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Many of today’s refugees have already been displaced for decades, with new generations – both kids and grandkids – born and raised in sprawling refugee camps like Kenya’s Dadaab.
All that is needed is to enable such funding to go not just to poor states, but also to poor stateless refugees.
Once refugees are made eligible for IDA grants, the World Bank could quickly raise funds – as much as $5 billion annually – by issuing bonds, using its recently awarded triple-A credit rating.
One critical question remains: Who is accountable for the funds delivered to refugees?
In the case of refugees, however, other host-country organizations would have to fulfill this role.
It would not be difficult for the World Bank to appoint a lean secretariat to formalize a network of the most effective public, private, and non-governmental organizations on the ground to receive and allocate the grants for refugees.
It could also include United Nations agencies like the Food and Agriculture Organization, which has piloted refugee cash-for-work employment programs that are helping to rehabilitate much-needed agricultural infrastructure in host countries, while empowering refugees economically.
BanQu is an organization using blockchain encryption to support an “economic identity platform” – a universal, borderless virtual identity card that could keep track of vital information for all 21.3 million refugees, including accounts of skills training, employment and education history, lists of past financial transactions, and health records.
Rather than creating opportunities for refugees to settle and succeed in new countries, the system meant to address the current crisis is hampering progress, generating discontent, and compounding the pressure on already-strained governments.
Now is the time to build a new system on the foundations of the old – one that creates real opportunities for refugees to thrive.
Theories about China’s attitude toward North Korea often begin and end with the view that what the country fears, above all, is an inflow of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse – a spillover that could rend the delicate ethnic quilt of China’s northeast provinces.
The problem is that, while some Chinese do worry about refugees, “China” cannot be regarded as a collective noun with a singular view about anything; like any complex modern state, China contains many different views about many different issues.
Of course, there are those in Beijing who worry day and night about North Korean refugees; but there are also many in Beijing, Shanghai, and elsewhere who worry about the chronic crisis that North Korea’s periodic outbursts cause in an otherwise stable region of the world.
Xi’s comments obviously extend beyond a concern about refugees.
Palestinian refugees in exile and other Palestinians living in the diaspora were not allowed to vote.
Refugees must register in the member country where they enter, but the Greek government cannot process the cases.
Some 60,000 refugees who sought to register have been put into detention facilities where conditions are inhumane.
Our Duty to Migrants and RefugeesDHAKA – The indefinite ban on Syrian refugees imposed by the United States has cast a bright spotlight on one of the great challenges of our time.
What should we do with the millions of refugees fleeing war and persecution around the world?
In this political climate, some politicians have tried to downplay their legal and humanitarian obligations toward refugees and migrants by lumping them together, implying that none of them deserves protection.
Others, meanwhile, have reluctantly acknowledged their countries’ duty to accept refugees, but then declare that all economic migrants must leave.
Indeed, as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, world leaders identified refugees, the internally displaced, and migrants as vulnerable populations that deserve protection.
Specifically, they pledged to cooperate in order “to ensure safe, orderly, and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees, and of displaced persons.”
And yet no one can deny the challenge posed by irregular flows of migrants and refugees – who often travel together in a form of “mixed migration.”
People who embark on irregular journeys are extremely vulnerable, regardless of whether they are refugees or migrants.
Ultimately, the challenges that migrants and refugees face, and the help they need from governments and the international community, are very similar, though, of course, international law assures refugees additional protections, including non-refoulement.
Last September, world leaders attending the UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants recognized these similarities for the first time.
At the end of the summit, delegates adopted the New York Declaration, which includes commitments to address migrants and refugees’ common needs and challenges, and outlines processes for developing global compacts to share responsibility for helping refugees, and to ensure safe, orderly, and regular migration.
We have a unique opportunity to develop a comprehensive framework for addressing human mobility in all its dimensions – whether refugees and migrants who are forced to move, and who may resort to irregular means or smuggling, or those who go through official channels in search of a better life.
The United States Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which prevents immigrants, refugees, and visa holders from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen from entering the country.
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