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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
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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]
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]
Refugees show Kathrin Menzinger & Vadim Garbuzov
August 08, 2017 - Stuttgart, Germany.
WDSF Professionals Kür Latin Show at German Open Championships 2017, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle Stuttgart.
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 🇨🇦 ♥️🌈
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!
A young Afghan refugee eats a piece of candy given to him by an American soldier. He is one of hundreds of Afghans who live in a dirt field in the middle of Kabul. Military members of International Security Assistance Force ventured today into the refugee camp to bring food, school supplies, clothing and blankets. The installation chaplain at the ISAF Headquarters aims to make these supply visits monthly to help out those in need.
International Security Assistance Force HQ Public Affairs
Photo by Staff Sgt. Stacey Haga
Date Taken:12.19.2010
Location:KABUL, AF
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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]
Refugees storm into a train at the Keleti train station in Budapest, Hungary, September 3, 2015 as Hungarian police withdrew from the gates after two days of blocking their entry.
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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.
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.
Boudhanath is an extremely ancient site, however its importance as a Buddhist site has been greatly increased by the influx of Tibetan refugees over the last 60 years, that have fled here in order to escape Chinese persecution in their homeland. The circular cora around the stupa is surrounded by a number of gompas (monasteries) such as this one.
When the camp on the border crossing was still being set-up. Families were fleeing an ongoing battle of Hama. They had hoped they would be let into refugee camps in Turkey, but it didn't happen. There was little water, almost no sanitary facilities. It was cold and damp.
Bab al Hawa, Syria, January 2013.
How would one define the price of freedom? Are those who are fighting accepting its price? What about those who do not take sides, trying to survive until better times ? Is it possible to accept the death of loved ones regularly? Bombardment by the regime of hospitals, bakeries, shelling residential buildings?
It is now estimated that close to 9 Millions Syrians, that is 40% of the nation, has fled homes. This is a final gesture of despair. You give up your place in the world. Instead of a roof you have cold sky above, and then instead of blankets your clothes are soaked in sweat. You do not know whether tomorrow your children will eat. No work , no future , except those of the fittest. Humiliation.
It would seem that Bashar has had to go away. Against him was almost the whole country. People took to the streets. Not once, not several times, but every day, every week and every month. They were met with tanks! But they went on. It would seem that such courage and determination is rewarded. By the support of the world, solidarity between those who value freedom. We all have the right to it. We need to believe in it.
But not in Syria. In Syria, if you want freedom, you must die. In Syria you can be free only once you were buried. Protesters are rewarded with death, the barbarism of this scale is difficult to imagine. It happens on such a scale that we can not understand it. Most of us never had to deal with it. Perhaps only our grandmothers and grandfathers, the generation affected by the Second World War, would understand.
Those who did not protest, they also had to run away from home. For more than two years the regime applies the principle of collective responsibility. Just that you are from Aleppo, Idlib, Hama and Homs, so should you die, and your daughters will be raped , if they fall into the hands of the Shabiha.
If, in Poland, 80% of people protested against the government, and the government would send tanks and artillery against us, bombed hospitals and our blocks of flats, would we we accept the fact that the world does not respond? Our world is based on the false assurance of solidarity. To be able to believe in it, it is better to accuse those who try to get a little bit of freedom. Even at such cost.