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To what Extent should Developed Countries Accommodate Refugees Escaping Crisis in Home Situations?

They are not citizens, they are not illegal, they are not residents they are not nomad; they are refugees. ­ The refugee problem is one of the greatest problems in the world of international politics and legislation. The crisis has intensified just recently attracting attention from developed countries and international organizations. The United Nations has created the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which has the responsibility to protect and support refugees worldwide. Simplifying the definition provided by the 1951 refugee convention, a refugee is any person who is not in his country of citizenship because of a fear of discriminatory persecution or to avoid acts which breach public order, internal or external aggression, or impacts of a natural disaster and cannot or is not willing to return. There are a total of about 19.5 million refugees across the world which include 5.1 million Palestinian refugees and 3.9 million Syrian refugees, however they are many million...
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Do the Benefits of Providing Aid to Poorer Countries Outweigh its Harms?

Financial aid in today’s world has great importance regarding domestic amelioration and international relations between countries however there are issues that emerge the receiving and donating countries that must be identified, assessed and suitably acted upon so they can be dealt successfully. Foreign aid is actually the voluntarily one-sided transfer of resources from countries that are economically and politically stable to assist countries which are not very well-off (Economics). Originally aid was provided to help stabilize the recipient country; this concept picking pace after the WWII, to help reestablish the devastated war-torn countries and to create allies but in the current age of international politics, most of the aid is conditional for example it is tied aid and has a number of other conditions (Reliefweb) (IPS news).The highest donor of foreign assistance last year was the USA with a $32 billion of foreign aid given whereas the country that received the most aid was A...
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