Refuge
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Most climate migrants will relocate within their own borders, but others will have no choice but to seek
refuge
abroad.
So they are taking
refuge
in fantasy.
Nonetheless, major political figures seem to believe that they can respond to transnational challenges by seeking
refuge
in national myopia.
If this respite and
refuge
is gradually narrowed and invaded by the same kind of “products” as those that dominate the mass market, we are condemned to be perpetual captives of the same stunted universe of “practicalities,” the ordinary agglomeration of clichés packaged in advertisements.
The outcome may well be that these countries leave the OAS, and seek
refuge
in the new organization that they just established.
And now Ukraine’s fugitive ex-president, Viktor Yanukovych, is reported to have taken
refuge
there as well.
With adults often banned from working in their country of refuge, those children lucky enough to have living parents are pushed into labor – wherever they can find it – to provide their families with some miniscule income.
But global action must go well beyond offers of temporary or permanent
refuge
for the displaced, or funding for frontline countries.
More importantly, they provide a
refuge
for fish populations, a kind of insurance policy against stock collapse.
In February 2000, at the request of victims, Senegal indicted and arrested Chad's former dictator Hissene Habre, who had taken
refuge
there.
Foreign policy has almost invariably been the
refuge
of US presidents hit by mid-term defeats.
Today, who will give
refuge
to the last pagans of Iraq?
Unsurprisingly, when set on this path, it also became the chosen
refuge
of Osama bin Laden and of the Taliban leadership that fled Afghanistan after the US-led invasion.
Let us be very clear, too, about “renegotiating the terms of membership,” the
refuge
of those who want to leave but want to persuade people that it really is just an adjustment of the relationship.
Now Muslim refugees and survivors of other wars, having found no
refuge
in Eastern Europe, also are fleeing to safety among the Germans.
Starting in 2012, Latin American economies cooled significantly, owing to the European debt crisis, China’s slowdown, collapsing commodity prices, and capital flight from emerging markets, as rattled investors sought
refuge
in safe assets.
For the poor and unemployed, the public sector once provided a last
refuge.
The less willing we are to ask harsh questions about humanitarianism and human rights, peace and justice, truth and reconciliation, the longer we take
refuge
in self-flattering fantasies about the fundamental reconcilability of all good efforts, the higher the cost will be when the moment of reckoning comes.
Others might take
refuge
there, creating a dangerous standoff.
As this current situation plays out, the government of Rwanda will focus its efforts on treating those who seek
refuge
in our country with the dignity to which they are entitled, and will take the necessary steps to facilitate their safe passage home when the time comes.
To many Jews, it is the one state that will always offer
refuge.
Their provision of
refuge
for persecuted Yezidi and Christian communities is further proof of this.
Many right-wing politicians, however, appear to prefer taking
refuge
in populism, nationalism and nostalgia.
A Lifeline for European SolidarityMADRID – A human tragedy is unfolding in the Mediterranean, with hundreds of thousands of refugees risking – and, in many cases, losing – their lives for the chance to find
refuge
in Europe.
The Scoundrels of Economic PatriotismSamuel Johnson called patriotism “the last
refuge
of a scoundrel.”
The main causes of the fighting that has afflicted the DRC for so long have been competition for control of that impoverished country’s vast natural resources and neighboring Rwanda’s effort to wipe out what it sees as a potential threat posed by perpetrators of the 1994 genocide who took
refuge
in the DRC.
The “nation of immigrants” was traditionally regarded as a
refuge
from danger.
It provided
refuge
to the Dalai Lama when he fled Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959, granted asylum (and eventually Indian citizenship) to more than 110,000 Tibetan refugees, and permitted them to create a government-in-exile (albeit one that India does not recognize) in the picturesque Himalayan hill town of Dharamsala.
When faced with acute, seemingly overwhelming threats like Islamic terrorism, Russian adventurism, and demagogic populism, the best
refuge
can be fundamental principles and values – complemented by a little common sense.
Free of roots or tradition, they take
refuge
in superficiality from the conflicts that surround them, seeking fulfillment in consumerism, careers, and lifestyles.
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