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Strong climate deal needed to combat future refugee crises
2015-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Climate change has been held responsible many of the social and economic woes affecting mainly the poorest in the global South and now many are seeing it as one of the root causes of refugee crises. In his State of the Union speech here Sep. 9 to the European Parliament, even European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said that an "ambitious, robust and binding" climate treaty is needed to prevent another refugee crisis.Climate change has been held responsible many of the social and economic...
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The refugee crisis is a portent
2015-09-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Kos: The images were searing. The body of a drowned 3-year-old washing up on a Turkish beach. At least 200 more drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Libya. An abandoned truck in eastern Austria wherein 71 people suffocated, their bodies so badly decomposed in the heat that authorities at first couldn't tell how many there were. There have been similar images all year. According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, an estimated 300,000 people have fled across the Mediterranean this year, with at least...
New Zealand Supreme Court Rejects 'Climate Refugee' Bid
2015-07-22 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: New Zealand's Supreme Court has delivered the final rejection of a Pacific Islander's landmark bid to become a climate refugee. Ioane Teitiota, a 38-year-old man who has been living in New Zealand since 2007, had argued that he and his wife and three children would face "passive persecution" if they were forced to return to the low-lying archipelago nation of Kiribati because its government is unable to protect them from rising sea levels caused by climate change. Prior to arriving in New Zealand,...
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Think Todays Refugee Crisis is Bad? Climate Change Will Make it a Lot Worse
2015-06-30 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Last year was the worst year on record for refugees. The number of people fleeing war and persecution jumped to nearly 60 million, the highest figure since the United Nations refugee agency began keeping records 50 years ago, and that doesnt even include people driven from their homes by poverty, gang violence or natural disasters. Smugglers are preying on refugees, social services in poor Middle Eastern and African countries have been stretched to the limit, and Europe and Australia are turning...
Palestinians reject Syrian army offensive to drive Daesh from Damascus refugee camp
2015-04-10 14:58:03| IT Services - Topix.net
The Palestinian Liberation Organization has rejected the notion of participating in the conflict in Syria's Yarmouk camp, ruling out involvement in a joint military operation with the Syrian regime to expel Daesh, the Agence France Presse reports. for talks, said 14 Palestinian factions supported the idea of a joint military operation with the Syrian army to expel the Daesh and we categorically refuse to become one of the parties involved in the armed conflict that is taking place in Yarmouk," the statement said.
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