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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.
We represent over 60 percent of the number of refugees globally.
With the majority of refugees living in urban areas, there is a strong need for a paradigm shift and new thinking.
Rather than wasting money on building walls, it would be better to spend on programs to help refugees to help themselves.
If allowed to live a productive life, refugees can help themselves and contribute to the development of their host country.
My family joined a steady exodus of refugees who settled in Uganda's capital, Kampala.
Refugees in the cities have always been denied international assistance, even after their recognition by UNHCR in 1997.
I joined my other two colleagues in exile and set up an organization to support other refugees.
Today, YARID has supported over 3,000 refugees across Kampala and continues supporting more.
Refugees want empowerment, not handouts.
I know better than anyone that initiatives created by refugees work.
We criticized them for being quite slow to return refugees.
We now deliver food in over 30 countries over cell phones, transforming even the presence of refugees in countries, and other ways.
Here in Louisiana, the first US climate change refugees exist.
But this also signifies what often is missing in the global debate over refugees, migrants and immigrants, voices of the disenfranchised.
Here, the Rohingyas refugees have been left, pretty much to rot, for over 20 years.
When I was in the fifth grade, a student asked me if my family was refugees.
He explained to me that his parents told him that refugees are people from Africa who come to the US to escape death, starvation and disease.
And the kind of thing they're doing is demobilizing militias, rebuilding economies, resettling refugees, even liberating child soldiers.
But I soon learned it's not only extremely difficult, it's also very dangerous, since North Korean refugees are considered in China as illegal migrants.
As many as 100 million refugees from Bangladesh could be expected to migrate into India and into China.
Many of the people living in countries not their own are refugees who never wanted to leave home and ache to go back home.
Over two million people became refugees.
But I was so surprised to see the shelter, refugee camp organized by the U.N. They're so poor, and they are freezing with blankets during the rainy season, In the shelters built by the U.N., they were just providing a plastic sheet, and the refugees had to cut the trees, and just like this.
During my time on the Greek island of Lesbos and on the rescue boats in the Mediterranean, thousands of refugee boats arrived to the shoreline, crowded with more than 1.5 million refugees.
In the last three years alone, more than 12,000 refugees lost their lives.
One of the few aid organizations in the world that specializes in providing psychosocial aid and first-response mental health interventions to refugees and displaced populations.
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