Four years into the Syrian civil war, the dramatic refugee crisis can no longer be ignored by European and American leaders.
The US administration, though deeply involved in the Middle East, has found it convenient for Syrian refugees to be seen as a European problem. And Europe’s response to date is far from the rhetoric of a union founded on the values of respect for human dignity and the protection of human rights. That has to change.
European citizens and their governments have to take up their responsibility. Many coming to West Europe do have “well-founded fear of persecution”. Coming from different countries and different cultures with different backgrounds and different religions they have to undergo a culture shock and find themselves facing contrasting religious thoughts.
Depressingly, they are but a fraction of the 20 million refugees and 40 million internally displaced people uprooted by conflict and persecution – the highest level ever recorded by the UN Refugee Agency.
write David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and Sigmar Gabriel, Vice-Chancellor of Germany, for the English newspaper Independent.
In “These are the steps Europe must take to solve the refugee crisis” they say
The causes of this human tragedy need to be addressed at source. There is a clear need for European Union leaders to use the bloc’s unique combination of diplomatic, political and development assets to re-energise moribund peace processes, and to expend the diplomatic capital necessary to stay the violence that uproots an average of 42,500 people every day. But decades-old instability in Afghanistan, Somalia and elsewhere will not be solved overnight, and it will be years before those who have fled Syria can even begin to consider returning home. So significantly increasing humanitarian and long-term development assistance to those uprooted by conflict and to refugee-hosting countries is vital.
Please do read the article: “These are the steps Europe must take to solve the refugee crisis” and find out that
The UN’s appeals for Syria and the wider region are just 31 and 40 per cent funded. The supply of food and basic medical treatment to refugees is in danger.
and that
We immediately need a joint European, American, and Arab donor initiative to boost the funding of those institutions that deliver help on the ground. Moreover, the machinery of international donor conferences needs to be turbo-charged to support an ambitious reconstruction and investment plan in the region.
We need a much more co-ordinated and fairer approach from Europe’s leaders. An effective strategy to manage the crisis will need to address the plight of those who have already reached Europe. Here, too, there are a number of steps that EU countries should urgently take.
Not only the governments are responsible to have those who come in our regions to be treated with dignity and respect. The local inhabitants must let the “guests” feel welcome and give them their moral support, showing them the right ways to settle here in Europe for the time being. they have to teach the ways we live here and how we understand people have to relate to each other. Religious clashes like we have seen over the past few weeks have to be avoided by making it clear that when they tried to escaped religious fundamentalists, they should know and accept that there is, has to be and has to stay free religious thought in our regions. The inhabitants of Europe have to show them that they are open to different religious groups and are not prejudiced to Muslim people. But they also have to make it very clear they want to keep religious freedom and freedom of clothing, thought and speech as one of the treasured values of our community.
To keep a good balance and to keep peace in the minds of the European civilians the governments have to
establish a fair, comprehensive, common European asylum policy, which ensures that all asylum applications are processed according to international standards, and shares out responsibility for hosting refugees among all EU member states. Equally, the Juncker Plan is right, too, to highlight that those who do not have a claim to refugee status should be sent home. {These are the steps Europe must take to solve the refugee crisis}
the human solidarity does not have to be taken by just a few countries of the European Union, but all countries of the European Union have to show their solidarity and act in unity with all the members to help those displaced people, but making sure that no economical refugees misuse the situation.
In the end Europe together with the other world powers shall have to take care that there comes and end to the war is in Syria and to the wars in the African countries were work has to be done to end the in-equality for the citizens and to the fraudulences of those in power.
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Preceding articles:
Refugees At The Border- A Blessing Or Burden?
Poster: Please Help The Refugees
The World Wide Refugee and Migrant Crisis and a possible solution for it
My two cents on the refugee crisis
Helping to create a Positive Attitude
Tolerance Ends When There Is No Tolerance Shown Towards Us
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Additional reading:
- Propaganda war and ISIS
- Wrong ideas about religious terrorism
- Bringing into safety from Iraq and Iran
- Meeting to focus on humanitarian issues for Syria
- State of Europe 2015 – Addressing Europe’s crises
- The world Having to face a collective failure
- Disintegrating Syria whilst diplomatic talks and poker-play continues
- Yazidi, they who were created
- ISIS has released pictures of the destruction of St. Elian’s place in Homs and the Baalshamin Temple in Palmyra
- Schengen area and Freedom for Europeans being put to the test as never before
- Can We Pay The Price To Free Humanity?
- If Europe fails on the question of refugees, then it won’t be the Europe we wished for
- A former war refugee’s views on the current refugee crisis
- The New gulf of migration and seed for far right parties
- Consequences of Mass Immigration in Sweden
- Britain’s position in an age of increasing globalisation
- Are people willing to take the responsibility for others
- Contribution – Contributie, bijdrage
- The sin of partiality
- See how you can use your skills, resources, and energy to help Syrians and other refugees in need
- bORDER-Gastrofest
- Complaining and fighting asylum seekers not giving signs of thankfulness
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