Desperate Measures and Humanitarian Crisis

internally displaced persons: Others will risk their lives again — often at the mercy of human traffickers and a treacherous sea — trying to find a new home, according to CBC. The desperate measures they take, and the extraordinary efforts of countries to keep them out, make for dramatic stories, which highlight a small corner of a worldwide humanitarian crisis. Most of those who survive will join the anonymous misery of some 50 million people living in camps for refugees and internally displaced persons, and many will stay there for decades. Malaysia, Indonesia to temporarily allow boat migrants to stay Burma refuses blame for Rohingya migrant crisis About 1,200 people have drowned this year alone trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe; thousands camped out in northern France, hoping to get on a truck heading for Britain; and children — over 20,000 in 2014 — sent alone across the Mexican border into the U.S., are just a few recent examples. It is usually an equation with fear on one side, hope on the other and ruthless smugglers in the middle. Each crisis unfolds as if governed by a scientific law that dictates that people will take any risk to move from danger and poverty to a place that might be better. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.