The United Nations Refugee Agency on Wednesday said it had announced that governments around the world, particularly in the northern part of the world. Including the US and European countriesincreasingly undermining global treaties on refugees and asylum seekers.
The harsh warning from the UNHCR appeared on the 75th anniversary of the 1951 United Nations Refugee Treaty. This is a document that defines who refugees are and outlines the responsibilities of the countries that host them.
The country tried to suspend applications for asylum – a demand for international protection by those who say they are facing war or persecution due to their religion, race, nationality, sexuality, or their political beliefs if they return home.
Luvendolini Menicdiwella, UNHCR’s protective aide in Geneva, told reporters during an online briefing from the city of Switzerland.
Historical Agreement
The Trump administration and the United States under some European countries are increasingly restricting asylum and seeking bilateral dealings with third countries. Especially in Africadeports immigrants and in some cases attempt to completely shift their asylum liability.
“Some of these contracts are actually concluded even when we’re talking,” she said without detailing. “Assie is under threat, it is under threat in countries where it can be held accountable, rather than in countries that actually host the most refugees.”
Others like Greece who saw a surge in refugees Arrived in CreteAsylum processing has temporarily stopped, including many Sudanese citizens.
“These two papers will save millions of lives in the past and millions of lives in the future,” she said, referring to the 1951 treaty related to refugee status that was adopted in the wake of the 1967 protocol that expanded the 1967 protocol to refugees around the world.
Cash crisis
The global funding crisis in the humanitarian sector has affected more than 122 million people who have fled conflict and persecution, and have fled and persecuted, authorities say. Growing anti-positive and Migration prevention Added to their anguish.
He said the arrival of refugees in the Global North “dominates the headlines,” but that “75% of the world’s more than 43 million refugees are actually hosted in low- and middle-income countries.”
She cited the example of Chad, an East African nation that hosts 1.5 million refugees. Ongoing civil war.
Menikdiwela, a recent visit to Chad’s refugee camp, said the agency’s programme there is very underfunded and cannot support the urgent needs of arriving refugees.
“There are men, women, children, and others who wander with bullet wounds and rap shotgun wounds,” she said. Women and girls in particular are exposed to unprecedented levels of sexual violence, Menikdiwela said she highlights the case of an 80-year-old woman who reported being raped multiple times.
Still, despite their dire circumstances, she said that if Chad had not respected the refugee treaty and allowed them across the border, the refugees she met would not be alive.
Refugee movement
Menikdiwela urged leaders to increase their donations and support, saying many Chadian refugees will continue to move north through Libya and ultimately Europe if needs are not met in the East African country.
However, she admitted to abuse of asylum applications by migrants who moved for economic or other reasons, not because they had escaped war or persecution. United Nations Refugee Agency Supports the concept Returns the hub, which is the e-song representation of the deportation centergaining increasing support in the US and Europe.
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