{"id":4702,"date":"2015-10-08T23:27:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2015-10-08T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T23:27:41","slug":"warning-against-toxic-public-debates-un-official-urges-global-compact-on-refugee-and-asylum-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/10\/08\/warning-against-toxic-public-debates-un-official-urges-global-compact-on-refugee-and-asylum-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning against \u2018toxic public debates,\u2019 UN official urges global compact on refugee and asylum matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"story-headline\"><\/h4>\n<div id=\"PhotoHolder3\"><a id=\"PhotoCrop\" class=\"lightbox\" title=\"A refugee lies face down on the stony ground with his hands over his face after reaching shore, near the village of Skala Eressos, on the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece. Photo: UNICEF\/Ashley Gilbertson VII\" href=\"http:\/\/static.un.org\/News\/dh\/photos\/large\/2015\/October\/10-08-2015Migrants.jpg\" rel=\"gallery-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"A refugee lies face down on the stony ground with his hands over his face after reaching shore, near the village of Skala Eressos, on the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece. Photo: UNICEF\/Ashley Gilbertson VII\" src=\"http:\/\/static.un.org\/News\/dh\/photos\/large\/2015\/October\/10-08-2015Migrants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"207\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"phtocaption\">A refugee lies face down on the stony ground with his hands over his face after reaching shore, near the village of Skala Eressos, on the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece. Photo: UNICEF\/Ashley Gilbertson VII<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"fullstory\">\n<div class=\"add-this\">\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_counter_style\">\n<div class=\"fb-like fb_iframe_widget\" data-ref=\".VhZTBQ1qsPY.like\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-show_faces=\"false\" data-share=\"false\" data-action=\"like\" data-width=\"55\" data-font=\"arial\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=52207\" data-send=\"false\">8 October 2015 \u2013 The top protection expert in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/cgi-bin\/texis\/vtx\/home\">UNHCR<\/a>) today warned of a growing risk to people fleeing conflict and persecution and called for \u201can all-out effort to ensure that protection, and in particular the institution of asylum, remains life-saving, non-political, and fundamentally humanitarian.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking in Geneva at the UNHCR annual Executive Commitment meeting, Volker T\u00fcrk, UNHCR\u2019s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, drew attention to the 60 million forcibly displaced people living in a troubled global landscape of increased conflict, coupled with an ever-more dire humanitarian funding situation.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that some countries are building fences or walls to keep refugees out, or using deterrence to shift people onto the territories of their neighbours, as well as denying school for children and legal work for adults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPush-backs, building walls, increasing detention, and further restricting access, combined with few legal avenues to safety, will never be the answer,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/56152fa76.html\">said<\/a> Mr. T\u00fcrk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact is simply the diversion of refugee movements along other routes and the aggravation of already precarious situations in regions embroiled in conflict,\u201d he continued. \u201cWorse still, these measures compel more people who have nothing left to lose to risk dangerous journeys onward in the hope of finding eventual safety and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. T\u00fcrk also warned against an apparent lack of responsibility for the safety of refugees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also becoming increasingly evident that the single most important challenge to the safety and protection of refugees arises from populist politics and toxic public debates, as well as the climate of fear they engender,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is often fuelled and abetted by irresponsible media reporting, lack of political and moral leadership, and xenophobia and racism,\u201d he continued. \u201cIn some countries around the world, there has been a proliferation of xenophobic narratives, hate speech, fear-mongering, and inflammatory statements \u2013 both at the political and civil society levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. T\u00fcrk also noted the need to build closer ties between displaced people and the communities that host them, which, if left unsupported, could easily become overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity-based protection includes investment in national and community capacity to reinforce social cohesion between the displaced \u2013 be they refugees or IDPs [internally displaced persons] \u2013 and their host communities. This helps to preserve pluralism and diversity as well as promote peaceful co-existence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In his concluding remarks, he said that an all-out effort was needed \u201cto ensure that protection, and in particular the institution of asylum remains life-saving, non-political, and fundamentally humanitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must call upon our shared humanity, histories and sacred traditions of providing refuge to persons fleeing conflict and persecution, and remember that it was exactly for times like these that the international refugee protection regime was created,\u201d said Mr. T\u00fcrk.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the 1951 Refugee Convention recognized that the problems of forced displacement cannot be achieved by countries working in isolation. \u201cThis speaks to the most critical protection gap we are facing today \u2013 the need for a global compact on predictable and equitable burden and responsibility-sharing,\u201d he said. \u201cIn a world in turmoil, we need a sense of equanimity, purpose, and trust to make such a compact a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A refugee lies face down on the stony ground with his hands over his face after reaching shore, near the village of Skala Eressos, on the island of Lesbos, in the North Aegean region of Greece. 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