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Item Details
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RESCUE
REFUGEES AND THE POLITICAL CRISIS OF OUR TIME |
| By: |
David Miliband |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1471170489 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781471170485 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD |
| Pub. date: |
14 November, 2017 |
| Series: |
TED 2 |
| Pages: |
120 |
| Description: |
We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis. As head of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband has first-hand insight on the current crisis, what we can do about it as ordinary citizens and how, by aiding refugees, we affirm the essential values of a global society. |
| Synopsis: |
Rescue addresses one of the most challenging questions facing the world today: how to cope with the rising tide of people forced to leave their homes by conflict. This urgent and timely missive comes from former Foreign Secretary and current CEO of the hugely effective International Rescue Committee. Rescue looks at the lives of 65 million people currently displaced by war in places like Syria, Afghanistan and Congo, and explains why they are fleeing their homes; what conditions they are living in; and what should be done to help them. It is a call for international compassion and international action to meet a truly global problem. But this book is also about us. What we in western countries stand for; what it says when western countries say they will admit refugees; and what it says when they say they won't. There are more refugees and displaced people than ever before. They are dying in greater numbers in transit to safety. They are more mistrusted. They are accused of plotting terrorism, blamed for Brexit. This is a far cry from the liberal, enlightened internationalism of the post-Second World War world. Refugee law and refugee protection were designed by western countries after the Second World War. We said 'never again' to statelessness; to estrangement; to hopelessness. And now that law is under siege in the countries that designed it.This work of rescue is important not just for the people on the receiving end of aid. By rescuing people from war and its consequences, we will rescue and renew the values that have been essential to the success of western countries over the last two hundred years. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster Ltd |
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Returnable |
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