“Many groups have killed innocent civilians – none more so than the government of Syria, which continues to barrel bomb neighborhoods and systematically torture thousands of detainees”, he added.
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As the world faces the largest refugee crisis since World War II, an astonishing 3.7 million refugee children around the globe are now out of school.
“If you look at polls – only 35 percent of Americans want Syrian refugees to come here – I think they instinctively know that these people can not be vetted”, Christian Whiton, a former senior State Department adviser in the George W. Bush administration, said.
“There are a lot of nations right now that are doing the right thing”, Obama said.
AT a time when sponsored activists are trying to present Zimbabwe as an global pariah in the United States, the U.S. has come out gushing about Zimbabwe, hailing the Government for honouring its worldwide commitments and offering a safe haven for thousands of refugees from the world’s hotspots.
We were pleased to see the USA government announce almost $37 million in funding for UNHCR to support refugee education programs in 16 countries, as well as to hear commitments from other countries to make changes that will allow more refugee children to access education. But he added that false perceptions of Islam in the West were breeding further intolerance. The prime minister of Ethiopia, for example, said he would lift a longstanding ban on refugees working outside of camps.
Obama was unabashed in his critique of Russian Federation as he laid out his diagnosis of the world’s ills.
Ki-moon said the adoption would mean that more children could now attend school, more workers could securely seek jobs overseas, instead of being at the mercy of criminal smugglers, and more people would have real choices about whether to move during conflicts sustain peace and increase opportunities at home.
“In a world that left the age of empire behind, we see Russian Federation attempting to recover lost glory through force”, Obama said.
Ban also criticized authoritarian and undemocratic tendencies among world leaders bent on clinging to power.
He listed a host of “grave security threats” – fighting in Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Sahel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict where “the prospects for a two-state solution are being lowered by the day”.
But he also noted positive global developments during his decade as the United Nations chief.
Looking back on his almost 10 years at the helm of the United Nations, Ban cited the rise of “people power” with mobile phones that now blanket the world, reductions in poverty, political transitions in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, and the cease-fire agreement in Colombia.
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World leaders at a United Nations summit hosted by the United States vowed to double the number of refugees who are resettled and given a legal path to immigrate into their countries, a joint statement issued by the White House said on Tuesday. More than 65.3 million people are now displaced worldwide. It falls on all governments to come together and deliver a new deal for children – one that will ensure their right to a safe and productive life.
