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Global 'Fragmentation' Fuelling World's Crises: UN Refugee Chief
Outgoing UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi cites global political fragmentation and aid cuts that forced a one-third staff reduction amid rising displacement, now over 117 million worldwide.
- On Thursday, Filippo Grandi warned that an increasingly fragmented world fuels conflicts and will hand over UNHCR to Barham Salih, whom he called "He will be an excellent leader for this organisation."
- Donor pressure, especially from Washington, has driven cuts as Washington branded the UN 'adapt, shrink or die' on Monday, while Grandi insisted that "no country can do any of this alone, not even the United States."
- Aid cuts forced the agency to shrink operations, with Filippo Grandi saying, "We had to reduce the organisation by about a third" and scale back deliveries to displaced people.
- Grandi warned that 'my country first' rhetoric is most worrying, flagging growing hostility from populist politicians targeting refugees and asylum seekers amid crises in Myanmar and Sudan.
- Grandi warned the world has become unable to make peace, saying states need institutions to cooperate and highlighting Ivan Duque's 2021 legal status grant to Venezuelans and recent Lebanon–Syria border talks.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, is concerned about a world marked by "increasing hostility" towards refugees. ...
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