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In Somalia, the EU is leading efforts to promote stability, in order to facilitate the voluntary return and reintegration of refugees.
Bordering South Sudan, Uganda, and Ethiopia, Turkana has long been host to many refugees.
With new waves of South Sudanese refugees entering Kalobeyei, the township is introducing a model that promotes cooperation and resource-sharing between refugees and their host communities, while providing both groups with better access to education, health care, and other services.
At the Refugee Solidarity Summit in Kampala, Uganda, the EU pledged €85 million ($100 million) to support a progressive refugee policy, which offers refugees opportunities to nurture their skills and integrate into local communities.
Such an effort must include broad support for investment in the necessary social and economic infrastructure, as well as promotion of entrepreneurship among refugees.
It also demands sustained political leadership focused on ending conflicts and building inclusive societies in refugees’ home countries.
With the world’s support, refugees can be empowered to develop their skills not just for their own benefit, but for that of their host countries, too.
For starters, it has withdrawn funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the UN agency that provides reproductive health-care and family-planning services for refugees and other women affected by humanitarian crises.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, all countries combined have offered a chance to start a new life to approximately the same number of Iraqi refugees as flee the country in just five days.
Two million Iraqi refugees are scattered around the region, the great majority of them in Jordan and Syria, with smaller numbers in Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt.
Because they are urban refugees – not housed in tents, but rather blending in with the local population in the host countries – they are easily ignored.
Last month, I traveled to four countries in the Middle East to meet refugees and learn about their stories and options.
Refugees who are in the country of first asylum usually face three possible choices: return to their homeland, try to integrate in the host country, or be resettled to a third country.
Helping them to cope with the influx of refugees is necessary, but it is not a durable solution.
The United States is a bad example: only 692 refugees have been accepted since the invasion – roughly the number of Iraqis who are killed every week.
In February, the Bush administration announced that it will offer resettlement this year to 7,000 Iraqi refugees.
The Iraqi refugees are a crisis that cannot be ignored: the international community must alleviate the burden on the countries in the region, while offering resettlement opportunities to many more of the most vulnerable Iraqis.
The plight of millions of refugees constitutes not just a humanitarian tragedy, but also an economic and strategic burden to countries in the region and in Europe.
Although we refugees, immigrants, exiles, and outcasts do not boast ad infinitum that “we are the best,” as many Americans do, we still believe that the US remains a powerful guarantor of freedom and democracy, and we consider its incoherence part of its liberty.
It would apply to everyone, regardless of nationality or statelessness, including refugees and asylum seekers, and it would place a positive obligation on states to “promote and fulfill” the right to equality.
Lesbos’s Ghosts, Europe’s DisgraceATHENS – In 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees landed on Greece’s island shores.
Months later, after managing to board a trafficker’s flimsy vessel on Turkey’s Aegean coast, he found himself shipwrecked, surrounded by dozens of drowned fellow refugees.
Refugees like Shabbir faced a minimum of nine months before their first encounter with any official who would receive their asylum application.
Within the camp, a small makeshift office, surrounded by more barbed wire and hundreds of despairing refugees, would admit one or two per hour for their first interview.
In September alone, another 2,238 refugees arrived in Lesbos, despite Turkey’s attempts to cut the flow.
By spreading fear and loathing,” he says, “they wish to ghettoize refugees in Europe, to cut them off from European societies, to make them victims of European xenophobia.
Some 2,500 years ago, Sappho of Lesbos wrote:Their heart grew coldthey let their wings downTo prevent that from happening to humanists across Europe, we need a new movement to campaign for refugees’ release from odious conditions and a swift asylum process.
It may also be the reason why countries have refused to empower refugees, whether Syrians or Venezuelans, with rights.
Our tradition of being open to refugees is not new.
In the new century, refugees have come increasingly from the Middle East and the Horn of Africa.
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