Clustered in tends or abandoned buildings. Tents or abandoned buildings. In turkey 21 camps in 10 provinces, 200,000 Syrian Refugees, thousands more living outside the camps. Northern iraq, these syrians find refuge in a park. Egypt, where more and more syrians seek safety or a route to europe. More than two million refugees, syria is hemorrhaging women, children, and men. Inside syria, over six million displaced. More than half the human flood leaving syria are children. One million children, 70 under the age of 12. Children like this one, only two days old when her family fled to iraq. Or this 4yearold, her face scarred from a life saved. Or this one, whose hope is to go to school. Or this child who works to feed his family. The tide does not subdied. Last august over 40,000 refugees cross add temporary pontoon bridge in Northern Iraq in just one week. Recently outside lebanon, 6,000 new arrivals in a matter of days. In jordan, refugees flooded in in an overnight crossing. Borders ar
Photos so he show that there are Syrian Refugees on every square turf of lebanon. He said they cant take any more people. Whats the likelihood in 2014 of lebanon closing their borders to Syrian Refugees . Im going to try would you agree that would be a bad situation . To keep that from happening. Trying im trying to plan for the worst case. The worst Case Scenario would be a lot more refugees streaming out of syria. The amazing thing to me is that not more have. They clearly are trying to stay put. I think the worst Case Scenario would be if they had no place to go. Whats the likelihood of lebanon and jordan closing their borders because their countries sovereignty and security is at risk, to Syrian Refugees in 2014 . We have seen that what is happening is that the borders have already been moved from being open in most cases to being managed. Could you give me a plan, lets assume for the worst now, what would our response be as the world and as a nation if in 2014, god for bid, the le
Trillions more in relief as republicans say anymore federal funding will have to be narrowly tailored and not make it more the burden of for people who stay home rather than returning to work. Gop senator john kennedy joins us in minutes for that other piece in the New York Times that had us pretty fired up tonight. Senior correspondent Rick Leventhal kicking off talks with our current covert restrictions are playing out across america. State and local governments are getting tougher in the fight against coronavirus rubric is threatening beer fines, arrests and shutdowns but stories of people rebelling keep popping up. In louisiana 64yearold man refused to put a mascot inside a walmart. After saying you cant wear make me wear a mask he backed his car into a Police Officer twice and faces multiple charges included aggravated assault. In st. Petersburg a man was busted after punching another passenger honestly bus in the face after a mask wearing dispute. In new York Governor Andrew Cuom
Principles internationalism. Im delighted to be cohosting todays event with the diversity in leadership program. And with the support of our Employee Resource Group on the topic. It is wonderful to see so many of you here in person at csis. I we host todays event for lgbtqai plus lgbtqia people at a moment of great dichotomy. Through the support of advocates, protection of rights around the world is increasing in many places. We have seen bright spot that stand out as a testament to those activists over the year. In december, the Chilean Parliament passed a samesex bill, the 31st country in the world to do so. This month, the thai cabinet endorsed a Civil Partnership bill. Argentina, colombia and the u. S. Government now recognize nonbinary identities. The Kuwait Constitutional Court struck down a law used by Security Forces to enable abusive transgender individuals. But for every bright spot, we see many continued attacks on lgbtqia plus rights, we see what in ghana, and in places lik
Good afternoon, welcome to the center for international studies. Im the director of the Human Rights Initiative im delighted to be cohosting todays event with the diversity in Leadership International Affairs Program here at c it and the support of our Employee Resource Group on this topic. It is one difficult to see so many people in person in the Building Back at csis. We also welcome those who are joining us via the livestream. We host todays event on the advancement of the rights of lgbtq i a plus people through u. S. Foreign policy at an interesting moment. A moment of great dichotomy. Through the inference of advocates and the support of governments, protection of rights around the world is increasing in many places. We have seen many bright spots that stand out as a testament to efforts by those advocates and activists over the past year. In december, parliament overwhelmingly passed a samesex marriage bill. The 31st country in the world to do so. Just this month, the cabinet en