http://www.salvationarmy.ca/2006/06/18/refugees-seek-safety-and-a-future/ Giving Hope Today Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.salvationarmy.ca/2006/06/18/refugees-seek-safety-and-a-future/comment-page-1/#comment-57749 Mercurial » Blog Archive » World Refugee Day Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:57:26 +0000 http://www.salvationarmy.ca/2006/06/18/refugees-seek-safety-and-a-future/#comment-57749 [...] as the FP says. But unlike what they say, the total figure is not 10 million - it is, officially, 33 million people, according to the report on from the UN Refugee Agency: this figure includes the refugees, the asylum seekers, the internally displaced persons, the returnees and the stateless persons. In 2006, the IDP number was driven by Iraq’s war: there are people doing their work to alleviate this: Oftentimes we have senseless figures, like the three million IDP from Colombia, or the 2.2 million Iraqis that have been displaced thanks to this recent oil war. What does it mean for us? Seriously, how is the world changed to your eyes on that ongoing tragedy? No one is a refugee by choice: In a world, whose focus has become security, the Refugee Highway has become even more challenging. The rights of refugees to seek protection can be subtly discouraged, disregarded even, by perception and process. Yet, they persevere. Hope lingers as their search for a durable solution, for a life lived in peace and productivity continues. [...] [...] as the FP says. But unlike what they say, the total figure is not 10 million – it is, officially, 33 million people, according to the report on from the UN Refugee Agency: this figure includes the refugees, the asylum seekers, the internally displaced persons, the returnees and the stateless persons. In 2006, the IDP number was driven by Iraq’s war: there are people doing their work to alleviate this: Oftentimes we have senseless figures, like the three million IDP from Colombia, or the 2.2 million Iraqis that have been displaced thanks to this recent oil war. What does it mean for us? Seriously, how is the world changed to your eyes on that ongoing tragedy? No one is a refugee by choice: In a world, whose focus has become security, the Refugee Highway has become even more challenging. The rights of refugees to seek protection can be subtly discouraged, disregarded even, by perception and process. Yet, they persevere. Hope lingers as their search for a durable solution, for a life lived in peace and productivity continues. [...]

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