The AFOSI website is organized just like any other official Air Force website. There are tabs at the top for Photos, New, Library, Units, Questions, and such. There is also a latest new box with articles relating to Air Force topics such as Happy 68th Birthday Air Force and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. There is a box with just AFOSI Highlights that have to deal with specifically AFOSI like joining AFOSI and an anonymous tip line. The tip line brings you to a form you can fill out with…
Franklin P. Jones, a reporter, once said, “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” Mr. Jones has many great quotes about bravery but this one perfectly describes the bravery required to be a successful hero. Many heroes feel afraid at one time or another, but the key to being “brave” is not letting the fear allow a hero to make an emotional or irrational decision. Farida Nekzad, Atalanta, and Odysseus are brave because they did not let their fear prohibit them from rising to…
can expect a flood of climate change refugees. A large array of actors including politicians, government agencies, journalists and activists will respond to news about migration and immigration in a number of ways, through religious, ideological and emotional lenses. What will determine refugee assimilation processes and treatment in foreign lands depends on a number and quality of frames harnessed by agencies and media groups involving climate change and refugees as separate yet intertwining…
REFUGEES: ACCESSING SERVICES Definition of Refugees and accessing services What is a refugee? According to the World Relief (2015) a refugee is someone who has fled their home country and cannot return home do to a fear of prosecution based on countless factors. There are numerous refugees that enter the United States and remarkedly some of them will not be able to access all of the services they need to survive. For some of the people that live here illegally they are afraid to find help for…
be the Syrian refugee crisis. My main question is what is the most effective and reasonable way we can aid this crisis and help the refugees, without serious consequences? Summarize: In “Regulating Human Rights: International Organizations, Flexible Standards, and International Refugee Law” Jill Goldenziel discuss possible solutions in further improving how refugees are currently handled. Currently there are international laws and treaties which enforce numerous details. This includes who can…
accepting refugees is the evidence that host countries are suffering from the bombardment of the refugees and as a result, their livelihood has taken a toll. In the article “Development and Protection Challenges of the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” Zetter, Roger, and Ruaudel focus primarily on the negative effects the Syrian refugee crisis has had on the neighboring countries to Syria. Jordan and Lebanon already are filled with Iraqi and Palestinian refugees, and with thousands of Syrian refugees…
Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (later called the Refugee Convention) was grounded in Article 14 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of human rights which recognizes “the right of persons to seek asylum from persecution in other countries,” (United Nations, 1951, p. 2). The Convention led to the definition of a refugee…
Refugees have existed ever since there has been conflict in the world; both World Wars, displacement of Jews and Palestinians, the India and Pakistan border conflict, and even the aftermath of Japanese imperialism. Although refugees have been a huge issue throughout history, the recent crisis has brought over one million refugees into Europe in just 2015. Today, more than 65 million people are forced out of their home country as a result of persecution, violence or natural disasters. The…
protection and Assistance of internally displaced persons in Africa. Finally, the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) provides protection and humanitarian assistance to IDPs and stateless individuals in addition to 1951 Convention refugees. However, the international human rights law applies to all situations, whether during peacetime or war, and they apply regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, citizenship, language, sexual orientation, and physical or…
Refugees: debunking the myths of the European Refugee Crisis. In 2015 Europe received as many as 1 Million refugees escaped war-torn nations by sea to reach Europe and this is only those that came across the Mediterranean Sea. Germany took in 1.1 million refugees in 2015, in one year Germanys population increased my 1.1 million people. This means millions more people in need of a home, food, water and access to their basic rights. This means that European countries are trying to accommodate for…