The 70.8 million are People: I am one of them!
In 1994, I was forced to leave my home country D.R. Congo. On this long and arduous journey, I have been asked repeatedly why I am one of the many millions of people who have been forcibly displaced. The more I try to explain and continue to do so even to this day, the more hurt
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Oceania RHP Roundtable
Written by Kaisa Golding, RHP Oceania Co-Facilitator RHP Oceania 2019 RoundtableThe first annual Refugee Highway Partnership Oceania Roundtable was held on October 10-11, 2019 at the Garrison Church in Sydney, Australia. Hosting approximately 30 participants from a variety of churches and faith-based organisations, as well as a few individual refugee response players, the conference was
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RHP Middle East and North Africa Round Table
2/10/2019 by Gordon Showell-Rogers IntroductionThe size of the problems and the stories of suffering are overwhelming. It’s increasingly unlikely that Syrians and Iraqis will ever return home; very few will move to the West. The pressures on the infrastructures in Jordan and Lebanon (for example) are awful: as is the haemorrhaging of hope. The parallels with
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WEA Ambassador for Refugees Visits Refugee Camp in Turkey
IAFR President (Tom Albinson) visited a camp in southeast Turkey that hosts 4,000 refugees from Iraq. The people are all from the Yazidi minority ethnic group. They fled to Turkey in August 2014 to escape attacks by Islamic State (IS) militants. They shared horrific stories of torture and murder. Many of their wives and daughters
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