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Refugee with toddler in the Kara Tepe camp on Lesbos
Photo: Murat Tueremis / laif
The Geneva Refugee Convention was created in response to the Holocaust.
Their undersigned swore in 1951 that the world community should never again leave people as lonely as the Jews in Germany during National Socialism.
With the expansion of the Geneva Convention, opponents of the Soviet regime found refuge in the West, and displaced persons from Vietnam or Syria began a new life in Europe.
The Geneva Refugee Convention is one of the great civilizational achievements of the post-war period.
But just before her 70th birthday in July, she is facing the end.
Fewer and fewer states feel bound by their rules.
Under President Donald Trump, the United States has largely withdrawn from the programs of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Australia holds refugees trapped on islands off its coast.
The European Union made a humanitarian effort in 2015 when it took in more than a million refugees, mostly from the Middle East.
Since then, however, EU states have sealed off their borders.
With the help of the European border protection agency Frontex, Greece releases migrants at sea, Italy sends boat refugees back to Libya, where they are tortured and executed by militias.
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