Appeal Thursday: Security Council and Resettlement Spaces

appeal thursday: That's despite a massive push by the agency to find more resettlement spaces for the estimated 1.2 million people it believes will need new homes next year at a time when finding those spots is becoming harder and harder, according to The Chronicle Herald. The UNHCR's Filippo Grandi made a passionate appeal Thursday to the UN Security Council a body on which Canada is hoping to gain a seat in four year's time for more action and advocacy in the face of multiplying crises around the world displacing tens of millions of people. But it might be half-hearted applause while the federal government is set to increase the number of privately sponsored refugees, the number they'll take via the UN remains the same. Many refugee-hosting states, particularly those neighbouring conflict zones, keep their borders open and generously host thousands sometimes millions of refugees, Grandi said. The United States, which for years has been the largest recipient of UN-referred refugees, appears poised to more than halve its intake in 2018, going from a cap of 110,000 planned admissions in 2017 to just 45,000 in 2018. But certain states often those least impacted by refugee flows, and often wealthy ones have closed borders, restricting access to asylum and deterring entry. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.