{"id":3228,"date":"2019-06-20T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"sharing-the-burden-of-refugees-the-world-can-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/20\/sharing-the-burden-of-refugees-the-world-can-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing The Burden Of Refugees; The World Can Do Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By SIDDHARTH CHATTERJEE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the world marks World Refugee Day on June 20 to celebrate the\nstrength, courage and perseverance of refugees, a glaring concern remains just\nhow inadequate the global response to the refugee crisis has been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To a large extent, refugees have been painted with the broad\nstrokes of a burden to host economies or sources of insecurity and crime. The\nworld has lacked the resolve and skills needed to negotiate peace settlements,\nend the refugee crisis through dialogue and diplomacy and support countries\nthat continue to host refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees\n(UNHCR), the world is facing the highest levels of displacement ever in\nhistory, with over 65 million people forced from their homes by war, internal\nconflicts, drought or poor economies. People are forcibly displaced at a rate\nof 34,000 per day due to conflict or persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world\u2019s poorer countries are bearing the brunt. Currently,\neight out of ten refugees are hosted by developing countries, mostly in Africa,\nadding to existing challenges such as access to food, water, shelter and health\ncare to both refugees and host communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extensive media coverage of the surge in refugees landing in\nEurope has tended to divert attention from the challenges that a few African\ncountries are grappling with as they carry the burden of displacement.\nEthiopia, Uganda and Kenya are among the countries in Africa that continue to\nextend their hospitality and bare the social and economic burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethiopia hosts nearly 740,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia,\nEritrea, Sudan and South Sudan, the largest refugee population in a single\nAfrican country. The country maintains an open-door policy that welcomes\nrefugees and allows humanitarian access and protection\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/oped\/blogs\/620-5164144-k40o5jz\/index.html\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SIDDHARTH CHATTERJEE As the world marks World Refugee Day on June 20 to celebrate the strength, courage and perseverance of refugees, a glaring concern remains just how inadequate the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}