[UNHCR] Rejection of Ideas with Problems

Written by IRNA

The council of UNHCR is focused on dealing with refugee abuse of exploitation. In the past day of debate, there have been many different unique ideas, as well as much refining of present ideas, to address the issue of such. However, with many unique ideas, they also come with many rejected ideas that do not address the issue effectively, and along with that valid reasons as to why that is so.

A small note for readers, that we must not forget that despite each solution having its own problems. Solutions can be used together in conjunction to solve an issue in a better and more effective way. Here is a quote, from Sun Tzu in his book, the art of war, “There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”

One of the topics that the UNHCR discussed was how can refugees be integrated into the workforce of their host country, to remove the stereotype of refugees being a burden to the host country. 

However, the problems of such an idea is that it cannot be implemented on the short notice, meaning that it would only be effective in the long term, as in order to integrate refugees into the workforce, education must be provided for the refugees, such that they can use it to apply for jobs.

Another issue would be the fact that there is a language barrier between the refugees and the host country’s people, as most refugees speak their native language, and to hire translators for them would cost too much resources for the hosting country, along with the fact that translators for such niche languages are scarce therefore is not viable in integration of refugees.

As such, the idea was refined by the delegates, such that the countries will conduct language lessons to the refugees, and should the countries not have enough resources to follow through with such a plan, international support can be provided from other countries to allow the plan to follow through.

To add to the above points, there may be chances that there would be corrupt officers in the separate entity, who may engage in illegal human trafficking. This would cause many problems as it would render all time and resources wasted put into the entity as wasted. This, however, was considered by the delegates in the UNHCR. When asked the question of how they might deal with this corruption, the delegate of Croatia replying that governments can use the data on the level of corruption and reflect on what they can improve on, likely such that the officials will have a reason to follow the government’s will and not submit to the “darker side”


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