UNHCR launch first Global Refugee Forum as displacements reach highest ever level

Record ID: 1448655

  • Title: UNHCR launch first Global Refugee Forum as displacements reach highest ever level
  • Date: 16th December 2019
  • Summary: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (DECEMBER 16, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL (NRC) SECRETARY-GENERAL, JAN EGELAND, SAYING: "Europeans and Americans are in a race to the bottom at the moment, in refusing to give protection to the families, the children, the women, the men, who need protection."
  • 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: LVA008BA871ON
  • 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.
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