{"id":5709,"date":"2015-07-01T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2015-07-01T08:18:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:18:49","slug":"world-refugees-crisis-or-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5709","title":{"rendered":"WORLD: Refugees, Crisis or Opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, June 16, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty\u2019s 35-page report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/download\/Documents\/POL4017962015ENGLISH.PDF\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/download\/Documents\/POL4017962015ENGLISH.PDF\">The Global Refugee Crisis: A Conspiracy of Neglect<\/a> blames the world and its leaders for failing to \u201cfix\u201d desperate circumstances currently surrounding 50 million people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe global refugee crisis may be fueled by conflict and persecution,\u201d part of the report reads, \u201cbut it is compounded by the neglect of the international community in the face of this human suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About two-thirds of the world\u2019s refugees have been in exile for more than five years, many of them with no end in sight. Approximately 86% live in developing nations; Turkey, Lebanon, and Pakistan each host over one million refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Outlining crises in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, [Amnesty] calls for a \u201cparadigm shift\u201d in the way people view the global refugee crisis. It also blames the global community for refugee deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current approaches to the world\u2019s many refugee crises are failing\u2014and the toll in lives lost and lives blighted is far higher than many armed conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/refugees-crisis-or-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/refugees-crisis-or-opportunity\/\">Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/the-global-refugee-crisis-is-unprecedented-and-getting-worse\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/article\/the-global-refugee-crisis-is-unprecedented-and-getting-worse\">The Global Refugee Crisis in Unprecedented and Getting Worse<\/a> (VICE News), <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/06\/18\/a-record-year-in-misery-the-world-has-never-seen-a-refugee-crisis-this-bad\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/06\/18\/a-record-year-in-misery-the-world-has-never-seen-a-refugee-crisis-this-bad\/\">A Record Year in Misery: the World Has Never Seen a Refugee Crisis This Bad<\/a> (Foreign Policy), the four-minute video <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/131246883\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/131246883\">Interview with a Refugee Pastor<\/a> (IAFR), summaries of a Brookings panel on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/events\/2015\/06\/24-europe-migration-crisis\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/events\/2015\/06\/24-europe-migration-crisis\">Europe\u2019s Migration Crisis<\/a>, the moving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tearfund.org\/en\/latest\/2015\/06\/diary_of_a_teenage_refugee\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.tearfund.org\/en\/latest\/2015\/06\/diary_of_a_teenage_refugee\/\">Diary of a Teenage Refugee<\/a> (Tearfund), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiecouncil.org\/publications\/articles_papers_reports\/736\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiecouncil.org\/publications\/articles_papers_reports\/736\">Migrant Deaths Worldwide<\/a> (Carnegie Council). Many refugees are coming from a country many people have never heard of: Eritrea. <a href=\"http:\/\/eritreanrefugees.org\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/eritreanrefugees.org\/\">Read about why they are fleeing<\/a> what has been called the \u201cNorth Korea of Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, June 16, 2015 Amnesty\u2019s 35-page report The Global Refugee Crisis: A Conspiracy of Neglect blames the world and its leaders for failing to \u201cfix\u201d desperate circumstances currently surrounding 50 million people. \u201cThe global refugee crisis may be fueled by conflict and persecution,\u201d part of the report reads, \u201cbut it is compounded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5709\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WORLD: Refugees, Crisis or Opportunity?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}