“Afghanistan and its people cannot be abandoned,” said the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a two-day conference kicked off Monday (17 Feb) in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad to address millions of Afghans trapped in exile over forty years of conflict.
2.7 million Afghans are registered as refugees worldwide, with just over half – 1.4 millio, in Pakistan. Their needs, and those of the communities hosting them, are the focus of the conference, said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi in his opening statement.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan aske the audience: “Who wants to be a refugee?” He answered himself: “It’s probably the most difficult decision for a human being to leave his home.”~UNHCR
More than a million people have sought asylum in European countries over the past decade as they have fled the civil war in Syria.Now, with the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, some are controversially putting the brakes on new asylum requests.Also,Syrians in Europe are both jubilant and fearful about the future as a result of the rapid political changes.
Israel says its forces will not leave the Golan Heights border area until it is certain that the people living there will be safe. Israel has taken control of a buffer zone between Israel and Syria. The Druze, who make up half of these population, are concerned about what will happen to them and their families on the Syrian side of the border after Bashar al-Assad’s government’s fall.syria.
The British Museum’s use of the term “Xizang” to label Tibetan artifacts in its Silk Roads exhibition has prompted criticism from Tibetans and rights groups who have demanded that the museum remove the Beijing-promoted term and issue a formal apology.
Young people being deceived into forced labor by criminal gangs, primarily involving illegal work in Chinese-controlled special zones in Cambodia, has become a pressing issue not only in Vietnam but across Southeast Asia.
Vanessa Frazier, Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations, introduces a resolution at the Security Council meeting on children and armed conflict.
Macabre killings, casual torture, misdirection and snooping were part of “the anatomy of enforced disappearances” linked to deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, an inquiry commission said in its first report.
In 2024, there was a slowdown in the number of migrants traveling from Latin America to the United States, in part due to new policies and controls put in place in the so-called transit countries that migrants pass through on their way north. Migration dynamics are being reshaping by these measures as well as the new U.S. presidential administration’s promises of mass deportations.
Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State of the United States of America, chairs the United Nations Security Council meeting on Maintenance of International Peace and Security and Artificial Intelligence.
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