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UN official urges global compact on refugee and asylum matters

Oct 09, 2015, at 02:39 pm

New York, Oct 9 (IBNS): The top protection expert in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday warned of a growing risk to people fleeing conflict and persecution and called for "an all-out effort to ensure that protection, and in particular the institution of asylum, remains life-saving, non-political, and fundamentally humanitarian."