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UN refugee head: Japan should accept more, fix asylum system
2015-11-25 10:58:11| Apparel - Topix.net
Antonio Guterres, right, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and Tadashi Yanai, left, founder and president of Fast Retailing Co. exchange signed documents in Tokyo Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015.
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Refugee Crisis May Threaten Development Aid to Worlds Poor
2015-11-11 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: As the spreading refugee crisis threatens to destabilize national budgets of donor nations in Western Europe, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday appealed to the international community not to forsake its longstanding commitment for development assistance to the world's poorer nations. Ban's appeal comes two days after a UN pledging conference reported a "dramatic decline" in donor commitments: from 560 million dollars in 2014 to 77 million dollars in the most recent pledges, largely covering...
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Hillary Clinton: Climate change has contributed to refugee crises, including Syria
2015-11-04 18:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Hillary Clinton said climate change is a contributing factor to refugee crises Civil war in Syria and the rise of ISIS have led to a mass exodus from the Arab nation Climate change is a contributing factor in the world's most dire refugee crises, including the one in Syria, Hillary Clinton said in Iowa Tuesday. Clinton was asked at a town hall in Coralville about what the United States can do about refugee crises in Syria and Africa. After a long answer on Syria, including calling for a international...
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Australia: Labor backs PNG refugee resettlement as Bill Shorten's tour of the Pacific beings
2015-11-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The federal opposition has broadly welcomed the imminent resettlement of some refugees from the Manus Island detention centre within Papua New Guinea after meetings with senior political figures in Port Moresby. It comes as Labor leader Bill Shorten will sit down with PNG Prime Minister Peter O'Neill on Monday morning as part of a four day trip to Pacific nations, which is largely aimed at highlighting the impact of climate change on Australia's neighbours. Last month Immigration Minister Peter...
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Climate change could cause refugee crisis
2015-11-01 06:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Journal Times: European leaders met in Brussels regarding the Syrian refugee crisis, and deep divisions remain about how to handle it. Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar said that his nation is being overwhelmed and that In the next few days and weeks, I do believe that the European Union and Europe as a whole will begin to fall apart. This immense human tragedy also affirms the significance of a recent study in the journal Nature, regarding climate change and sea level rise. The study concludes that unless...
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