Filippo Grandi: Asylum Speakers and Civilisational Values

filippo grandi: Filippo Grandi, head of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees UNHCR says if the richest countries simply close their borders in response they will undermine their capacity to tackle the issue, and their civilisational values in the longer term, according to Rabble. In a perceptive interview with this newspaper Grandi defined this as the age of egotism in the richer world, dominated by me first, we first, our country first policies and closing minds. This paradox is at the heart of warnings about how foolish is a short-sighted approach to the global buildup in numbers of refugees, asylum speakers and displaced people. Scapegoating refugees in hate speech, cutting off access and failing to deal with the root causes of displacement and forced movement of people could be copied by the global south where 85 per cent of them actually reside. Migrant 39 who failed to reach Europe dies in Libyan detention centre Multilingual videos to better inform Ireland's migrants on Covid-19Fleeing poverty, hunger and political turmoil on the road to Lima A similar closing off of rescue and humanitarian facilities in the Mediterranean by European states and the EU is not only heartless but erodes civilisational and legal values built up over generations. He warns this response is fundamentally ineffective and will make the problems involved far more difficult, or impossible, to tackle in 50 years time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.