Refugees in example sentence

The core of the problem – and what has made it an international issue rather than just a domestic Australian problem – is that the would-be refugees (mainly from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, and Sri Lanka) have been dying in harrowing numbers.

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This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes.

Eighty percent of refugees around the world are women and children.

She grew up in Sudan, in Southern Sudan, for 20 years of war, where it killed one million people and displaced five million refugees.

Currently, most refugees live in the cities rather than in the refugee camps.

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