What the world owes refugees
6/22/19
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by Angelina Jolie,
from TIME Magazine,
6/19/19:
Who comes to mind when you picture a refugee? You probably don’t imagine a European. But if you were a child of World War II and asked your parents what a refugee was, they would probably have described someone from Europe.
More than 40 million Europeans were displaced by the war. The U.N. Refugee Agency was created for them. We forget this. Some of the leaders uttering the harshest rhetoric against refugees today trace their routes back to countries that went through tragic refugee experiences and were helped by the international community.
At the first sign of armed conflict or persecution, the natural human response is to try to take your children out of harm’s way.
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