Kofi Annan Quotes About Refugees

Quotes about: Refugees

• I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

  Kofi Annan

  Past, Philanthropy, Celebrate

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

• The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Borders, States

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

• UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades of conflict. The blue helmets and their civilian colleagues work together to organize elections, enact police and judicial reform, promote and protect human rights, conduct mine-clearance, advance gender equality, achieve the voluntary disarmament of former combatants, and support the return of refugees and displaced people to their homes.

  Kofi Annan

  Home, Rights, Blue

• The drafters of the [Refugee Convention ] had the Cold War in mind and mainly sought to protect a few thousand dissidents from the Communist bloc. They did not envision the mass displacements of people we are seeing today.

  Kofi Annan

  War, People, Mind

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

• I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

  Kofi Annan

  Thinking, Flow, Inevitable

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

• [Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

  Kofi Annan

  Rights, Migrants, Borders

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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