Refugee

Refugee health.

At the end of 2008 there were approximately 42 million people around the world who had been forcibly displaced from their homeland. As a signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention, Australia resettles over 13 000 refugees each year, with 4000 settling in New South Wales (NSW). In 2007–2008, most of these people originated from Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan and Liberia. The majority co...

Refugee Health

Refugee Resettlement Housing Scout

According to the United States High Commission for Refugees (UNHCr), there are 65.3 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, 21.5 million of them being refugees. This has led to an unprecedented refugee crisis which has led countries to accept refugee families and to resettle them. Diverse agencies are helping refugees coming to US to resettle and start their new life in the countr...

Refugee relief rations.

1 Mohacsi PJ,Thompson JF, Nicholson JK, Tiller DJ. Patients’ attitudes to xenotransplantation. Lancet 1997; 349: 1031. In the absence of a political solution, we believe that there are only two ethical alternatives. Preferably, more autonomy should be granted to the refugees and aid should be targeted towards restoring their livelihoods. Such a change would probably involve dividing the camps i...

Refugee Children in England

Problems arising from the evacuation of children have lately been discussed at length. This paper deals with a similar subject, an evacuation problem on the largest scale. Evacuation of schoolchildren means more than the separation of children from their parents and home environment for an indefinite time; it means also the abandonment of many factors which have been regarded as essential for t...