The hearts and minds of new immigrants and refugees as they reinvent their lives in America are revealed in five scenes that are set over five weeks in an English as a Second Language class.
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Undermines the Fairness of Our Refugee Status Decision-Making Process' (Media Release, 31 March 2014) ... of the Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, UN Doc A/ HRC/23/43 (15 March 2013) [20].
For her, the right to have rights secures access to the space of political action, but there is a necessarily complementary relationship here, in that the content of political action itself must be oriented towards asylum in order to ...
The boy had the dark skin and long nose of a Pashtun farmer, yet his stance was that of a soldier. Johar felt another surge of nausea. He breathed cautiously, with his mouth open. “My brother's name is Daq. Daq from Baghlan, sahib.
When Carlos Wizard started writing this book, he was on a humanitarian mission to welcome refugees on the Brazilian-Venezuela border - finding housing and work so that they could have a sustainable future.
The book underscores the international conventions and human rights mechanisms that serve as the backbone for refugee protection.
In this lecture, delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, on April 1, 1992, Mrs Sadako Ogata, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, examines the changing nature of the...
Why do people become refugees? How does it feel to be a refugee? How do refugees travel to a new home? Discover more about the reasons people become refugees in Refugees, part of the World Issues series.