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Refugees in Kabul, Afghanistan, receive aid from volunteers from the International Security Assistance Force. (U.S. Army Photo by SPC. Anthony Murray Jr)
IDP's from Tikrit and Ramadi.
The refugee flow to the wealthy continent of Europe is just the tip of the iceberg. It's a minor crisis compared to the real refugee crisis hitting Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan, where resources are not so plenty as in Europe. Belgium is not overwhelmed by a flood of refugees like Kurdistan. Many internal Iraqi refugees from areas which have been taken by IS flee to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Most refugees remain in the region, and within the sphere of influence of the conflicts of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Browse through these photos by photographer Baram Maaruf and you might get a better understanding of the scope of the "crisis" in Europe: limited and perfectly manageable. It's a not a "refugee crisis", but a crisis of "political will".
ARBAT IDP CAMP
Arbat Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp is located outside the city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. It is one of the most overcrowded refugee camps in Iraq. The camp was supposed to house 800 displaced Iraqi families, but now there are more than 2000 families (23.000 people). In each tent there are several families. It was established for Syrian refugees as a transit camp, but it turned into a camp for internally displaced Iraqi refugees. As the crisis in Iraq enters its second year with no political or military solution in sight, the government and aid groups are being forced to seek longer-term humanitarian solutions for the more than three million displaced by violence across the country.
ASHTI CAMP
It’s a short drive to a new camp location just five km away: Ashti Camp. UNHCR and its partners began to move residents to better-equipped facilities in June 2015. Ashti camp, was recently completed and will eventually accommodate some 1000 families who will be moved from Arbat Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp. They are displaced Iraqis sheltering in Iraq's Kurdistan Region. It looks like the foundation of a new village. Instead of pitched upon packed earth, tents here rest on poured concrete foundations. Plumbing is underground and electric wiring runs along poles that neatly follow the camp's grid layout.
ARBAT PERMANENT CAMP
The third refugee camp is a permanent camp for 6000 Syrian refugees, mainly Kurds from Kobani and Qamishlo. It looks like a village with paved roads, electricity wires, shops, little brick houses. Even though the whole “village” looks miserable, it is much “better” compared to Arbat Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp.
Young children wait to be processed at the Busia collection point near the Uganda/South Sudan border before their final destination of the Impvepi Refugee Camp on Friday, 23 June, 2017 in Busia, Uganda. The refugee crisis in East Africa his reached historic levels with Uganda hosting now more than 1.2 million refugees. UNHCR reports that 59 percent of those arriving in the camps are children under the age of 18 years.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and partners opened a new settlement area in Arua district, northern Uganda, in February 2017, to host thousands of refugees arriving from South Sudan. The new Imvepi settlement was opened after Palorinya settlement in Moyo district, which was opened in December 2016, rapidly reached its 135,000 refugee-hosting capacity.
A young girl and boy at the Imvepi settlement.
UN Photo/Mark Garten
20 June 2017
Imvepi Refugee camp, Uganda
Photo # 726719
"Tell me why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon."
"You don't have to live like a refugee."
~Tom Petty
My garden pumpkin who escaped the Halloween knife...
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C. on June 20, 2016. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
from the cut trees in my front yard, these hatchling doves fell to the ground. With no nest and no trees close, I took them to the Animals in Distress bird rehab center where they'll be safely raised until they can be on their own. Thanks to the tree removal guys who took great care in rescuing them from the branches which fell to the ground. Photo by Frank.
Model Megan Breese and Faith Breese
Dress: Megan - Jasper Conran at Debenhams, Faith - bespoke handmade by Ann Rose
Hat: Ebay
34,361 and rising - this is Europe's migrant dead bodycount as at June 2018. (according to Dutch NGO, United for Intercultural Action, as reported in the Guardian).
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Pictures of drowned children, dusky skinned and dressed in "refugee" clothes are easy now to overlook. They look different, they are somebody's else's children, removed a few degrees from our own by colour and fashion to make us more unpitying to their plight. Their deaths somehow just don't quite register the same on most of us. They wash up like driftwood on our shores.
I did this shoot with English Roses, 5 year old Megan and her 12 year old sister Faith, dressing them in fashionable clothes, hoping the look may make people see differently. "Normal" looking white middle class childten. I've got no doubt I will get criticised for these images. Bad taste, sick, urgh, what was her mother thinking letting her kids pose for these shots. Oooh the concept of their death to us is shocking, distasteful, heartbreaking. Like all children's deaths * should * be - which is my point, it could be ANYBODY'S CHILD.
By the way, I don't believe an open door policy to economic migrants is wise, especially not to a country whose Benefits and Health system is limping along awaiting imminent collapse, but whatever one thinks or doesn't think of the politics of migration, it's hard not to sympathise for those striving for better living standards only to lose their lives or their children's lives at sea. I can't blame them - I'd do exactly the same in their shoes - wouldn't you?
Refugees in Kabul, Afghanistan, receive aid from volunteers from the International Security Assistance Force. (U.S. Army Photo by SPC. Anthony Murray Jr)
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 🇨🇦 ♥️🌈
Background with thanks to JoesSistah
The broken wall is from a castle near Rimini and was photographed by Max Short
Refugees are Mzzd and her beautiful daughter
Syrian refugees in Jordan: birth, life in the camp Zaatari
Zaatari camp, Jordan has more than 100,000 Syrians who fled the civil war
One more from Saturdays trip to the Chatham Dockyards "Salute to the 40's" event.
These two young refugees were sitting atop some barrels, waiting to go on to their new home in the country, away from the dangers of the city!
Actually, they were just posing as myself, and a few others took some shots of them - my thanks to their parents for allowing me to both take the shot and post it here!
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Kara Tepe refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where he met with refugees, as well as with local volunteers and authorities on 18 June, 2016. Mr. Ban's visit came just ahead of World Refugee Day on 20 June, and in the run-up to the UN General Assembly's High-Level Meeting to address the large movements of refugees and migrants, on 19 September.
A boy at the the Kara Tepe refugee camp during the Secretary-General's visit.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
18 June 2016
Lesbos, Greece
Photo # 682170
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt 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]
(Farah, Afghanistan). Young Afghan girls at a refugee/displaced persons camp on the outskirts of Farah City, Afghanistan. Many Afghan families travel from Farah to Iran (only 50-ish miles to the west) in search of work. Upon returning to Farah many families find their previous homes destroyed or occupied by new families.
Syrian refugees, including women and children, sit in dirt at a checkpoint on the Syrian-Turkish border. Photo by the ABC's Aaron Hollett.
One of the many refugee camps in north and east africa. Every year thousands of refugees trying to make their way to the european countrys.
Eritrea, Nov. 2006 (scanned slides)
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Signs of The World Cup.
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.
This photo was taken during the March Against Racism in central London on Saturday on 18 March. Many activists were furious at the new anti-immigration legislation which is clearly in breach of international law.
Although there are no legal routes available to refugees from many Asian and African countries suffering from conflict and murderous repressive regimes, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, is overseeing legislation which will criminalize refugees risking their lives at sea to reach relative safety. They will now have their asylum claims denied as inadmissible.
As marchers reached Downing Street, Braverman was thousands of miles away in Rwanda, reaffirming the UK's commitment to illegally expelling refugees to the impoverished country, which itself has a poor human rights record.
Apologies if some of the photographs in this series are clearly overexposed, which is due to my own stupidity and negligence as I forgot to reset the white balance after some indoor photography.