Occupation: Portuguese Politician Birth: April 30, 1949
When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the heal….
The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Repub….
I think that it's very important to have the United States' engagement in many situations we have around the world, be it in Syria, be it in the Afri….
We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely..
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent histo….
...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victim….
Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary cour….
While every refugee's story is different and their anguish personal, they all share a common thread of uncommon courage - the courage not only to sur….
What I think it's important to recognize in today's world is that all of our societies are multiethnic, multi-religious and multicultural. And that i….
Now, it's high time for all those that have an influence on the parties with the conflict to understand that it is in the interest of everybody to pu….
We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that w….
It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The cont….