Refugees
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Most notably, in 2015, when the European Union was being inundated by
refugees
from conflict zones like Syria, she introduced Europe’s most compassionate refugee policy – a decision that has invited considerable criticism and political pressure.
But the plight of child
refugees
is only one reason why a new approach to children’s rights is needed.
The surge of
refugees
in Europe, especially Syrian asylum-seekers in 2015, led to an explosion of populist sentiment, with political leaders increasingly calling for borders to be closed.
She set a powerful example by agreeing to accept one million
refugees.
The capture of the camp leaves 18,000
refugees
at risk of slaughter, unable to access food, water, and vital services.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the terrible spectacle of thousands of Syrian refugees, crammed into rickety vessels, attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
And yet national governments throughout the EU, it seems, are too afraid of – or too beholden to – anti-immigrant sentiment among their electorates to show common humanity to
refugees.
It can be difficult for ordinary citizens to feel hopeful when governments and international institutions have been unable to stop the war and refuse to protect
refugees.
It is in this spirit that I call on people around the world to pressure their governments to implement policies that protect and shelter Syrian war
refugees.
Beyond preventing Somalia’s violence from spilling over into Kenya and undermining its security and its tourist-driven economy, such a buffer state could be forced to absorb the half-million Somali
refugees
who now live in Dadaab’s refugee camps.
The core of the problem – and what has made it an international issue rather than just a domestic Australian problem – is that the would-be
refugees
(mainly from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, and Sri Lanka) have been dying in harrowing numbers.
It accepted 135,000 Vietnamese
refugees
in the 1970’s – a much higher total on a per capita basis than any other country, including the US – and ever since has maintained its status as one of the top two or three recipient countries for resettlement generally.
Whether parties to the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of
Refugees
or not, these states agreed to work with each other and the UN High Commissioner for
Refugees
on all of the key issues.
Wars and conflict produce millions of new
refugees.
For example, the role of the Arab middle class has been notably muted in efforts to support Syrian
refugees.
Indeed, while millions of Arabs tune in weekly to watch and vote for their favorite singers on the Arabic version of The Voice and Arab Idol, a fund-raising campaign for the benefit of Syrian
refugees
has yet to be organized.
In that case, we would not only reap dishonor, but also, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, raise to extreme levels all of our present dangers, starting with a dramatic increase in the tide of refugees, most of whom have fled Syria as a direct consequence of the world’s nonintervention.
After prolonged euro and sovereign-debt crises polarized and radicalized the continent, creating a deep north-south rift, the arrival of hundreds of thousands of
refugees
has pitted east (plus the United Kingdom) against west.
Russia is also involved in another serious challenge to European security and stability: the crisis in Syria that is producing the hundreds of thousands of
refugees
now flocking to Europe.
But, throughout Europe, the
refugees
faced rejection.
On June 6, 1938, as preparations for the conference were underway, the US State Department received a letter concerning 51 Austrian Jewish
refugees
stranded on a small boat in the international waters of the Danube.
The outcome of the meeting was clear: Europe, North America, and Australia would not accept significant numbers of these
refugees.
Many of the countries that refused to take in suffering
refugees
were themselves, in due course, occupied and brutalized by the Nazis – and desperate for the compassion that they denied the Jews in July 1938.
There was no transportation for people without cars or money, facilities to house and care for
refugees
were insufficient, there were no forces in place to deliver desperately needed supplies or to secure order, and there was nowhere near the number of boats, helicopters, and other craft necessary to rescue the stranded.
In the absence of such leadership, the Syrian crisis is likely to have a contagious effect, as refugees, arms, and militant Islamists cross borders in greater numbers than they have since the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Even if they refuse to be drawn in, they face an influx of
refugees
and other forms of contagion.
According to some studies, at least 137,000 civilians have died violently in Afghanistan and Iraq in the last ten years; among Iraqis alone, there are 1.8 million
refugees
and 1.7 million internally displaced people.
Another 7.5 million have lost their homes or fled the country, becoming
refugees.
Europe’s Secret BailoutMUNICH – While the world worries about Donald Trump, Brexit, and the flow of
refugees
from Syria and other war-torn countries, the European Central Bank continues to work persistently and below the public radar on its debt-restructuring plan – also known as quantitative easing (QE) – to ease the burden on over-indebted eurozone countries.
Jongen described Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to give shelter in Germany to large numbers of
refugees
from Middle Eastern wars as “an act of violence” toward the German people.
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