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Article: Social integration: a major challenge for host countries. (integration of refugees, World Summit for Social Development)
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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Refugees and displaced persons were among the most tragic victims of social disintegration and closing borders was net going to make the problem go away, High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata told the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen on 10 March.
And. she said, ranks of the world's 23 million refugees would continue to swell unless Governments tackled the root causes of displacement, supported aid programmes in host countries, and promoted the social integration of those returning to their homelands.
She said: "Social stability is not threatened by refugees, but by human rights violations and gross social inequities which uproot ...