The Global Refugee Crisis: Humanity’s Last Call for a Culture of Sharing and Cooperation
NOVANEWS
Postedby: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
By Rajesh Makwana
Sharing.org
This article was originally published on March 15, 2016.
Razor-wire fences, detention centres, xenophobic rhetoric and political disarray; nothing illustrates the tendency of governments to aggressively pursue nationalistic interests more starkly than their inhumane response to refugees fleeing conflict and war. With record numbers of asylum seekers predicted to reach Europe this year and a morally acceptable humanitarian response nowhere in sight, the immediate problem is more apparent than ever: the abject failure of the international community to share the responsibility, burden and resources needed to safeguard the basic rights of asylum seekers in accordance with international law.
Of immediate concern across...