Quebec suspends Private Refugee Sponsorship to prioritize backlogs The province of Quebec announced that it has put the Private Refugee Sponsorship (PSR) program on temporary hold in order to process existing backlogs. In an interview‚ Quebec Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil clarified that while the suspension is provisional‚ the exact date of the program’s resumption is yet to be known. The provincial immigration department’s priority is to process the over 10‚000 requests that have accumulated
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On the Frontlines of Civil Rights Advocacy‚ The NNIRR Group and Journalists Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is one of the organizations at the forefront of championing the rights of refugees and immigrants with special focus on individual rights and justice. This include access to health care and opportunity to live safe and peaceful lives. According to NNIRR.org‚ the organization is fully devote on defending and expanding the rights of refugees
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Refugee by Alan Gratz is one of the most powerful stories that I have read in a huge amount of time. This book is from three different points of view‚ Isabel‚ Joseph and Mahmoud. I will say that it did get a little agonizing switching from point to point. I got really engaged into Isabel’s story of crossing the sea‚ and then we switch to Mahmoud crossing the desert. I was always trying to find time to read this book‚ I actually didn’t want it to end! I felt so many emotions during this book‚and I’m
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Syrian Refugee Crisis The road for Syrian refugees is very daunting‚ more importantly‚ the road behind them‚ tells a story as the road in front of them. In other words‚ the life they left‚ was as complicated as the life they are living now abroad. The home the refugees left was in utter disarray‚ amidst protests‚ fighting‚ bombings‚ shootings‚ and even sporadic region wide control under Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Even after leaving‚ they confront new and arduous tasks‚ whether they
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FORUM: General Assembly ISSUE: The Syrian refugee crisis MAIN SUBMITTED BY: The Russian Federation The General Assembly‚ _Acknowledging_ the fact that the civil war in Syria is affecting the neighboring countries‚ _Recognizing_ the efforts of Lebanon‚ Jordan‚ Turkey‚ Iraq‚ Egypt‚ Saudi Arabia and other countries receiving over 2 million refugees‚ _Fully Alarmed by_ the fact that the civil war has been spread to Lebanon and could further be spread‚ _Fully Aware_ by the fact that many countries
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Syrian Refugee Crisis “We want to live‚ love and build a just and peaceful society. We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors‚ near and far‚ day in and day out‚ to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.”‚ said Betty Williams‚ in her 1977 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Her quote‚ along with our God-given common sense‚ should guide America’s government officials in how to best handle the Syrian refugee crisis.
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Consequences of Refugee Flow and Mixed Migration ABSTRACT There are 214 million estimated numbers of international migrants worldwide. In 2010‚ there were 15.2 million refugees around the world (IOM‚ 2010). There are as many factors responsible for this large number as there are impacts. The impacts can be viewed as it relates to the migrants and the refugees themselves as well as it relates to transit communities‚ host communities in particular and Host countries in general. The dominant hypothesis
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A person who does not have own home country and is settled down in another country‚ who is dependent on the government for water‚ food‚ shelter‚ and education‚ is known as a Refugee. Nepal has lots of these kinds of Refugee camps. I was born in camp‚ and while there‚ I had a lot of struggles just to survive. My parents are from Bhutan. One day the Bhutanese government exiled about more than one hundred thousand citizens‚ which included my
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Introduction Mayukwayukwa refugee settlement is located in the Kaoma District of Zambia’s Western Province and houses 11‚000 refugees. The camp has major issue on the management of waste since there is no department for it. Furthermore‚ the camp has no designed place to dispose the waste which leads the inhabitants to dump solid waste into the nearby bushes (Bodonyi 2014). The project is intended to help the management of waste by sorting out types of waste and reducing the pollution causes by it
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has been polluted with hash tags and photos regarding the refugee crisis. The Canadian government has even launched an information campaign nationwide using the hash tag‚ #WelcomeRefugees‚ encouraging Canadians to donate‚ volunteer or even sponsor refugees.
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