Humanitarian Crisis Research Paper

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Within recent years, refugees fleeing from their home countries because of political reasons, on boats with severe conditions, increased immensely, and the Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian Committee needs to tackle the problem of maritime refugees immediately to provide the refugees with safety and security to ensure their basic human rights. Search for missing refugees and rescue of the drowning refugees have been continued and the number of reported deaths declined. However, the issue of taking in refugees to helping countries is still a problem. As sisterly Islamic countries are in a threat, we, Bahrain hope that urgent solutions are found and that this humanitarian crisis comes to an end.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, them being Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and, UAE, have taken humanitarian action by hosting around three million Syrian refugees, allowing access to free education, healthcare, and employment. Bahrain itself has taken in 355 refugees in total, which is very little compared to other refugee accepting countries. The reason for accepting limited number of refugees is that the large influx of refugees can be a serious threat to the citizens,
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Bahrain would like to continue its financial support to Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Egypt as former UNHCR, António Guterres calls for massive investment toward those countries in order to prevent refugees from slipping into further destitution. Also, Bahrain would like to make more and constant contributions to the UNHCR as it had not before to aid not only the countries in the Middle East, but to distant countries in Southeast Asia and to countries around it. The delegate of Bahrain feels that each and every nation should take suitable measures depending on their country to solve this

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