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The Global Compact on Refugees that is currently under discussion builds on this framework with strategies to empower refugees and assist host governments.
This failure is visible today in the haunting and inexcusable plight of refugees around the world.
The test of world leaders will be whether the global compacts on refugees and migrants can achieve this.
And, rather than trying to force recalcitrant governments to accept unwanted refugees, EU authorities should pursue an orderly and safe resettlement program with willing governments.
Regardless of one’s choice in the partisan struggle between Fatah and Hamas within occupied Palestine, we must remember that economic sanctions and restrictions in delivering water, food, electricity, and fuel are causing extreme hardship among the innocent people in Gaza, about one million of whom are refugees.
Yet, although some 60% of the displaced are children, education provision for Myanmar’s youngest refugees remains woefully insufficient.
The two countries’ foreign ministers signed an agreement in November calling for the “safe and voluntary” repatriation of refugees to begin early this year.
The Bangladeshi government worries that providing education could be interpreted as a move toward granting refugees permanent residency.
Given the ferocity of the attacks on the Rohingya, and the failure of Myanmar’s leaders to provide credible security guarantees, few refugees will voluntarily return to Myanmar anytime soon.
It was actually tried – for refugees – and failed: a decision on how to allocate asylum-seekers to member states was reached, but it could not be implemented.
A comprehensive asylum policy for Europe, I believe, should establish a firm and reliable annual target of 300,000-500,000 refugees.
This is large enough to give refugees the assurance that they can eventually reach their destination, yet small enough to be accommodated even in today’s unfavorable political climate.
In the case of refugees, those determined to go to a particular destination would have to wait longer than those who accept the destination allotted to them.
This includes providing Turkey and other “frontline” countries enough financial support to allow the refugees living there to work and send their children to school; creating a common EU asylum agency and border force; addressing the humanitarian chaos in Greece; and establishing common standards across the EU for receiving and integrating refugees.
By contrast, “surge funding” would enable the EU to respond more effectively to some of the most dangerous consequences, by helping to tip the economic, political, and social dynamics away from xenophobia and disaffection toward constructive outcomes that benefit refugees and countries alike.
Virtual Education in Conflict ZonesLONDON – Educating refugees and children in conflict zones is one of the biggest challenges facing the international community.
Aid groups are already blazing the trail, using the Internet to provide Syrian refugees with educational opportunities.
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, for example, is holding an international competition – called eduapp4Syria – to develop smartphone applications that “can build foundational literacy skills in Arabic and improve psychosocial wellbeing for Syrian refugee children aged five to 10.”Similarly, in Lebanon, the Beirut-based non-profit organization Sawa for Development and Aid, facilitates the work of NaTakallam, a service that offers unemployed Syrian refugees a chance to work as Arabic tutors.
And the Silicon Valley-based NGO ReBootKAMP and UNICEF’s Raspberry Pi coding classes offer young refugees a chance to learn computer programming.
The Internet is being used to help refugees pursue higher education as well.
The European Union is funding a three-year e-learning course to prepare 3,100 Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon for university.
And the American nonprofit The University of the People has offered 10,000 Syrian refugees a tutor-supported online university education.
And in September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company would work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to provide Internet access to all refugees.
Already, UNHCR has established a task force in Jordan to explore how information and computing technology can be leveraged to provide refugees with greater access to higher education.
In September, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will convene an extraordinary summit dedicated to building a fair global system for protecting refugees and vulnerable migrants.
Indeed, the international community could have blunted last year’s crisis by providing even modest support for the three frontline countries – Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan – which together host some four million Syrian refugees.
With only around €10 billion ($10.8 billion), these countries could have provided better housing, food, and education for refugees, thereby reducing the incentive to flee to Europe.
In the United States, for example, not one of the 780,000 refugees resettled since September 11, 2001, has executed a terrorist attack.
The EU’s program to process the million refugees who arrived on its shores has succeeded in “relocating” a mere 190 of them.
The most urgent priority is to create safe and legal paths for refugees to reach Europe.
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