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Germany unilaterally suspended application of the EU’s asylum rules and pledged to accept all arriving Syrian refugees.
But Merkel’s failure to offer those refugees safe passage has exacerbated the chaos.
But among the many challenges that refugees must confront while they await resettlement, finding access to high-quality physical and mental health care tops the list.
Those contributions are highly relevant to refugees.
The UN estimates that there are more than 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, and that more refugees live in formal and informal encampments than ever before.
Although governments and NGOs have made efforts to provide basic health care to refugees, they have struggled to do so reliably.
The first is the classroom, where we should continue to raise awareness – particularly in the field of biomedical engineering – of the health-care challenges that refugees face.
Second, governments and NGOs that work with refugees can do more to include medical engineering professionals in their efforts.
To apply biomedical engineering to refugee health challenges, students, experts, and practitioners need to familiarize themselves with conditions in refugee settlements, and deepen their understanding of the complex traumas that afflict refugees.
The international community has proved incapable of ending the crises that are currently sending refugees in search of safety.
The Enemy in SyriaMADRID – The Geneva II Middle East peace conference, to be held on January 22, will take place against a backdrop of singularly appalling numbers: Syria’s brutal civil has left an estimated 130,000 dead, 2.3 million refugees registered in neighboring countries, and some four million more internally displaced.
Lebanon has taken in more than 800,000 Syrian refugees.
Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.
The first is to agree on a fair allocation of refugees within Europe; despite their vast numbers, these desperate people must be provided with shelter, food, and support.
The second challenge is to start the process of integrating refugees into Europe’s societies and economies.
Some refugees will find it relatively easy to find jobs.
Many will argue that refugees who lack the skills that the economy demands will be harder to integrate than other newcomers.
In order to placate Hong Kong’s restive population – which included many refugees from China – a “one country, two systems” policy was embedded in the region’s constitution, promising Hong Kong “a high degree of autonomy,” except in foreign and defense affairs for 50 years.
Ah yes, in a world in which ten million children die every year from avoidable, poverty-related causes, and greenhouse-gas emissions threaten to create hundreds of millions of climate refugees, we should be visiting Paris boutiques and feeling the clothes.
Indeed, although the Middle East and North Africa is home to just 5% of the world’s population, it has produced more than one-third of its refugees.
But for young refugees missing out on an education, the crisis can also be tracked by an irreversible metric: the passage of time.
At the end of 2016, there were an estimated 11.6 million refugees experiencing “protracted displacement”: they have been away from their homes for more than five years and have no “immediate prospects” of return.
Of these, 4.1 million have been refugees for at least 20 years, longer than the amount of time the average person spends in school.
Unfortunately, for many of the 6.4 million school-age refugees currently under the mandate of the UN Refugee Agency, access to education remains a luxury.
About a third of young people around the world pursue a college degree or advanced training; but, despite scholarships and other incentives, the percentage of refugees who do so is a mere 1%.
In September 2016, politicians, diplomats, officials, and activists from around the world gathered at the UN to chart a path forward for addressing the plight of the world’s refugees.
But, despite overwhelming support for the New York Declaration, and for the principles set out in SDG 4, young refugees remain in danger of being left behind.
Classroom learning should be given high priority, to help provide a protective and stable environment for the youngest refugees.
Because education not only imparts life skills, but also promotes resilience and self-reliance, and helps address the psychological and social needs of children impacted by conflict, it is a basic need for refugees.
Refugees, like all young people around the world, deserve a quality education – one that follows an accredited curriculum, and is based on a rigorous system of evaluation and advancement.
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