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본 연설은 필리포 그란디 유엔 난민 고등 판무관님이 2024년 6월 24일 나이로비 대학에서 학생들을 대상으로 한 연설을 살짝 편집한 것입니다. 

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Glossary

1. high commissioner for refugees: (유엔) 난민 고등판무관

2. UNHCR: 유엔난민기구 (=United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

3. the Refugee Convention: 난민협약

4. Georgetown Universtiy: 조지타운 대학교

Script

Ladies and gentlemen,

What a privilege and a great pleasure to be here today! I have been looking forward so much to this event. I think you all know — and can imagine — that I speak in many places. But I specially value opportunities to speak at universities, for the ideas and the energies which universities generate, for your enthusiasm and willingness to innovate. And we cannot talk about “solutions” — you will hear this word many times in the next half hour! —  without considering the critical role that the academic community has to play.

You all know what I do — I have a rather grand and a bit old-fashioned title, “high commissioner for refugees”. It means essentially that I lead UNHCR, the main refugee institution of the United Nations and indeed of the international system. UNHCR is the custodian[u1]  of fundamental refugee rights, as enshrined in important legal instruments; like the Refugee Convention. It is a big humanitarian agency, helping states respond to refugee crises; but it is also an organization tasked to work with governments, and other stakeholders, to find sustainable, rightful solutions — sometimes temporary, sometimes durable ones — to the problems of people who are forced to flee because of war, persecution and many forms of violence, and of course of those who are generously hosting them — like you have done for decades here in Kenya. And there are many such forcibly displaced people in our troubled world: 120 million at our latest count, including refugees and people who seek refuge within their own country, whom we call internally displaced. 120 million: more than double, if I am not mistaken, the population of Kenya!

You may be asking yourselves — how are refugees an issue of common concern to me, to you? Well, in recent years and in many countries, especially in some countries of the so-called “global North”, the issue of forced displacement has been at the centre of the political debate. Unfortunately, very often, this is not the result of healthy politics — which should look at solutions for this challenge — but of political manipulation — which aims mostly at gaining votes and winning elections.

Earlier this month, at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC, I spoke of large-scale movements of people — a big problem in the Americas – of refugees and migrants together across continents, along routes that are literally “hemispheric”, in search of safety or opportunity. I spoke of the very real dangers that these people face — violence, extortion[u2] , torture, even death — as they travel overseas, or through deserts and jungles. Often at the mercy of criminals, smugglers, traffickers.

You may remember the terrible images of refugees and migrants languishing in [u3] abusive detention centres in Libya, broadcasted by media a few years back, sending waves of outrage across the world — especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, we continue to see desperate people literally selling their lives to criminal traffickers. And they are just the tip of the iceberg of the “forced displacement” phenomenon.

This is why, at Georgetown University, I set out the concrete actions that can be taken to address root causes, stabilize population flows, protect forcibly displaced people as they move and provide them with opportunities. Because we must recognize that opportunities exist. That solutions exist. And they do not concern only the people on the move. They concern all of us, whether we are refugees or not. Forced displacement and irregular migration are global issues, as important for our future — for your future — as climate change, pandemics or peace and security.

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 [u1]관리인

 [u2]갈취

 [u3]…으로 고통스러워하다, 괴로운 나날을 보내다.