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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]
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)
"#yosh loves #refugees " by @yoshlepoisson #yoshlepoisson
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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.
Refugees from Kobanê.
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.
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.
A Syrian migrant girl from the town of Raqqa tows her brother making their way on foot from Sikaminea on the southeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, Aug. 21. (Visar Kryeziu/Associated Press)
In the early days of the Spanish Civil War antifascists from around the world crossed the Pyrenees to join Spanish Republicans in the fight against Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco. Three years later, as Republican Spain collapsed after receiving no help from the western powers, refugees were forced to flee across the mountains in the other direction, in a pattern that would be repeated endlessly across the globe over the next several years (and beyond). I started the summer reading about the Spanish Civil War but eventually decided it was just too emotionally taxing to keep it up. The Spanish themselves, for complicated reasons, are famous for avoiding the subject, and I certainly can't blame them for it. Street art depicting refugees against the flag of the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939), on the wall of la Mina Canta, Catalonia, Spain.
This is on the wall at the 'Skate Park' on the Embankment near the Festival Hall...
I like the sign but thought the little caricature was great and really stood out...I also thought that the skater silhouetted in the background looked like he was carrying a gun rather than a skateboard...well that's how I saw it...
( Apologies to those of you who have already seen this.)
An exhibition of 12 figures, illustrating the suffering of refugees, has opened at Chichester Cathedral.
The set of sculptures called "Shadows of the Wanderer" by Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco is carved out of a single lime tree.
At the centre, a young man carries an older man on his back, with 10 figures reacting in the shadows.
Amnesty International UK welcomed the work as "timely and poignant".
Its director Kate Allen said: "Visitors will experience not just their own reaction to the two desperate figures that flee, but also the varied and complex reactions of the other carved figures that witness their suffering."
The cathedral said the depiction reflects current debates about exile, migration and the displacement of people struggling to escape persecution.
Ana Maria Pacheco said she was inspired by the ancient Virgil poem Aeneid, in which a Trojan Aeneas carries his lame father on his back, leading refugees from the burning ruins of Troy.
The exhibition in the cathedral's north transept is on display until 14 November.
Taken from BBC news website.
This little girl was born in a country that doesn't legally recognise her existence. She has no passport, no official rights and at the moment, no chance to move on to anywhere where she may find security.
Refugiados senegaleses muçulmanos indo para celebração do aniversário de Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké (1853–1927), "Cheique de Tuubaa". Além de ser um líder religioso que estudava o Alcorão, no Senegal, Ahmadou Bamba liderou uma luta pacífica contra o colonialismo francês. - Senegalese muslim refugees going to birthday celebration of Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké (1853–1927), "Cheik of Tuubaa". Besides he was a religious leader in Senegal, Ahmadou Bambas was a Qur'anic studious and led a peaceful struggle against French colonialism. - Refugiados musulmanes senegaleses que ibam a la celebración de cumpleaños de Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké (1853-1927), "Jeque de Tuubaa". Además de ser un líder religioso que estudiaba el Corán, en Senegal, Ahmadou Bamba encabezó una lucha pacífica contra el colonialismo francés.
Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brasil
Photo: Gustavo Nardon