REFUGEES NEED MEANINGFUL CHANGE The UN Global Compact on Refugees, initiated by the General Assembly, failed to deliver meaningful change for 25 million refugees. In July, after 18 months of consultations, the final text of the Compact, which aimed to improve the international community’s response to mass forcible displacement, was notably unambitious: a shameful blueprint for responsibility shirking. Above right: A drone photo shows an aerial view of al-Karama camp which hosts thousands of war victims who fled their homeland due to ongoing civil war. 20 December 2017, near Qah village in the northwestern city of Idlib, Syria. © Burak Karacaoglu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Right: A migrant sits on board a rescue boat run by the NGO Proactiva Open Arms in the central Mediterranean Sea, 2 August 2018. © Reuters/Juan Medina. Below: Two migrant boys walk through a makeshift area next to the Moria camp for refugees and migrants on the island of Lesbos, Greece, 17 September 2018. © Reuters/Giorgos Moutafis.
UNHCR REPORTED A
54%
DROP IN RESETTLEMENT PLACEMENTS FOR REFUGEES.
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