Publication date
2016-07-18Keywords
AsylumAsylum-seekers
International law
International refugee law
1951 Refugee Convention
Refugees and IDPs
Conflict
Country
AfghanistanBurundi
Central African Republic
China
The Democratic Republic of Congo
Eritrea
France
Germany
Greece
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Lebanon
Macedonia
Nigeria
Pakistan
Occupied Palestinian Territory
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Syrian Arab Republic
Tanzania
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Yemen
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OxfamDocument type
Media briefingDescription
The number of people forced to flee their homes due to war, violence or persecution is at record levels. In this briefing, Oxfam highlights the stark divide between the countries which are offering practical help to refugees who desperately need a safe place to stay ? and those that are not. The responsibility for providing refugees with shelter, food and health care, as well as jobs and education, is falling disproportionately on poorer countries, which are often struggling to meet the needs of their own people or are at risk of compromising their own stability.
This briefing provides context for the back-to-back summits in New York being held by the United Nations and President Obama, which are opportunities for all countries to improve the way people forced to flee are treated, and provide them with a dignified future.