As the UN General Assembly gathers in New York for its first-ever High Level Meeting on Large Movements of Migrants and Refugees and the Obama Administration hosts a Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, a diplomatic spotlight is on the scale and severity of the current global refugee crisis. In the face of unprecedented levels of forced displacement, the global response has ranged from tepid to hostile. This week’s summits can be a turning point for U.S. and global policy–and an opportunity to avoid repeating tragic mistakes of the past.
In June of 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
