Sunday
01, March 2015 2330 hrs
I
came across an interesting plea that formed part of an article written by the
Secretary General of Amnesty International and reproduced by an English
newspaper. The plea as addressed to the governments of the world’s richest
countries and those of the UN Security Council’s permanent members. It rued the
fact that the veto powers of these members as well as the growing reluctance of
rich nations to offer asylum to refugees from the world’s most conflict-ridden
regions are very unbecoming of them and serves to undermine their expressed
support for human rights.
To
me this presents a unique and excellent opportunity for organizations such as
the UNHCR and Amnesty International as well as the world’s rich nations to
collaborate and innovate for solutions that will transcend the challenges. How
about the UN having its own sovereign territories in each continent that is
meant only for refugees seeking basic human rights and that is administered
with funding support from all UN members and technological and managerial support
from the CSR initiatives of the Fortune 500 companies of the world? Such
territories can also be excellent schools to propagate universal brotherhood
and other UN principles for global community living together. This way the problems
of refugees need not be the moral responsibility of a few numbers of rich
countries, which also have their own economic and socio-political problems to
manage!
Hope
your weekend was great and you are all fired up to meet the excitement that the
week ahead may offer.
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