(78 quotes found)
“Nobody came up with a plan for having this many refugees in our county. We are being asked to meet needs that nobody envisioned even a few days ago.”
Bill White
“The Tanzanian officials and I agreed that the 771 refugees be sent back soon to Burundi.”
Moise Bucumi
“(reply to a journalist's comment, that the Hungarian refugees arriving at Mascot aerodrome, Australia looked scruffy) Ah, yes, but they will make fine ancestors”
Francis Forro
“It's about details of maps, details of roads, about borders, details about refugees, about Jerusalem,”
Saeb Erakat
“And the High Commissioner for Refugees would say, 'Well, at the very minimum at the outset we should be prepared for a certain number of displaced persons or refugees. Let's have X blankets, X food.' On that basis they came up with this $37.4 million list.”
Fred Eckhard
“In the camps, the malnutrition rates and morbidity increased instantly. Our colleagues from UNHCR [UN High Commissioner for Refugees], they also noticed that sexually-transmitted diseases increased too, like AIDS as some refugees had to turn to prostitution in exchange for food, which is very unfortunate. We also see that there was dropping out rates, increasing dropping out rates in schools, as parents do not send their kids to school anymore because they need them to work, to do dirty labor, and to get some money to buy food.”
Simon Pluess
“We must ensure not only that refugees survive, but also that, to the extent possible, they may enjoy their life.”
Contributed by: Charles Corward
Maurizio Giuliano
“Finland has been a great supporter in the disarmament campaign. You have a remarkably low number of refugees and the number of cases of violence against women in Finland is extremely high for a European country.”
Irene Khan
“The last thing we want is for mortar shells or artillery shells to start dropping in on these refugee camps.”
Ray Wilkinson
“They were quickly surrounded by a mob of refugees, of thugs, of militias -- bearing machetes, holding stones, swinging sticks in the air. They were knocked to the ground, beaten up. One of them was thrown into a rice paddy and had his head repeatedly forced under the water.”
Jake Morland
