The world needs a global migration organisation to regulate and supervise the movement of peoples. [Reposted from openDemocracy, May 2003]
Is the Coalition winning the peace in Iraq? This question, on the minds of many American and British officials and citizens, as well as others around the world, has been
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- Even before the fighting had finished in Iraq, USAID (the American governments aid agency) had awarded $900 million in contracts to private companies to undertake reconstruction
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- Iraq will be the subject of the largest food assistance programme ever undertaken by the WFP.
- Some $500 million in contributions for food assistance has been
People move. This self-evident proposition cannot, of course, capture the almost limitless nuances associated with large numbers of individuals crossing national borders. According to the United Nations, there are more
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- Specialised UN agencies such as UNHCR (refugees), Unicef (children), and WFP (food) have legal mandates that enable them to resume their humanitarian work, as long as security
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- The Iraq war has generated no significant refugee flows as yet, but large numbers of Kurds (in the north) and Shia (in the south) were already
The US-led war on Iraq has already spawned a variety of deep uncertainties in the region. The Jordanian government in particular is keenly aware of the political, security and humanitarian
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- British military and humanitarian relief agencies have allocated some $150m so far for humanitarian operations.
- Unlike its US counterpart, Britains Department for International Development sees
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- A 2001 government census reported that Iran hosted more refugees than any country in the world most from Afghanistan and Iraq.
- The UNHCR plans to set
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- The Turkish government has been preparing for months for a refugee exodus from northern Iraq, and has already set up 18 refugee camps
- The Turkish Red
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- The US military has pre-positioned non-food relief supplies for one million people in the region, and (with Iraq in mind) organised a new Pentagon Office of Reconstruction
