Refugees
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It has a free press and an open society; it welcomes migrants and refugees; it has a thirst for new ideas and a knack for innovation.
It can no more tap into popular hostility against immigrants and
refugees
than the liberal center can.
For China, the North Korea problem cannot be reduced to concerns about regime collapse and a resulting wave of
refugees.
The assumption is that only real pressure will finally force Sudan’s government to embrace the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force, negotiate with the West, disband the feared Janjaweed militia, allow
refugees
from the country’s brutal civil war to return to their villages, and make peace with Southern rebels.
Factions within the regime might prove supportive of new policies aimed at tempering the climate of violence in Sudan, decreasing its trade dependency on China, improving conditions for refugees, and lowering international tensions.
The Platform for Education in Emergencies Response will connect college-ready Syrian
refugees
with refugee-ready colleges.
One casualty of that brutal enterprise, apart from the roughly 100,000 Iraqis who have died and the millions more who have become refugees, is trust in the US as a force for good.
There may be things that Western powers can do to alleviate the suffering, by offering aid to refugees, for example, or use the latest technology to keep lines of information open.
This would help to stem the flow of
refugees
– and the spillover of violence – to neighboring countries, particularly Lebanon and Iraq.
Last month, US President Barack Obama, in setting out his broader foreign-policy stance, spoke of Syria’s three evils – brutal military tactics, the terrorist threat from the opposition, and the need to support
refugees.
Over the past three years, at least 160,000 people have been killed, nine million displaced, and three million
refugees
have flooded into neighboring countries.
The Norwegian Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee, for example, are doing important work, delivering cross-border humanitarian supplies into Syria and helping
refugees
and host communities in four countries.
They currently aid more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, including a half-million who are internally displaced, traumatized, angry, and bewildered by the lack of outside assistance.
Jordan has more than 600,000 registered refugees, and a similar number who are unregistered; it expects a half-million more this year.
If one were to listen to these parties’ rhetoric, one might think that
refugees
and migrants are pouring into Europe unhindered.
But while the Balkans did become a highway for asylum seekers fleeing Syria for Germany and Sweden in 2015 and 2016, that route was effectively closed down when Turkey agreed to host
refugees
in exchange for EU financial aid.
In the current political environment, if Germany were to send
refugees
back to Austria, then Austria would almost certainly send them back to Italy.
Most are in fact economic migrants, but they present themselves as
refugees
because that is the only legal way to stay in Europe.
Moreover, the distribution of migrants and
refugees
in Italy tends to be concentrated around metropolitan centers that lack adequate housing, which also makes the problem seem much larger than it actually is.
But it would not change much for Italy, given that the country would still have to accept the same proportion of
refugees
as it does today.
Italy needs a better system for processing asylum applications, funneling
refugees
to available housing, and integrating them into society.
They continue to preach that the respective “taboos” of their communities, the very issues that block all efforts to make peace – in particular, the status of Jerusalem and the right of “return” to Israel for Palestinian
refugees
– are untouchable and non-negotiable.
For Lampedusa’s residents, shipwrecks involving
refugees
and migrants are a common occurrence: a week later, a boat carrying Syrian and Palestinian
refugees
capsized off the shores of the island, leaving more than 30 people dead.
In the Asia-Pacific region, hundreds of migrants and
refugees
have drowned this year in the Bay of Bengal or while trying to reach Australia.
Of course, not all migrants are
refugees
or require protection.
As an international community, we owe migrants and
refugees
greater compassion.
Large numbers of
refugees
could flee into neighboring states, which could be drawn into the conflict.
But what Guterres may not realize, or at least doesn’t publicly acknowledge, is that Uganda’s strongman president, Yoweri Museveni, has instigated or exacerbated many of the conflicts from which the
refugees
now living in his country have fled.
Roughly half of the
refugees
now in Uganda are from South Sudan, where a civil war has been raging intermittently since December 2013.
Finally, Uganda is home to hundreds of thousands of
refugees
from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where conflict has been raging since 1996.
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