世界难民所

World Refugees Warehousing

世界难民所

 

Each year the United States resettles thousands of refugees approved by the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, and helps them become new Americans through a network of resettlement agencies. The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, or USCRI, is one of those agencies that participate in receiving and assisting refugees.  Lavinia Limon, formerly¹ head of the office of Refugee Resettlement under the Clinton Administration, is the president of USCRI.

 

Lavinia Limon: Every year we publish the world refugee survey, we publish the forty-third annual survey last year.  The new one will come out this May and in that survey we saw that there were around 12-million refugees in the world.  The majority of the refugees are in Africa at about three-point-two million, but Europe has eight hundred and eighty-five thousand. The East Asia-Pacific has nine hundred and fifty thousand.  The Middle East has, I’m sorry, the Middle East actually has more than Africa…. four-point-three million refugees, South and Central Asia one-point-eight million and the Americas and the Caribbean at about a half a million so the total is twelve million refugees.

 

Focusing on Africa MS. Limon says the continent is a very difficult place for refugees.

 

Lavinia Limon: The principal sources of refugees the last survey showed that Sudan has about six hundred thousand refugees, Congo four hundred and forty thousand, Liberia three hundred and eighty-five, Rwanda three hundred and fifty-five and Angola three hundred and twenty three although that seems to be resolving itself and of course there will being hosted in Kenya and Uganda and Tanzania and the Ivory Coast. You know, their neighbors are bearing the burden of this, but clearly refugees are disappointed endemic to Africa.

 

Most of the world's 12 million refugees do not enjoy the rights recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, according to USCRI's Lavinia Limon. She says millions of refugees currently are being warehoused.

 

Lavinia Limon: By that term we need people who have been denied their rights, their specified³ in the 1951 U.N. convention on the rights of refugees and those rights include the right to work, the right to own property, the right to intellectual property, the right to attend elementary school, the freedom of movement and at least seven million refugees in the world have been denied those rights for ten years or more.

 

As tragic⁴ as things are for refugees around the world, Lavinia Limon says President Bush's proposed budget for fiscal⁵ year 2006, is a glimmer⁶ of hope. She says it reflects the generosity⁷ of the American people and the historic tradition of protecting refugees.

 

Lavinia Limon: We are very pleased with the budget of the president.  He is requesting eight hundred and ninety-three million dollars for overseas refugee assistance.  It is about one hundred and twenty-nine million more than what we are spending this year.  Also he requested five hundred and fifty-two million for refugee resettlement domestically and that also, I mean, is a slight increase so we are pleased. Now we understand we have been working very hard to educate this administration around refugees and that became particularly difficult after nine-eleven as you might image.  The refugee program essentially⁸ ground to a halt in terms of refugee admissions to the United States. And it has taken these past almost three years to do this education and get people see where assisting refugees is really quite central to the values that America holds dear and when the president speaks about extending freedom throughout the world we hope that he and his budget would reflect it, that he would see freedom for refugees as something we could actually make happen.

 

Lavinia Limon of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants further states that the United States, the world's largest provider of refugee assistance can lead the way towards changing donor⁹ practices. We invite your comments on this topic. Our E-mail address is [email protected].

 

For Point of View, I’m Yeheyes Wuhib.

 

注释：

Caribbean [kAri5bi(:)En] n. 加勒比海

Angola [AN5^EulE] n. 安哥拉

endemic [en5demik] n. 地方病

warehouse² [5wZEhaus] vt. 贮入仓库

fiscal year <美>财政年度

glimmer [5^limE] n. 闪光

slight [slait] adj. 轻微的，微小的

halt [hC:lt] n. 停止，暂停，中断

1 formerly   

adv.从前，以前

参考例句：

• We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
• This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。

2 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。

3 specified   

adj.特定的

参考例句：

• The architect specified oak for the wood trim. 那位建筑师指定用橡木做木饰条。
• It is generated by some specified means. 这是由某些未加说明的方法产生的。

4 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

5 fiscal   

adj.财政的，会计的，国库的，国库岁入的

参考例句：

• The increase of taxation is an important fiscal policy.增税是一项重要的财政政策。
• The government has two basic strategies of fiscal policy available.政府有两个可行的财政政策基本战略。

6 glimmer   

v.发出闪烁的微光；n.微光，微弱的闪光

参考例句：

• I looked at her and felt a glimmer of hope.我注视她，感到了一线希望。
• A glimmer of amusement showed in her eyes.她的眼中露出一丝笑意。

7 generosity   

n.大度，慷慨，慷慨的行为

参考例句：

• We should match their generosity with our own.我们应该像他们一样慷慨大方。
• We adore them for their generosity.我们钦佩他们的慷慨。

8 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

9 donor   

n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体

参考例句：

• In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
• The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。