Global Refugee Forum Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/global-refugee-forum/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Global Refugee Forum Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/global-refugee-forum/ 32 32 Burden of housing refugees must be more fairly shared, says UN https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/burden-of-housing-refugees-must-be-more-fairly-shared-says-un/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/12/burden-of-housing-refugees-must-be-more-fairly-shared-says-un/ A three day forum in Geneva is trying to get countries to share responsibility for the more than 70 million refugees around the world. The gathering comes weeks after refugees besieged the United Nations High Commission For Refugees offices in Cape Town and Pretoria demanding to be moved away from xenophobic attacks in South Africa. […]

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]]> A three day forum in Geneva is trying to get countries to share responsibility for the more than 70 million refugees around the world.

The gathering comes weeks after refugees besieged the United Nations High Commission For Refugees offices in Cape Town and Pretoria demanding to be moved away from xenophobic attacks in South Africa.

The Global Refugee Forum in Geneva brings together governments, business and relief agencies.

UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi says the burden of housing refugees must be shared more fairly.

The number of refugees  driven out by war in Africa and the Middle East, violent drug lords in Colombia and repressive regimes in Asia are now four times more than the people displaced by the Second World War.

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