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The sun sets as two young refugees quietly share a private and peaceful moment high atop a hill that overlooks thousands of Congolese who live here awaiting the unknown.
Gihembe Refugee Camp
UNHCR
Gihembe, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 14, 2006.
The slightly awkward lines of an ex Leeds Roe bodied Leyland Atlantean are aided (IMHO) by Ipswich's fabulous traditional high quality livery. The attention to detail with the tramway style fleet numbers aids the dependable appearance of the fleet. I'm not sure of the reasons why UNW 403H and some it's sisters found themselves here around 1980, but it provided additional photographic variety. Across the road from here was another, but still wearing it's former owners colours. AEC swifts had provided the necessary impetus for me to visit, and several can be seen here with a Willowbrook bodied example to the right. Shortly after this I attempted to buy a small number of them for my then employer, but the Municipal fleet wasn't in a position to let them go as they were experiencing delays in delivery and troubles with their replacements. The picture was taken at the famed 'Electric House' terminus.
More than 830 000 Rohingya refugees are sheltering in Bangladesh, having escaped violence and persecution in Myanmar. This includes more than 618 000 people, the vast majority women and children, who have fled since violence erupted on 25 August. The momentum and scale of arrivals make this the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis. The incoming refugees are housed or have sought shelter in Cox’s Bazar and its upazilas, where extensive pressure is being placed on resources.
Raya is a Palestinian refugee who has lived her entire life in Ein el Helweh refugee camp. Her parents fled Palestine following the declaration of the state of Israel in 1948. Raya has worked for Association Najdeh since 1982. She is a thoughtful and well respected woman, sharing in the pain of Palestinian Syrian refugee families and their suffering, knowing only too well what it means to be displaced from your homeland.
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Our Lady of Refuge Church in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, lived up to its name during the civil war when hundreds took shelter on its grounds. In October 2006 as many as 1,300 refugees from the northern islands were camped here.
PALM SUNDAY - MELBOURNE
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
...Ariel Dorfman
Thousands of people braved the first Wintry day of the season in support of the thousands of refugees in jail on Manus and Nauru islands. The Australian government detains all refugees as they arrive, many for years, before processing them, let alone allowing them, even temporarily into the Australian community.
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These boys carry their family's bread rations.
01/04/1999. Kukes, Albania. UN Photo/x. www.un.org/av/photo/
Uganda v.s Japan
Who is Refugee?
What is Refugee?
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Egyptian refugee in the dirty, abandoned, unfinished and unsafe officeblock where he lives. In 1998, just 16 years old, S. landed in Italy after he sailed saveral days in the Mediterranean sea on a inflatable boat. Once reached Lampedusa Island (100 km from Tunisia, 200 from Italy) he was moved to a refugee camp in Sicily. He escaped from the camp and finally, catching a ferry, arrived in Europe.
"Je suis arrivé, et si ma chair est pansée,
Et que me viennent de plus belles pensées,
Mon cœur est auprès ceux qui sont restés,
Qui se battent pour cette chère mais trop chère liberté.
Comme moi ils partiront remplis de colère
Pour enfin retrouver un être cher, une terre,
Un frère, une mère, ou parfois un cimetière.
Comme moi ils feront ce chemin de souffrances
Pour ne plus vivre tant de maltraitance.
Comme moi ils vivront la peur et la douleur
Pour un rêve de bonheur et de douceur." - Slim Daouzli (Le chant du réfugié)
"I have arrived, and if my flesh is bandaged,
And that come to me more beautiful thoughts,
My heart is with those who have remained,
Fighting for that expensive but too expensive freedom.
Like me they will leave filled with anger
To finally find a loved one, a land,
A brother, a mother, or sometimes a cemetery.
Like me they will make this path of suffering
To stop living with so much abuse.
Like me they will experience fear and pain
For a dream of happiness and sweetness." - Slim Daouzli (The Song of the Refugee)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt prepare to address the press on World Refugees Day at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. on June 20, 2016. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some
Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon
Honey, it don't make no difference to me, baby
Everybody's had to fight to be free, you see
You don't have to live like a refugee
(Don't have to live like a refugee)
You can always come to Canada 🇨🇦 ♥️🌈
Gihembe Refugee Camp
UNHCR
Byumba Province
Gihembe, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 14, 2006.
Verbatium from The UNHCR COUNTRY OPERATIONS PLAN OVERVIEW
Pages 11 & 12
Country: Rwanda
Planning Year: 2006
Beneficiary Population #2: Camp Based Congolese Refugees / Asylum Seekers
(a) Number and characteristics of beneficiaries
Congolese refugees are sheltered in Kiziba and Gihembe camp. In the course of 2005, some 7,000 still temporarily housed in Nyagatare and Nkamira transit centres are expected to be transferred to a new camp in Byumba province. This will bring the total camp-based population to 45,000 assuming that at the same time a total of 3,000 Congolese will return spontaneously in 2005 still. The vast majority of Congolese refugees (94%) are from North Kivu having fled DRC between 1996 and 2004. Projected figures for 1 January 2006 are as follows:
Age Group Male (in %) Female (in %) Total (in %) 0-4 4,752 22% 5,016 19% 10,080 21% 5-17 10,368 48% 11,088 42% 21,600 45% 18-59 5,832 27% 9,504 36% 14,880 31% 60 and > 648 3% 792 3% 1,440 3% 21,600 45% 26,400 55% 48,000 100%
(b) Main locations and types of settlement Kiziba camp (Kibuye province) and Gihembe camp (Byumba province) are home to about 38,500 Congolese refugees where UNHCR provides comprehensive protection and assistance including non-food items, health services, primary and secondary education and income generating activities. WFP provides food to all refugees. A new site (insert name) is being developed in 2005 in Byumba province which will be able to host up to 10,000 Congolese refugees.
(c) Assumptions and constraints
Refugees will be transferred from the transit centres in Gisenyi and Cyangugu to the new site in Byumba in 2005. Some 3,000 Congolese decide to repatriate spontaneously when assistance is phased out in said transit centres. About 500 urban
refugees will be transferred to the new site. Refugees are issued identify cards (photo ID) in 2005 following a comprehensive registration. Resettlement will continue in 2006. The needs are for 3,600 persons to be resettled, whereas the office at current levels can process a maximum of 1,000 refugees. Half of them are expected to be camp-based Congolese. The Congolese refugees are a very complex caseload due to cultural ties to both Rwanda and DRC. Military recruitment of refugees (youths in particular) could happen again in 2006. This is highly contingent upon the evolution of the situation in DRC. In the worst case, the Government of Rwanda could launch another “voluntary” repatriation operation in 2005 or 2006, as happened in 2002. Severe shortage of land and level of poverty precludes local settlement or selfsufficiency for the refugees, who are generally peasant farmers.
Zaatari is a refugee camp in Jordan, located 10 km east of Mafraq. It was first opened on July 28, 2012 to host Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011. The camp population amounts to 19000-38000 refugees .Wikipedia
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I remember one day walking by the abandoned buildings next to the port in my hometown on the Adriatic sea; It was the first time I visited the place since long time. I saw few men in the distance playing cricket in an abandoned lawn. Others, passed next to me headed towards the ruins of the old port buildings, now only partially sheltered by a broken laminated roof. They glanced at me with scared, diffident looks. In the corner, against the gate of this open, deliberately ignored ghetto, a pile of human excrements. I came back to the place this winter, one year after; this time I did not encounter anyone. The only things left of the passage of these human lives were the rugs they had thrown over the barbwire to climb it in their escape.
Ironically, it immediately reminded me of a heavenly figure from baroque Italian paintings, but here the canvas itself was the subject, painted on barbwire by the men who saw it as a way to salvation.
Title: Camp of Mexican Refugees
Creator: Horne, Walter H., 1883-1921
Date: ca. 1910-1918
Part of: Elmer and Diane Powell collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution
Place: Mexican-American Border Region
Description: Image of the Mexican refugee camp in Texas.
Physical Description: 1 photographic print (postcard): gelatin silver; 9 x 14 cm
File: ag2014_0005_01_005_03_horne_088_camp_r_opt.jpg
Rights: DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
For more information, see: digitalcollections.smu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/pwl/id/740
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A Cuban migrant at the street in La Cruz, Costa Rica, near the border with Nicaragua, in December. Brigade 2506.
Palestinian refugee Shama Houssain rests in her room on a trash station where her family work and live in the village of Gazira Fadel, a village founded by Palestinian refugees fleeing to Egypt during the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, in Sharkia Governorate, Egyptian Nile Delta, on June 17, 2015.
From a meander around Berlin in 2010. Taken on Rosenthaler Straße. As I was a tourist I decided a photo from here was good enough. I like the spirit and the passion.