UNHCR launch first Global Refugee Forum as displacements reach highest ever level
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UNHCR launch first Global Refugee Forum as displacements reach highest ever level
- Title: UNHCR launch first Global Refugee Forum as displacements reach highest ever level
- Date: 16th December 2019
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English) OXFAM GREAT BRITAIN CHIEF EXECUTIVE, DANNY SRISKANDARAJAH, SAYING: "I think it is really important that we go back to the key principles in this area of policy making (repatriating refugees); one of those is for example about only facilitating returns of refugees, when they have a safe home to go back to, and if you take a context like Syria today, all the evidence suggest that Syria is far from safe, stable, secure context for refugees to return to, and I hope that a forum like this is an opportunity to underline those key principles of international refugee law."
- Embargoed: 30th December 2019 21:39
- Keywords: Geneva U.N. Refugee agency global refugee forum refugee crisis
- Location: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / MAICAO, GUAJIRA DEPARTMENT, COLOMBIA / CUCUTA, COLOMBIA / LESBOS, GREECE / BAR ELIAS, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON /
- City: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / MAICAO, GUAJIRA DEPARTMENT, COLOMBIA / CUCUTA, COLOMBIA / LESBOS, GREECE / BAR ELIAS, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON /
- Country: Various
- Topics: Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA00CBA871ON
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The first ever Global Refugee Forum will open on Tuesday (December 17) in Geneva in a bid to find new approaches to deal with refugees-related issues, as displacement numbers hit a new record in 2019.
The forum's aim is to translate the principle of responsibility-sharing, with funding, real resettlement pledges, into concrete action, and finding ways to improve refugee education and access to work.
It is expected the issue of Syrian refugees living in Turkey will also be raised during the forum.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is attending the Forum as a co-convener, said last week Turkey aimed to settle one million Syrian war refugees in the mostly Kurdish area of northern Syria where it carried out military incursion in October.
This is despite that, according to International Humanitarian Law, refugee repatriation had to be voluntary and to a safe and secure country. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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