Gillian Triggs, UN Assistant Secretary-General addressed the One Young World Summit in Belfast.
Opening up the UN Refugee Convention to reform would cause the world to “go backwards” on refugee rights, a UN leader has said.
In a trip to Washington DC last week, the Home Secretary Suella Braverman said it should be questioned whether the application of the UN’s Refugee Convention is “fit for our modern age”. “And can I say, from a UN refugee point of view, from the agency point of view, this system is working across the world a lot of the time.
“So I’m not suggesting we shouldn’t be trying, and we should be, but let’s be a little careful because we’re in a global environment of populist rhetoric. That is denigrating people who are seeking protection across national boundaries.” Ms Triggs, a former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, said that the UN refugee agency is “scaling up” its capacity to protect climate refugees.
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