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The exposed refugees might be in serious danger.
Of course, this is not to say that collecting data on refugees is fundamentally wrong.
The reality is that many governments could not justify accepting refugees without a thorough vetting process – and that demands data.
Does collecting them genuinely advance the objectives of providing support to refugees?
Are the benefits of using biometric data significant enough that refugees should have no alternative?
(According to a 2013 report, many refugees are indeed concerned about providing biometric data.)
While there is no single established approach to undertaking a PIA, experience has produced some best practices, comprising a set of privacy principles and criteria, according to which systems for collecting, storing, and share refugees’ data should be assessed.
It is not a solution to the privacy challenge faced by refugees and their advocates, but it is an important step in the right direction.
Persuading China to impose potentially regime-destroying sanctions will also require economic pledges, with the entire international community – especially the US, Japan, and South Korea – committing to share the mammoth costs of sheltering refugees and rebuilding North Korea’s economy.
A Lifeline for European SolidarityMADRID – A human tragedy is unfolding in the Mediterranean, with hundreds of thousands of refugees risking – and, in many cases, losing – their lives for the chance to find refuge in Europe.
Refugees as Weapons of Mass DestructionCAMBRIDGE – In the summer of 2015, former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper looked set to win his fourth consecutive election, scheduled for that October.
A month earlier, he had considered prohibiting the use of the niqab in public services, raising suspicion about the true motive behind the decision on refugees.
For countries hosting refugees from these conflicts, the challenges have been acute.
Large influxes of refugees put downward pressure on a host country’s wages, exacerbating poverty and increasing social, economic, and political tensions.
For example, by buying more exports from host countries or helping to finance health-care and education sectors, donors could improve economic conditions for conflict-neighboring states and, in the process, create job opportunities for refugees.
For this to pay off, however, host countries will first need to remove restrictions on refugees’ ability to work legally.
Employment might seem obvious, but most MENA host countries currently bar refugees from holding jobs in the formal sector (Jordan is one exception, having issued some 87,000 work permits to Syrian refugees since 2016).
As a result, many refugees are forced to find work in the informal economy, where they can become vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
But evidence from outside the region demonstrates that when integrated properly, refugees are more of a benefit than a drain on host countries’ labor markets.
A second issue that must be addressed is protecting refugees’ “identity,” both in terms of actual identification documents and cultural rights.
For these reasons, efforts must be made to improve refugees’ digital connectivity, to ensure that they have access to their data and to their communities.
This would strengthen the delivery of food aid, enhance refugee mobility, and improve access to online-payment services, making it easier for refugees to earn and save money.
Improved access to communication networks would also help refugees stay connected with family and friends.
By bringing the Internet to refugees, donor states would be supporting programs like “digital classrooms” and online health-care clinics, services that can be difficult to deliver in refugee communities.
But this idea could also run up against resistance, not least because the countries that would attract the most refugees are those that already have stronger economies, and therefore need EU funding the least.
Countries that are undesirable to refugees, owing to high cyclical unemployment, would benefit disproportionately from such a policy, especially in the short term.
Anglophiles admired Britain for many reasons, including its relative openness to refugees from illiberal continental regimes.
Europe is already struggling to accommodate refugees from the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Under the auspices of the UN Security Council, negotiations were initiated, with the goal of resolving the conflict and determining the future status not just of Western Sahara, but also of the thousands of refugees in camps in Algeria.
Over the past decade 90 people died in anti-immigrant attacks in Germany; and these attacks appear to be directly related, first to the collapse of the East German economy after re-unification, and second to a huge wave of refugees, especially from the Balkans.
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