Ban blamed all sides for killing innocent people, but “none more so than the government of Syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighbourhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees”.
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A White House statement describing the meeting makes no specific reference to maritime issues.
“We’ve a collective responsibility to change the narrative on migrants and migration in our countries. You have extended protection to refugees”, United Nations Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson told the gathered assembly during the closing session of the high-level meeting in NY. He says the extremist group has embedded itself “deeply” in Mosul but that the USA and its partners are confident they can be in a position to move forward in Mosul “fairly rapidly”. This, he said, was because of many countries trying to turn the refugees back in violation of worldwide law.
“I will invest in startups, established companies, social-impact initiatives and businesses founded by migrants and refugees themselves”, Soros wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
His counterpart from China is pledging $100 million in new aid.
Earlier on Monday, heads of State and Government, met in a bid to address large movement of refugees and migrants, and adopted a declaration aimed at protecting rights of those vulnerable people to ultimately save their lives.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a package of $2.8 billion in humanitarian and self-reliance assistance. The aid is for the Mideast, North Africa and other parts of the world.
Billionaire investor George Soros said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that he would invest $500 million to meet the needs of migrants and refugees.
The Obama administration is planning to raise the number of refugees the USA takes in by almost 30% to 110,000 in the 2017 fiscal year starting October 1.
“Until the world stands up and says let’s have a fair distribution of these refugees. we don’t have much hope”.
According to the U.N. Refugee Agency, refugees are people forced to flee due to armed conflict or persecution, while migrants choose to move in search of a better life.
David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee and a former British Foreign Secretary, said he’s hopeful but waiting to see whether any agreements are backed up with action.
The mayors also released their op-ed to coincide with the meeting of the United Nations in NY this week, and directly called on those in attendance to provide “an effective response to a growing humanitarian crisis”.
But critics say the summit merely serves to highlight Obama’s failings on the issue, including his refusal to use USA military power to carve out safe areas for those fleeing the Syrian regime’s barrel bombs and artillery attacks.
He said Kerry and Abbas would “work with key partners to advance the prospects for peace while opposing all efforts that would undermine that goal”. “But not from the broader judgement of “we the people”, all the world’s people – not from us”.
Clooney, Murad’s legal representative, said Yazidi victims “want to appear before a judge”.
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Danon said Hamas is infiltrating humanitarian organizations in Gaza and using strategically placed operatives to divert funds. We also call for transparency of funding practices. He said he has contacted various United Nations agencies and global aid organizations to make similar demands. Under the scheme, Hungary is supposed to take in 1,294 refugees.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May told the Guardian newspaper Monday that it was better to help more refugees in their own region than resettle a smaller number elsewhere.
“I urge the global community to collaborate strongly with the government of Somalia the construction and restoration of critical services in order to support repatriation and resettlement”, said the Deputy President.
FILE – In this January 22, 2016 file photo, Syrian refugee children play outside their family tents in a camp in the town of Saadnayel, in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon.
Blaming “an epidemic of amnesia”, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, delivered a harsh rebuke on the sluggishness of global response.
The Obama administration itself has signalled it will raise the worldwide limit on the number of refugees entering the U.S. to 110,000 next year, up from 85,000 this year.
The New York Declaration commits world leaders to protect the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of their status.
Rights groups and non-government organisations say Monday’s United Nations declaration falls far short of where it should be.
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It might indeed be a historic meeting for the United Nations, but for the migrants and refugees continuing their perilous routes into increasingly walled-off Europe, Alex Aleinikoff, former U.N. deputy high commissioner for refugees from 2010 to 2015, is skeptical.
