World Refugee Day 2017
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Syrian refugees pick cucumbers in Baalbek, Lebanon
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Rohingya refugee children attend a Madrassa near Jammu, India
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A Tibetan exile sells bread in Dharmsala, India
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A UNHCR registration center in Peshawar, Pakistan
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Hasan Sham camp, Iraq
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Hasan Sham camp, Iraq
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Bakassi IDPs camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria
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Refugee camp in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Refugee camp in Democratic Republic of Congo
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An Iraqi woman hangs laudry in al-Khazir camp, Iraq
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Al-Khazir camp, Iraq
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Iraqis play football in al-Khazir camp, Iraq
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Bidi Bidi refugee camp in northern Uganda
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Ramadan in the al-Khazir camp, Iraq
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Ritsona refugee camp in Greece
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Souda refugee camp, Chios island, Greece
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Ritsona refugee camp in Greece
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Ritsona refugee camp in Greece
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Mingkaman camp, South Sudan
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UN protected site in Wau, South Sudan
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Camp for Internally Displaced Persons, Yemen
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Hassan Shan Camp, Northern Iraq
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Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
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Hammam al-Alil camp, south of Mosul, Iraq
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IDP camp in Doolow, Somalia
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IDP camp near Dinsor, Somalia
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Dayniile IDP Camp in Mogadishu, Somalia
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El-Riyadh camp in Geneina, Sudan
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An internally displaced Syrian woman in Damascus
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Palai Veemankamam South Village Resettlement Area in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka
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Rescue operation at the Mediterranean sea
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A refugee from Guinea becomes a U.S citizen
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Trump administration on Tuesday that if the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced — and that won’t be good for America or for the world.
Guterres made clear to reporters at his first press conference here since taking the reins of the United Nations on Jan. 1 that proposed cuts in U.S. funding for the U.N. would be disastrous and create “an unsolvable problem to the management of the U.N.”
The secretary-general, who served as U.N. high commissioner for refugees for 10 years, chose World Refugee Day for the press conference and appealed to all U.N. member states not to refuse entry to those seeking asylum and deserving protection.
He also urged rich countries to do much more to support the 80 percent of the world’s refugees living in the developing world — and to increase the number of refugees they will give new homes to.
The United States is “by far the largest resettlement country in the world” with a “very generous and positive policy,” Guterres said.
But Trump is moving to significantly reduce the number of refugees allowed to enter the United States, even as his bid to temporarily suspend admissions is stalled in the courts. His budget proposal calls for a 25 percent cut in funds for resettling refugees on American soil.
Guterres said he has strongly encouraged the United States “to come back to the levels of resettlement that we witnessed until two or three years ago.” (AP)
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