The Unhcr Geneva Placement Is The Perfect Internship For Me

A refugee is a person who was forced to leave their country. Whether it be from warfare or natural disaster, their homes are no longer safe to live in, so they need to relocate elsewhere. Once someone sets foot on the journey of becoming a refugee, they become vulnerable and dependent with no sense of what the future will bring. In an attempt to accommodate them, first world countries with the resources necessary to assist these refugees, are struggling to determine whether or not they should step-in and help. Some argue that taking them in could come with excessive consequences, while others believe they could be assets. Although there may be a few consequences, they are outweighed by the benefits and undeniable severity of the situation.

During the 2015 Canadian Federal election, I volunteered for Anita Vandenbeld, the Liberal candidate in my riding. I spent after-school hours over three months making phone calls and going out door-to-door canvassing, which gave me the opportunity to talk with my community members, many of whom were first-generation immigrants and refugees. I listened to their stories about their struggles in their former countries, hearing personal testimonies of global challenges today. Many were Vietnamese and Somalian refugees, having fled conflict in their home countries. Their tales of success in the face of hardship inspired me deepen my understanding of our world issues and, as co-head of Lisgar Collegiate Institute’s Model United Nations Club, incorporate the discussion on immigration and refugees in my club. If it were not for the education many

These interests and my detail-oriented organizational skills, determination and compassion have instilled within me the goal of a goal career in facilitating international humanitarian aid. My recent involvement with tutoring refugees in Elizabeth, New Jersey has really opened my eyes to the many problems people face daily and given me social consciousness

With increasing interest in serving refugees, I sought the help of Ben Lyons, a Groton alumnus, to help me find a fitting internship for the subsequent summer. Ben helped me find an internship with an organization that provided free legal assistance to refugees and asylum seekers in Istanbul, Turkey. This was in the summer of 2015 and the refugee crisis had just unraveled; Turkey, at the time,

They propose three solutions: voluntary repatriation, local integration, and resettlement (UNHCR Resettlement Handbook 28). The UNHCR adds that “The three solutions are complementary in nature and, when applied together, can form a viable and comprehensive strategy for resolving a refugee situation” (UNHCR Resettlement Handbook 28). Voluntary reparation is helping a refugee safely and proudly return to their country of origin, allowing them to resume their former lifestyle (UNHCR Resettlement Handbook 31). Local integration is attempting to grant the refugee a permanent right to stay in the host country, and possibly become a citizen (UNHCR Resettlement Handbook 34). Resettlement is transferring refugees from the original country they fled to, to another State that agreed to accept them and grant permanent settlement, and sometimes citizenship (UNHCR Resettlement Handbook 36). This book provides extensive details on policies used by the UNHCR, which will be helpful when writing the Policy

* HUMANITY - The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, born of a desire to bring assistance without discrimination to the

I would like to contribute to a community with my strong policy, research, planning, implementation, monitoring, and development skills through the different organizations and agencies. Exposure to World Bank work practice will be an invaluable experience, as I aim to work for a multilateral organization. I am interested in working with World Bank because of its goals, which emphasized on alleviating poverty, and promoting development throughout the developing countries. I was born and raised in poor family in Nepal, where I have faced various challenges for my personal development, education and health care. My personal experiences in poor nations and poor family background helped me to understand the real face of the people, who are living under the basic human

From 1991 over one-sixth of Bhutan’s people flee their country and take a shelter in Nepal, India and other countries around the world. The large populations of Bhutanese refugee are called lhotshamps, an ethnic group, who were forced to leave their country in the early 1990s. Among 105,000 Bhutanese I’m one of them. I was born in a hut made of bamboo, food rations, and dirt roads. We are hostile, unsettled, unsure of who we are and what future held for us. I often think can we ever able to get rid out of the tag called “refugee” would my life ever changed, while ongoing tussled between mind and outside world finally in 2008 United States open a door for us to settled in the United States a “promised land” with full of struggle in 2009 we came here at Grand Forks. As I was growing up in the refugee camp I have seen a countless number of violence, crimes, injuries, and rebuff that words can’t be described. Most importantly death of people from a disease that can be a cure if, we have enough facilities such as, advanced medical training and hospitals. Although during my early childhood I have seen so much of maltreatment and practices, I always thought of having a career in health-related profession because I wanted to invest and improve the lives of individuals so that their children don't have to orphans, forced to work when their parent died, nor they have to beg for food. When I was 10 years old, my friend and I were trying to climb up the mango tree and I step in

In this essay “Adapting to a new culture”, Maria Abroad discusses, Adapting to a new culture is not easy because from childhood onwards everyone has own culture. However, we are born into the culture, we are not born with the culture. So adapting a new culture is possible. According to Maria, when people move to a new country or a new place, they often find the new environment is quite different to what they have been used to. It is the best, exciting, and unbearable experience of your life. Maria states that experience with abroad living is challenge and adventure, because you have become independent and adjust to the different culture, without the support of friends and family. Maria gives us three ways to adapting to a new culture, when we moved to a new environment.

-According to the UNHCR, the people most in need of assistance are the ones forced to leave their homes due to political conflict. These people have little or nothing, lack of access to clean water, sanitation, and medical care. The UNHCR sends emergency assistance to these refugees,

Most are children, but less than half have access to education.” Because of this, their mission is to “to prevent a lost generation by giving refugee children the education they need to build a better future.”

Although volunteers for Medecins Sans Frontiers are commonly stationed in various countries with a dire healthcare worker shortage, regions with refugee camps and internally displaced persons are also a focus for this organization. Refugees and internally displaced persons often come from war torn regions and live in close confines with poor sanitation and limited resources. These living situations become a breeding ground for diseases and other health issues like malnutrition, yet the individuals lack access to any sort of healthcare. The organization also responds quickly when regions suddenly experience an increased need for healthcare, for example in times of an epidemic or a natural disaster. Medecins Sans Frontiers’ involvement across its varying regions and their attempt to address a broad spectrum of healthcare truly show how altruistic the organization is to individuals regardless of race, gender, or religion.

During the summer of 2013, I attended an international youth leadership camp where I met 50 Iraqi teenagers. They taught me about their culture and what their life is like in Iraq. The most important thing that I learned from them was that though we hailed from different countries, we had a lot in common. Now, whenever I hear news updates on the Middle East, it is not just another conflict in a foreign land but a conflict that directly affects my friends. In a way, I feel obligated to learn about what the Middle East is going through. Since I started my semester abroad, I have gained an increased interest in immigration and I would like to study the Middle Eastern refugee crisis more in-depth. Researching alongside a professor at another college would allow me to gain insight on the crisis that I wouldn’t achieve on my own. Though this will be the first time I will have researched with a professor, I look forward to offering my skills and discovering what there is to learn about the Middle Eastern refugee

I have been working in Southeast Asia in the NGO sector for more than 4 years. I am currently based in Myanmar, working at ActionAid as Strategic Engagement Adviser, possessing demonstrable skills on communication, fundraising, project management, national and regional advocacy with thematic knowledge on migrants’ and refugees’ right, gender and governance. In various capacities, I have done research on issues of Myanmar migrants and refugees in Thailand, with the particular focus on the interrelation with Myanmar's transition and its impact to the country’s development.

In the aftermath of the WWII and the beginning of the Cold War tensions, the UNHCR began its mandate of addressing the issues of refugees as defined by the 1951 Geneva Convention with thirty-three staff and a $30,000 budget (Feller, 2001:131). Reflecting post-colonial European hegemonic structure and ignoring the upheavals of decolonisation in the ‘Third World,’ geographic and temporal limitations were embedded within the definition of a refugee. The convention recognises persons displaced before the first of January 1951 within the European geographical region (Nygh, 2000 and Loescher et al., 2008). Thus, the mandate of the UNHCR was apparently limited to the protection of refugees displaced before the drafting of the 1951 Geneva Convention and only within Europe. At this time, because of the strategic aims of the Cold War period and demand for labour, “refugees were welcomed noncitizens in many [European] countries” (Feller, 2001:129). In other words, the refugee regime was designed to provide geopolitical and economic responses to mass displacement due to Nazism and communism.