“We have to end wars and put humanity first”, said Taha, who was held by ISIS in Iraq for several months in 2014.
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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. But real consequences are few, she said. “If I had a bowl of Skittles and I told you just three would kill you”.
Soros, who in 1947 fled Hungary for England, said he will work with worldwide organizations that help refugees to determine how to invest the money, but he hinted that tech is one likely benefactor.
President Obama is at the United Nations today hosting a Leaders’ Summit on the global migrant crisis.
China, as the biggest developing country, has paid great attention to and taken an active part in the global governance of refugee and migrant issues, actively advocating political resolutions and proposing ceasefires in conflict-ridden areas, said Li. Obama’s aides have focused on how the USA has a fraction of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan than it had when Obama took office and how nations are finally poised to act in concert to reduce greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
“We are now going to go up to 85,000 with at least, and I underscore the “at least” – it is not a ceiling, it’s a floor – of 10,000 over the next year from Syria specifically even as we also receive more refugees from other areas”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of the policy, and polls suggest many Americans side with him.
Ban said “many groups have killed innocent civilians – none more so than the government of Syria”.
Nine million people alone have been displaced by the six-year conflict in Syria while more than four million others have fled the war-torn country.
“To slam the door in the face of these families would betray our deepest values”, he said.
UNHCR also welcomed the announcement of the World Bank’s Global Concessional Financing Facility (GCFF) and of the generous US$50 million contribution of the United States to make it operational.
Japan announced on Monday that it would provide $2.8 billion to help deal with the global refugee crisis over three years from 2016, while China said it would give an additional $100 million and is also considering setting aside a $1 billion fund for the goal. The list includes prominent companies including Western Union, Twitter, Microsoft, Ikea and Google.
Both Ban and Obama were making their final speeches at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations.
Ban also paid tribute to Mardini, saying she might not have won a medal at the Olympics but was a victor nonetheless.
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The article could not have been more transparent in stating the administration’s objective: President Obama announced that the United States will welcome more refugees from around the world, increasing the number of people we receive by 40 percent over the next two years, to 100,000 in 2017.
