World leaders approve plan to tackle refugee crisis
 

World leaders approve plan to tackle refugee crisis
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World leaders on Monday approved a declaration aimed at providing a more coordinated and humane response to the refugee crisis that has strained resources and sparked divisions from Africa to Europe.

The issue of what to do about the world's 65.3 million displaced people took center stage at the U.N. General Assembly with leaders from the 193 member states taking part in the first-ever summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants.

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Advocacy groups worried that the New York Declaration on Migrants and Refugees — an outcome document which contains ** concrete commitments and is **t legally binding — falls short of what is needed. Read more...

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