You have treated migrants humanely. “It demands practical action and results”, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said.
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Asked if she would consider increasing the number of refugees Britain is now taking from the camps in the countries neighbouring Syria, she said the United Kingdom may speed up the current plan – not add to it.
“The Declaration outlines a more comprehensive, predictable and sustainable response to forced displacement, and a system of governance for global migration”.
“The Summit represents a breakthrough in our collective efforts to address the challenges of human mobility”, he said. “We must place the human rights of all refugees and migrants at the heart of our commitments”. Supporting highly skilled immigrants and refugees to put their backgrounds to work in these open jobs would generate substantial tax revenue and consumer spending.
The top United Nations refugee official also pledged to work with world leaders to manage forced displacement and called on governments to provide political engagement, funding and concrete acts of solidarity in support of host countries and pursuit of solutions for refugees. She called on the world to “stop the extermination of my people”.
He said dignity of mankind is common goal of whole world and to resolve crises we will have to resolve issues which cause conflicts.
“Excellencies, our common humanity demands that we must heed these cries and work together more wholistically and more effectively to address this crisis”. The declaration aims to bring about a standardised response to refugee situations, improve working opportunities for refugees, provide better education prospects for children – who constitute more than half the refugee population – and also campaign against xenophobia.
“Faith communities participate in resettlement because they recognize that, ultimately, the stories that have given life to their faith are stories of their very identity, said Allison Duvall, Episcopal Migration Ministries manager for church relations and engagement, who was also a part of the delegation”.
“I met with Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees in Berlin earlier this year and heard their family stories about what forced them to flee their countries”.
The New York Declaration calls on countries which can resettle or reunite many more refugees to do so.
A second summit to be hosted by President Barack Obama on Tuesday will seek concrete pledges from leaders to help bear the cost of assisting and resettling the world’s 65.3 million migrants and refugees.
He added that going forward, the worldwide community must also address the “root causes of displacement” and forced migration.
Support initiatives to protect refugees and migrants from xenophobic violence, prosecute perpetrators, and encourage the world’s leaders to condemn such incidents.
She said the promotion of tolerance and understanding is crucial for accommodating migrants and refugees.
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“Both summits are crucial to raising awareness of refugee and migration concerns, and both events are created to harness the political will of member states to address the global refugee and migration crises we are all facing”, said U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby, speaking in Washington.
