refugee

Example Sentences

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More than 120,000 Ukrainian refugees have sought refugee status in Ireland since the outbreak of war in Ukraine in February 2022.

From BBC

A Vietnamese activist who was granted refugee status by the UN has been extradited by Thailand to Vietnam where he faces a decade in prison, his lawyer said Monday.

From Barron's

“We have now decided to narrow the support to only vulnerable refugees,” Geoffrey Mugabe, a senior official in the Ugandan prime minister’s office, said.

From The Wall Street Journal

A majority of the population of the modern-day Gaza Strip descended from refugees of the Nakba.

From Salon

Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration analyst at the Cato Institute think tank, said the programme "was more inconsistent than usual by OIG accounts and compared to the more intensive refugee review process".

From BBC