What do people fleeing situations of violence, whether in Central America or Syria, or fleeing economic or government breakdowns, such as those in Venezuela and Libya, want?
Yet one of the body's oldest arms, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), deals with people fleeing situations that often match that description: war, genocide, ethnic cleansing and political persecution.
Since Trump's xenophobic order was issued, the potential for my family's nightmare to be repeated in the lives of other refugees and asylum seekers has increased considerably, particularly for those who are fleeing situations in which waiting even one more day can be a matter of life and death.
Too many view these people, who fled terrible situations only to survive, as inherently different from non-refugees ― as people to feel bad for, at best, and to view as criminal, at worst. .
"These children have fled horrible situations, travelled through difficult journeys, but in the Child-Friendly Space, we see them laugh, smile, play and be children again.
They prefer to believe that they're helping poor people flee difficult situations at home.
"The UK can do better than this and do more for those fleeing unimaginable situations in countries such as Syria and Iraq".
Like others who entered the country illegally, most of the Chinese were fleeing dire situations in their homeland, said Mr. Chan, the federal court interpreter.
While human rights groups understand why women would want to flee bad situations, they worry that doing so could put them in grave danger.
The attorney general, George Brandis, was on the panel and I wanted to challenge his government's destructive and disastrous $34m cut to the funding of community legal centres – a front line for women fleeing violent situations.
