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Zoe Gardner
ZoeJardiniere
OK time for a vocab lesson:A refugee is a migrant. A migrant is not a bad thing, a migrant is a person who moves. That's all. They may move due
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David Coletto
DavidColetto
A few thoughts on the new @worldvisionca/@abacusdataca poll for #WorldRefugeeDay Most Canadians have thought about how the pandemic is impacting people living in poor countries and it impacts on
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D.L. Mayfield
d_l_mayfield
One of the metrics I would love us all to consider as we vote this year is whether or not the US Refugee Resettlement Program will continue to be decimated.
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CWS
CWS_global
BREAKING: Trump Administration Violates Moral and Legal Obligations, Delays Setting Refugee Admissions Goal, Halting Historic Resettlement Program:https://cwsglobal.org/press-releases/trump-administration-violates-moral-and-legal-obligation
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HA International
humanaidint
1. Life is deplorable in the Signature Bridge #refugee camp in absence of electricity. #HAI has fund to provide solar system to 22 families out of 77. Selecting them is
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Sulome
SulomeAnderson
GOOD NEWS ALERT: I wrote this piece for @ForeignPolicy in 2016 about Syrian refugee kids attempting suicide. I interviewed a 12-year-old girl who swallowed rat poison so she wouldn't be
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Daniel Sohege
stand_for_all
Thread on terminology: "Refugee" is declaratory definition based on someone meeting the criteria set out in the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees."Asylum seeker" is someone who is actively
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Nyamori Victor
nyamoriv
COVID-19 has Kenyan refugee camp on edge: @KanereNews https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2020/04/14/kenya-kakuma-refugee-camp-coronavirus (@newhumanitarian) Dedicating this thread to articles that highlight challenges refugee face in East Africa
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Ariana Berengaut
ArianaBerengaut
In June @EricHysen and I launched one of the most meaningful projects I’ve ever led: drafting a nuts-and-bolts operational plan to rebuild the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. And this week,
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Phayvanh Luekhamhan
phayv
I have feelings about this, as a refugee going into my 41st yr in the US, much of it in VT: Refugee resettlement rhetoric needs to transform to primarily center
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Aishwarya Kumar
kumaraishwarya
Tani Adewumi fled Nigeria at age 6. He lived in a homeless shelter at age 7. He became a chess champion in the U.S. at age 8. The Adewumis welcomed
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Austin Landis
_AustinLandis
Wolf — his nickname when serving with the U.S. military in the early 2000s — became an interpreter because, he says, it was just "the right thing to do." But
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Ricardo de Anda
ricardo_de_anda
On this Memorial I choose to honor my Grandmother - Mama Juanita - a Mexican refugee who found protection in Texas in 1917, after fleeing with her young family to
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Refugee Action
RefugeeAction
This is immoral and inhumane, not a serious solution to a humanitarian crisis. Offshoring desperate and vulnerable people to "Ascension Island" would actually represent the Home Office sinking to its
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Matthew Soerens
MatthewSoerens
My chief concern with the decimation of the US refugee resettlement program is the harm done to refugeesBut the harm to the network of mostly-faith-based resettlement ministries is also very
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Zoe Gardner
ZoeJardiniere
Given there is absolutely no legal obligation on them to do so and it has no bearing on whether they qualify for refugee status, I'm genuinely curious to know, why
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