They say an increasing number of "protracted refugees" living in centres in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq will attempt the treacherous journey to Europe because they cannot offer their families a life or a future in the camps.
The country chapters in Humanitarian Action for Children 2011 show the impact of humanitarian emergencies – some short-term, many of them protracted – on the lives and dignity of children and families.
Then there's legal loan sharks and rip-off loan firms – those great beneficiaries from Britain's protracted collapse in living standards – like Everyday Loans, run by Tory donor Henry Angest.
More than half a million people living in protracted displacement within Myanmar, as the result of decades of bitter armed conflict, were unable to cast their ballots.
There was a reason, of course, why so many gay men my age and older seemed intent on living a protracted adolescence: We had been cheated of our actual adolescence.
The government has succeeded in recent weeks and months in reaching surrender deals with rebels living under protracted siege – in al-Waer, a rebellious Homs neighbourhood, and Darayya, a Damascus suburb that relented last month after a four-year siege.
Dispossessed pastoralists generally reconstitute herds only in the long term, which may be compared with the time required for refugees living in protracted situations to regain their subsistence strategies and cultural identity (Khalif and Oba [2013]; McCabe [1987]).
In Iraq, as of the end of 2012, there are 2.1 million people living in protracted displacement, their world unraveled because of the US occupation and inter-ethnic strife.
Vulnerable and food insecure people living in protracted crisis situations deserve fewer words and more action.
Spaniards have not only been living under a protracted recession.
