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Kenya’s Friendliness: something to be proud of

SIDDI KIMPOLE @SIDIKIMPOLE (3480) • Eldoret, Kenya 24 Jun

In the recently commemorated World Day of Refugees (by UNHCR) I was astonished to learn that Kenya hosts over 800,000 refugees. As reported by one of our local media houses, this is the largest number in East and Central Africa....

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Judges Need to Do Their Jobs

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 24 May 25

The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to non-white people. It is being misused and is so vital to be remembered and used correctly. Several countries' authorities are warning It's citizens to beware. Tourism in America could end up...

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A Tale from a Dark Chapter in History

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 11 Jun 24

We all know the story of Schindler during the second world war and there are probably many others. Tales of honorable people who chose to stick their necks out and help fellow human beings during a very dark time. This story is...

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More boat people arrive off West Australia's shores

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382068) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Feb 24

In my opinion, Australia doesn’t take in enough refugees but, having said that, I’ve mentioned to a few myLotters that I’m glad we’re an island. Anyone wishing to come here has to come by air or sea and the authorities take great...

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Online Cannibal Fetish

celticeagle @celticeagle (189833) • Boise, Idaho 20 Aug 22

Unbelievable! All over the world, there are these fetishes. There have been men murdered and eaten. Yes, you read right! Refugees and gays are being obducted and used in this way. OMG! What is next? I was watching a program...

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Who the fluck wants asylum in Rwanda?

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 30 Apr 22

The United Kingdom threatened a policy where male asylum seekers and refugees crossing The Channel illegally will be detained and their claims processed in.....Rwanda, with a one-way ticket? That was two weeks ago. There was a...

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Boris Johnson sick Rwandan policy may actually work, sadly.

Winterishere @thedevilinme (5216) • Northampton, England 15 Apr 22

The United Kingdom Government are threatening to send asylum seekers coming across the English Channel to Rwanda to be processed, at great cost to the taxpayer. If successful they may have to stay in Rwanda, a one-way ticket. Its...

Will history repeat itself?

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382068) • Rockingham, Australia 10 Mar 22

I’m sorry for the length of this. Have you heard about the 937 refugees that were on board the St Louis in 1939? Most were German Jews. They embarked in May and set sail from Hamburg on the transatlantic ocean liner St Louis....

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Love, People, Transcending Borders

Kandase @Kandae11 (57231) 3 Mar 22

This Russian, Ukraine conflict has certainly brought out quite forcefully the bad side of people ,and the very good side. I was reading an AP report concerning 200 Ukrainian orphans.- most of them children with serious mental...

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Volunteers in Utah repair bicycles that are donated to refugees

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122162) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 29 Jul 21

I admire the work of Marty Bodell and his relatives who live in Salt Lake County Utah to repair bikes that are in need of repair so they can be donated to refugees and families who are in need of having a bicycle to get from home...

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If Donald Trump becomes a despot, do you believe foreign countries will permit American refugees?

zee @disasteroidd420 (8) • United States 17 Nov 20

I'm split 50/50: part of me doesn't believe things will get this bad, but the other half of me sees how bad it's already gotten. Trump is planning a coup and Republicans are threatening each other to make sure the narrative that...

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Charity concert

Denise @petatonicsca (7070) • Japan 15 Nov 19

Last night my high school select choir and I and the director (I play piano) participated in an international school charity concert. The charity that we were collecting money for works with refugees in many different countries....

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Learning About The Kindertransport

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 24 Mar 19

At a recent talk and concert I attended relating to Russian classical music, one speaker’s name escaped my initial memory of the event though I was notified by event organizer Olga Tabachnikova (Director of the University Of...

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Book Review Jenny Erpenbeck Go Went Gone

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Jan 19

2017 Portobello Books – Spoiler alerts – translated by Susan Bernovsky A novel that draws the European refugee crisis away from the dehumanizing headlines to the very personal and real. Richard (surname unstated) is a retired...

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Migrants from Central America

bostonphil @bostonphil (4459) • United States 17 Nov 18

These migrants walking from Central America to the United States may be in for a rude awakening if and when they finally get into the U.S. There is lots of low paid work but there is limited to no housing available. Social...

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"Forced To Flee" The Art Quilt

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 2 Nov 18

"Aleppo" is the name of this art quilt that Anne finally finished and submitted via photographs (much larger than this one) to the juror who will decide what art quilts are chosen. Those pieces chosen will travel the world, well,...

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Anne is busy making heads

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 15 Aug 18

There is this global art quilt challenge for a show called "Forced to Flee." Throughout history people have been forced to flee from their homes for their own safety and survival due to war, oppression, natural disasters, and...

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Would you be happy if your country accepts drug addicts as refugees?

Hazel Vee @epiffanie (11327) • Australia 5 Oct 17

. With the Philippines' Duterte Administration's War on illegal drugs, some drug addicts are seeking refugee status in countries like Australia.. They claim that if they stay in the Philippines, they would be killed..They make it...

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thoughts on the refugee ban

Colin Clyde @cavalierscholar (205) 29 Jan 17

The problem with Trump's refugee ban is that it's a blunt instrument. There's no way to know 100% who the terrorist is going to be until they actually go out and committed violent acts, so blocking everyone across the board is...

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How Jesus became a refugee?

Hope @1hopefulman (45111) • Canada 17 Dec 16

What is a refugee? A refugee is a person who flees to a foreign country to escape danger or persecution. In these days, tens of thousands have had to flee their homeland because of wars and other atrocities or...

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