However, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, himself a refugee during the Korean War, hailed it as historic.
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“We need to give them basic succor”, said Refugees International president Michel Gabaudan.
20 de septiembre de 2016, 08:32Beijing, Sep 20 (Prensa Latina) China assured at the Headquarters of the United Nations (UN) it would provide 100 million dollars to support the solution to the problems of mass movements of refugees and migrants, as reported today by the Government. Deputy Director of Global Advocacy for Human Rights Watch Philippe Bolopion said, “Is the outcome document up to the challenge?”
The investment comes in response to the Obama administration’s “Call to Action” initiative, asking U.S. companies to help ease the migrant crisis. This despite statistics indicating that 86 percent of the world’s 22 million forced migrants and refugees are hosted in 10 developing countries. No, unquestionably it’s not.
All nations must do more to help stem the world’s massive tide of refugees and migrants and develop global standards for their treatment, said dozens of leaders attending a United Nations summit on the crisis held Monday.
Zeid praised the political consensus reached in approving the New York Declaration on Migrants and Refugees, but warned against complacency and self-congratulation.
Today, World Leaders from 193 Member States of the United Nations are coming together in NY to participate at the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants.
“You have saved the lives of migrants at sea”.
“The overall climate is not very favourable to receiving refugees in many parts of the world but on the one hand, states committed to this so we can remind them of their obligations”.
“We have to be optimistic that we’ll see some real concrete commitments”, said Amnesty International’s Interim Executive Director Margaret Huang.
“It’s no surprise that some argue the future favors the strongman”, Obama said.
– Doctors Without Borders, which operates medical facilities in Syria and help refugees in neighboring countries including Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
Finally, we applaud those countries participating in the summit that, through their pledges, have made qualitative leaps in their commitment to humanitarian financing and/or resettlement and other humanitarian admissions.
Billionaire George Soros said Tuesday that he would invest $500 million to fund projects aiding migrants and refugees - more money than some entire countries have dedicated toward the people affected by the largest migration crisis since World War II.
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By 2018, the United Nations aims to adopt a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration, as member states also want to achieve a more equitable sharing of the responsibility for hosting and supporting the world’s refugees by adopting a global compact on refugees in 2018.
