The world’s system for protecting refugees is broken.
Worldwide, more than 21 million people have been forced to seek sanctuary abroad.
8 ways to solve the crisis
1. Opening up safe routes to sanctuary for refugees is one important solution. Also allowing them to be with relatives and giving them visas.
2. Resettlement
3. Priority Saving lives – no one should die crossing a border
4. People fleeing persecution or wars should be allowed to cross borders with or without travel documents.
5. All countries should investigate and prosecute trafficking gangs who exploit refugees and migrants, and put people’s safety above all else.
6. Governments need to stop blaming refugees and migrants for economic and social problems. Instead combat all kinds of xenophobia and racial discrimination.
xenophobia – fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign (merriam-webster)
7. People are dying while governments spend billions on border control. They urgently need to guarantee full funding to alleviate refugee crises worldwide.
8. Setting up strong refugee systems: allowing people to apply for asylum, treating their refugee claims fairly, resettling the most vulnerable of all, and providing basics like education and healthcare.
Amnesty International. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2017, from https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/10/eight-solutions-world-refugee-crisis/#