UNHCR is putting the screws to Japan to take refugees, especially Syrian Muslims
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres: The US has given an open-ended commitment to resettle Syrians. Why not Japan?http://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/unhcr-says-us-has-pledged-open-ended-resettlement-numbers-for-syrians/
They don’t actually say Syrian Muslims, but they never do!
This guilt-tripping pressure campaign on Japan has been going on for awhile. Japan does take a handful of refugees, but you can imagine how it galls those one-worlders at the UN that Japan is holding out introducing the joys of multiculturalism in any big way.
In fact, Japan is one of the few places in the world attempting to save itself from cultural annihilation!
From The Japan Times:
The ongoing conflicts in Syria and Iraq have produced more than 12 million refugees and internally displaced people. They are flooding across borders in the region, and some neighboring states have reached their limit. One-third of Lebanon’s population now comprises refugees.
Meanwhile, Japan, a signatory member of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, recognized only six refugees in 2013. To this day, no Syrian has ever received such status.
During a visit to Tokyo last week, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres called on Japan to review its rigid refugee recognition system.
“The numbers are quite low. . . . I think there is a reasonable presumption that the system is too rigid and too restrictive ...
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