Evidence from the United Nations' refugee agency - the UNHCR - cited Rwanda's 100% rate of rejecting claims from countries in conflict zones such as Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, despite UK authorities often finding such claims are "well-founded". The agency also presented evidence of more th...
Today is no different when it comes to the basic needs of home. Think of hurricane Katrina in the U.S.A. and the homes that were destroyed. The people who rebuilt them, and the people who moved on. Think of typhoons that hit The Philippines every year. Homes wiped out, and rebuilt ...
Thanks everybody for your perfect informations, but can anybody tell me the meaning of “LOL”?Does it mean “lots of laugh”? kris says: English is really vast!!! but it is wonderfully interesting! Val says: Oh! And LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) too...
Of course.From the Alawite point of view when they say “opposition” they do not mean the political meaning of the word, they cannot say “Sunni” in the street because that would be rude and sectarian, butby “opposition” they mean “the Sunnis”. And when they said “we want them...
We must rediscover the role of the storyteller who keeps us alive and gives meaning to our societies. This model [of journalism] was not built for someone like me to engage in it fully, to see myself reflected in it fully. Institutional journalism was not made for many of people in ...
On the surface, the two deals have some similarities. Both are the result of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants struck in 2016. Crucially, neither is legally binding, meaning member states must take it upon themselves to comply or not. CGTN Graphic But whereas the deal on re...
The code is developed behind closed doors, meaning that it’s difficult to make it interoperable, whereas “with a public chain, you can check the code and interact with it.” Does the humanitarian sector have the capacity to use blockchain? As one person pointed out, knowledge and capacity...
ve now been co-opted to become part ofWorld Vision’s global pandemic response. My role will be far from heroic, unlike those of our staff on the frontlines, but I’ll be doing my bit by helping to coordinate our global external engagement with UN bodies likeUNICEF, theWHOand theUNHCR....
UNHCRProtection is arguably the raison-d'锚tre of refugee policy. Yet, surprisingly, the meaning of protection is not without ambiguity. 'Domestic protection' can be distinguished from 'international protection'; the sense attributed to protection within the 1951 Refugee Convention contrasts with that...
Refuge is derived from the Latin word "refugium," indicating a place to flee back to, whereas Refugee comes from the term "refuge" combined with the suffix "-ee," meaning someone who is the recipient or subject of the action. 7 Refuge commonly points to a shelter or place where one can...