“Restrictive politics, the growing polarization around asylum policy and harmful narratives about refugees are doing a lot of damage,” Grandi said.
LEGNAN KULA/EPA
“Restrictive politics, the growing polarization around asylum policy and harmful narratives about refugees are doing a lot of damage,” Grandi said.
LEGNAN KULA/EPA
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned this Wednesday that many conflicts could spiral out of control and become very violent in 2023, exacerbating the plight of refugees and displaced people.
Poverty, food insecurity and climate change In his opinion, they will exacerbate crises like those in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Myanmar (formerly Burma), the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel and Central America.
“Restrictive politics, the growing polarization around asylum policy and Harmful narratives about refugees cause great harm”, said Grandi, quoted by the Spanish news agency Efe.
The number of people who have been forced to leave their homes due to persecution, wars and human rights violations has exceeded 100 million this year, which clearly shows failure of the international community in finding durable solutions to conflicts and in protecting fundamental rights, said the UN High Commissioner.
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Filippo Grandi also stressed that this year donors, both public and private, have been more generous than ever, but the needs of displaced people have grown even faster, forcing the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to accept difficult decisions about priorities.
Forced displacement has become a global problem exacerbated by the fact that many conflicts have been burning for a long time, so Grandi argued that solutions involve the integration of refugees and displaced persons into host communities, their resettlement in third countries and their return to their countries if conditions permit.
Faced with the position of some countries that were not fulfilling their international obligations, the high commissioner declared that the agency he headed would continue to protect the principles of the 1951 Refugee Convention, and asked other organizations and agents to do the same.
He recalled that the time for states, the private sector, civil society and financial institutions to reaffirm their commitment to this cause will be at the II Refugee Forum, which will be held in December 2023.
Source: Observador