First Person | The roots of the refugee protection system are colonial and racist
The New Humanitarian
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The Global Protection System of Refugees
Some non-refugee committee members in the United States questioned whether I truly needed protection. When it came to talking about solutions or what should be done, "I felt silenced and excluded," she says. The refugee protection system has little room for people with first-hand experience of forced displacement,. She writes: Global North countries had outsized influence on the drafting of the 1951 convention.
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