping the heavy fighting in Somalia and the drought situation, cannot be admitted in the refugee camps because they are stretched past their capacity.
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5 July 2011 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, says there are unprecedented levels of malnutrition among children fleeing Somalia to escape the severe drought in East Africa. Oxfam, Save the Children and the Red Cross are all launching emergency appeals. Rains have failed for the past three seasons, and aid agencies say more than 12 million people across large parts of Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya are facing dire shortages of food, shelter and health services. The BBC's Ben Brown reports from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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Download the Future History EP on iTunes today! Proceeds will be donated to the International Rescue Committee to aid refugees in need: itunes.apple.com Like Timz on Facebook: www.facebook.com
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In Syria, the town of Jisr al Shughur has reportedly been sealed off ahead of an all-out military assault. The number of Syrians fleeing into Turkey to escape their government's crackdown on protests is on the rise. Al Jazeera's Imran Khan reports.
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Tens of thousands of Japanese refugees who've faced the triple horror of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis now have another worry - their fellow citizens. RT on Twitter: twitter.com RT on Facebook: www.facebook.com
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A video about Refugees set to Suheir Hammad's piece on the K-Salaam hip-hop album. The pictures in this video were not taken by me. I only arranged into an original slideshow. The Dafur pictures were from National Geographic: Surviving Dafur: African Refugee Life I had to do some research, but found out that the New Orleans pictures were taken by a photographer named Jacob Applebaum. Thank you to everyone for the positive feedback on this video. I hope to make many more soon. If I find any comments to be offensive to any group of people, I will delete them.
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What would make you leave your home? What if you had to leave your family, your life and even your country behind? 40 million people worldwide have had to face decisions like these. They are refugees. We are celebrating Refugee Week from 20-26 June 2011 - a unique opportunity to discover and celebrate the contributions refugees bring to the UK. (The song used is Ooh Child, by the Five Stairsteps- used with permission) www.redcross.org.uk www.refugeeweek.org.uk
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Qubra and her son Pervez fled Afghanistan after losing most of their family to the war with the Taliban. Qubra's husband, a trader and long-distance truck driver, was abducted and later disappeared. Pervez was detained and tortured before being warned by the Taliban never to return to his home country. Mother and son have been living a meager existence as refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan ever since. Qubra says that she is afraid to return home. "My only hope is to see my son married." For more information about refugees, visit : www.unrefugees.org
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Almost half have arrived in the last two months as they flee famine, drought and a war that has raged for two decades. A massive influx of Somali refugees has overstretched refugee camps in Liben, Ethiopia, which were initially built to shelter 45000 people. Duration: 01:11
Angelina Jolie Visits Refugees in Turkey Hollywood actress and Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, travelled to the Turkey-Syria border on June 17th to meet with refugees. Ms. Jolie visited the Altinozu camp in Hatay, located 20 kms from the Syrian border, and met with many refugees who fled their country owing to the escalating violence. On the same day many of the refugees attended a protest against the Syrian government after participating in Friday prayers. Over the past two weeks, it has been estimated that more than 9600 people have been sheltered in camps by the Turkish Red Crescent. Speaker: Angelina Jolie - Actress and Goodwill Ambassador By Noora Faraj Al Arabiya with Agencies
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The Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya has been overwhelmed by those driven out of Somalia by famine. Scott Pelley reports on how the refugees, many of which are women, have been able to survive in an unforgiving land.
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Syrians refugees in Lebanon are finding Ramadan this year a very distressful one. For them, Ramadan composes many other difficulties facing Syrian refugees who feel neglected. The brutal crackdown by President Bashar Al-Assad's security forces has caused thousands of Syrian's to flee the country and seek refuge in Lebanon. Schools in the northern town of Wadi Khaled were providing shelter for refugees and Syrian families. Other refugees at Al-Ihsan school are learning lessons in patience and strength, waiting for the violence across the border to end. Mohammad, a refugee said ''The first thing that we face in Ramadan is psychological difficulty. We left our homes which have been destroyed and ransacked, and we came here and we are breaking our fast here. And it is true that Lebanese families have hosted us but we are guests here; we are strangers, far from our families, far from our homes. So there is a lot of emotional pressure during this month. And secondly, we are lacking in aid. We are receiving very little aid.' Most of the 300 refugees in the school are from Syrian border villages like Tel Kelakh or from villages surrounding the city of Homs, in central Syria. Ms Abeer said, ''I don't see one Arab country or charity organization that is taking care of us. All the Arab countries are silent; they are all looking after their interests only. So where are we on their mind? We are a people, not just a government. The government does not represent the people. Our people <b>...</b>
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www.facebook.com This video was filmed and directed by Michael Pierrard in Antwerp and in Brussels on the 29th an 30th of September 2010. Refugee is the second official video from the "Disposable Society" album. this song can be bought on iTunes, cd can be ordered through my website, www.baikamara.com
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After 17 years in a refugee camp in SE Nepal, the Rizal family was resettled in Seattle's Rainier Valley in 2008. This story follows the journey of Bhutanese refugees as they leave the camps in route to their new homes in countries around the world, via a transit center in Kathmandu where they get final medical screenings and cultural orientation. The piece originally aired on The Seattle Channel program City Stream. The 2 other segments in a 3 part series connecting Seattle and Nepal can be seen at www.youtube.com & www.youtube.com This segment was written by Penny LeGate who I collaborated with on this series. This video was produced by www.PangealityProductions.com Become a fan on Facebook at http
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Lawrence Gonzi, the prime minister of Malta, and Jonathan Ellis, the director of policy at the Refugee Council in Britain, discuss the likely influx of refugees from North Africa to Europe. Plus, Robin Lamb, the former UK ambassador to Bahrain and director-general of the Libyan British Business Council, talks about recent events in Bahrain. And, finally, former athlete and Olympic medalist Carl Lewis looks ahead to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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