Translation of "Flüchtlingsdrama" in English

At first glance, his life appears undisturbed by the refugee crisis.

The refugee situation is a tragedy of all humankind.

The refugee drama is increasingly becoming a fact of life that we forget or ignore in the German public.

Never forget that Jesus, Mary and Joseph also experienced the dramatic plight of refugees.

They would be much higher in terms of human costs, if we look at the refugee crisis in the south, but also, of course, in terms of economic and social costs, if we look at all our neighbouring countries in the south and east.

With regard to 'Human rights' , item 3 under the topical and urgent subjects of major importance, the Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left have asked for the third heading 'Sulawesi' to be replaced by a new heading 'Immigration tragedy in Ireland' .

We shall therefore take the vote on the request to add a new heading 'Immigration tragedy in Ireland' .

Whenever there was a big tragedy in the world, from the tsunami in Indonesia to the recent Ebola crisis, from the Syrian refugee crisis to Darfur, we were there, we were among the first.

The Committee calls on the EU and its Member States to treat this disaster as a wake-up call and to act now on the recommendations made in these opinions before another tragedy is allowed to occur.

The tragic situation of the refugees in the Horn of Africa is at least as bad as that of the refugees in South-East Asia.

And, thirdly, we are working to stabilise fragile states. This is a very acute task in Syria’s neighbouring states, which are hardest hit by the refugee drama.

In particular the refugee drama in the Aegis-Turkey and Balkans-Greece encouraged the countries in which it was taking place to exploit these problems in domestic and foreign policy.

The end of the Italian-backed "Mare Nostrum" rescue mission is to blame for the new refugee drama on the Mediterranean, the left-liberal daily The Independent believes: "So much for the notion that Operation Mare Nostrum was 'encouraging' migrants, an idea that now seems as wrong as it is distasteful...

Referring also to the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, Steinmeier pointed out that chaos and the lack of legal order in Libya created ideal conditions for trafficking gangs to operate.

The European powers are exploiting the refugee crisis to intervene militarily themselves in the name of "combatting causes of flight".

He emphasized that the international community must finally react to the refugee drama in South Sudan – and that all the conflict parties must show more responsibility.

On the occasion of World Refugee Day (June 20) the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) draws attention to a refugee drama in eastern Burma that is being largely ignored.

According to the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), the persecuted members of the Rohingya minority from Burma/Myanmar should be better protected and provided shelter in Asia. Further, the organization criticizes Bangladesh and India for the way these countries are addressing the refugee crisis.

The consequences of this policy do no longer only affect the region but reach Germany with the refugee crisis.

When the boat sank off the coast of Lampedusa on October 3, at least 350 illegal immigrants lost their lives in what was eventually dubbed the “Lampedusa boat disaster”.

Secondly „ Kenedi se vraca kuci - Kenedi goes back home (2003)“ by Želimir Žilnik and „No Lager Nowhere!“ (2005) show the dramatic situation of refugees trying to overcome the "fortress Europe".

The largest breeding ground for the present hostility to foreigners now being stoked by the European refugee drama is – aside from inveterate neo-Nazis and xenophobes6 – the persistent, post-democratic European mismanagement that has led to a social crisis of unknown proportions and disenchantment with politics on an unheard-of scale.

Just over two months after the Lampedusa refugee tragedy, TV images of the treatment migrants receive on the Mediterranean island have triggered an outcry.