THE UN REFUGEE PACT
\nMORE SOLIDARITY IN REFUGEE PROTECTION MUST BE POSSIBLE<\/p>\n
Greeting:
\nGeorg Lennkh, Member of the Board of the Kreisky Forum<\/p>\n
Keynote:
\nVolker T\u00fcrk, Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees and Protection, UNHCR<\/p>\n
Follow-up conversation with
\nChristian Ultsch, Head of Foreign Policy DIE PRESSE<\/p>\n
In many industrialised nations, border protection and isolation are very popular today. At the same time, the majority (85%) of all refugees worldwide are still being taken in by poorer or lower-income countries.
\nThe Global Compact for Refugees adopted in 2018 should lead to a rethink on refugee protection.
\nThe Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, Volker T\u00fcrk, played a leading role in negotiating the UN refugee pact on behalf of the UNHCR. In an interview with Press Foreign Policy Director Christian Ultsch, he answers whether and, above all, how international solidarity in refugee protection can succeed in practice.<\/p>\n
Dr Volker T\u00fcrk holds a doctorate in international law from the University of Vienna. He was a research assistant at the Institute for International Law at the University of Linz and at the Institute for Criminal Law at the University of Linz. He has numerous publications on international refugee law and human rights. As Deputy UN High Commissioner for Refugees, he is Austria's highest UN official.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DER UN-FL\u00dcCHTLINGSPAKT MEHR SOLIDARIT\u00c4T IM FL\u00dcCHTLINGSSCHUTZ MUSS M\u00d6GLICH SEIN Begr\u00fc\u00dfung: Georg Lennkh, Vorstandsmitglied des Kreisky Forums Keynote: Volker T\u00fcrk, Stellvertretender Fl\u00fcchtlingshochkommissar f\u00fcr Schutzfragen, UNHCR Anschlie\u00dfendes Gespr\u00e4ch mit Christian Ultsch, Au\u00dfenpolitik-Chef DIE PRESSE In vielen Industrienationen stehen heute Grenzschutz und Abschottung hoch im Kurs. Gleichzeitig wird nach wie vor der Gro\u00dfteil (85%) aller Fl\u00fcchtlinge weltweit von […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[43],"class_list":["post-4153","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","hentry","schwerpunkt-internationale-politik-europa-und-sicherheit","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n