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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/
In some dilapidated old buildings just outside the small town of Cassibile I discovered several families of refugees had settled quite happily and were working on farms in the local area. This young girl spoke no English and very little Italian and I didn't recognise her language so I have no idea where she was from.
European refugee crisis from the news built of LEGO brick. This is not meant to be a political MOC. But sometimes when you see the news you have already forgotten what the news was about 5 minutes after you saw it. But some pictures and debates make pictures, that I just can't forget. This is my collection of those pictures from the European refugee crisis. I built the MOC for a Danish LEGO exhibition in 2016.
Lilian (86) and her mentally disabled son (57) in their tiny room in a former hotel near Yerevan, Armenia.
They are two of nearly 400.000 refugees who fled Azerbaijan to Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in 1988 - 1994. The government of Armenia provided them with rooms in former public administrative buildings not in function after the collapse of USSR - e.g. abandoned hotels, hostels, schools or kindergartens. Many refugees acquired Armenian citizenship, others decided to hold their refugee status. Many died here as they grew older, others had success to escape the situation - but too many still survive in poor social and living conditions, and that since 20-23 years.
Taken during a photo project for UNHCR and Mission Armenia, which work to improve the situation for refugees in Armenia.
October 2012.
LFI M-Analogue Mastershot
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M7, ZM Sonnar C 1.5/50 and Ilford HP5+ (ASA 800, HC-110B)
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)
A refugee from the 1992-1993 war in Abkhazia chopping wood in front of his residence near Gori, Georgia
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 🇨🇦 ♥️🌈
A little refugee appeared on the doorstep. Must have got caught in the rain. He made a bee-line for a more comfortable spot :-)
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.
A few kilometers outside of Dohuk, Iraq, what was supposed to be a five-star hotel has become a nightmarish makeshift refugee camp. After ISIS attacked Sinjar, massacring and enslaving the local Yazidi people, a few of those fortunate enough to escape have sought refuge at the massive “Hotel Kayar” (literally “place where one receives friends). With construction stalled in its early stages, the concrete structure is an inhospitable environment for the 63 Yazidi families who now call it home. Children play with no railing or walls to prevent them from falling. “We just want tents like the other refugees,” said one man, after a storm recently ravaged the little infrastructure they managed to set up in the two months they’ve been here. With a cold winter right around the corner and scarce food and water, the future looks dire.And the kids keep smiling...
© Eric Lafforgue
As the Syrian civil war enters its sixth year, the associated massive flow of refugees into neighboring countries and onward into Europe continues to overwhelm the international refugee system. As the UNHCR prepares to host a ministerial-level meeting on mechanisms for admitting refugees, the international community urgently needs to coordinate assistance to major host countries, as well as generate creative options for legal channels of migration.
On Tuesday March 15, the Foreign Policy program at Brookings hosted U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi to discuss recent developments in the refugee crisis and ways for the international community to equitably share responsibilities in addressing the crisis. Bruce Jones, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, provided introductory remarks, and Robert McKenzie, visiting fellow for the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, moderated the conversation.
This event is the latest in a series of Brookings events focusing on the Syrian refugee crisis and the U.S. and international community’s responses to it.
Photos by Ralph Alswang
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@Westbahnof, Vienna, Austria many volunteers wait to help the refugees. Most of the refugees are from Syria, Irak and Afghanistan.
Kosovar refugees fleeing their homeland. [Blace area, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia]
01/03/1999. Blace. UN Photo/R LeMoyne. www.un.org/av/photo/
Rolleiflex 3.5E, Kodak Tmax 400
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
View the Elmer and Diane Powell Collection on Mexico and the Mexican Revolution: sites.smu.edu/cdm/cul/pwl/
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.
Germany, 2015: A Syrian couple is among a throng of refugees and migrants waiting to be registered as asylum seekers in Berlin. Increasing numbers of families and children, including from the Syrian Arab Republic, are seeking protection and refuge in the country. The Syrian crisis, now in its fifth year, has forced millions to flee their homes. Many of them are risking additional hardships and dangers as they attempt to find haven outside their homeland.
©UNICEF//NYHQ2015-2833/Gilbertson VII
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I marinai sono uniti da una regola: in mare la vita è sacra. Forse le persone che stanno in città queste cose non le capiscono.
Tratto da Radio 24 - "Melog cronache meridiane", 20 aprile 2015: Gianluca Nicoletti con un marinaio, un uomo di mare che ha raccolto cadaveri.
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L’Europa sta attraversando una crisi di rifugiati in arrivo via mare di proporzioni storiche. La sua risposta in evoluzione è diventata una delle sfide del continente del 21° secolo, con conseguenze durature per la pratica umanitaria, la stabilità regionale e l’opinione pubblica internazionale.
Nei primi sei mesi di quest’anno, 130.000 rifugiati e migranti hanno attraversato il Mar Mediterraneo, viaggiando in condizioni terribili su gommoni e imbarcazioni non sicure.
Molti altri hanno provato, ma non ce l’hanno fatta. A metà aprile, 800 persone sono morte nel più grande naufragio di rifugiati mai registrato, evidenziando un aumento vertiginoso di rifugiati e migranti che muoiono o risultano dispersi in mare.
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(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.
A single #refugee mother who can only survive with the held of the local community at #Turkman refugee village near Nowshera. She will now face the hard choice of #repatriation whether forced or by choice.
I'm posting a number of photos here. Some have been published and seen before, others have not. They are for possible contribution to a global photo book project. There will be several new postings a day over the next few days.
In 1971, Bangladesh was East part of Pakistan. Pakistani military junta based in West Pakistan launched military operation against the people of East Pakistan with elimination of nationalist Bengali civilians, students, intelligentsia, religious minorities . Pakistani military and islamist militias engaged in mass murder. 10 millions of Bengalis refugees fled to India. This picture has been taken in a refugee camp at indian border near the town of Bangaon in september 1971.
In december, after a war between India and Pakistan, Bangladesh became independant.
November 2015, Lesbos, Griechenland.
Eine gerade angekommene Geflüchtete sucht am Strand nach brauchbaren Dingen für die weiterführende Flucht.