We like to think we help those in need, but the truth is we could and should be doing much more for the world’s displaced people
Our world is careening into crisis. In May this year, the United Nations’ refugee agency announced that, for the first time, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide has reached 100 million.
When 1 in 78 people globally have been forced to flee their homes, and as climate change threatens to displace more than 1 billion more of us by 2050, we need to ask ourselves: is our current refugee policy adequate?
Tamkeen Saeid is a refugee from Afghanistan who works as a lawyer in New Zealand
Philip McKibbin is a New Zealand writer
