The third session of the Talks on Migration Series organized by Jean Monnet Module on European and International Migration Law has been held online on October 15, 2020
Akif Atlı, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR), was the keynote speaker and he delivered a speech titled Refugees / Our Guests: Our Acquaintances and Differences During This Time.
It was a very productive talk with wide participation.
The talk covered a short summary of efforts for refugee protection in Turkey with specific references to legal basis, facts and social cohesion difficulties with a wide focus covering the society, government and international community’s contributions.
Specifically, Mr. Atlı shared the numbers and comparisons with other social facts, preparations of a refugee crisis and daily difficulties with unprecedented solution efforts.
While Mr. Atlı was highlighting that each and every individual that lives in the host country contribute to the protection of refugees, he explained that the protection of the refugees refers to the instance in which the refugees are able to access to fundamental human rights like non-refoulement, right to registration, right to education, right to health and right to work. In addition, Mr. Atlı stated that the refugees can only exercise their rights emerging from their temporary protection status in their place of domicile.
Mr. Atlı has pointed out that these rights bring some obligations along to refugees like informing local administrative organs relating to current changes and exercising rights within the procedural laws of the host country.
During his speech, Mr. Atlı has touched upon various difficulties that has arisen in the social cohesion of refugees. He pointed out that these difficulties can be handled though a healthy communication among governments, citizens and refugees.
At the end of his speech, a very fruitful Q&A session has been carried out.
A huge thanks to Mr. Atlı and all participants!
You can watch the video below to listen the whole talk.