Mr. Winter lists the elements of a common agenda the United States and other nations should pursue to strengthen the worlds response. He calls upon us to: "First. strengthen the multilateral humanitarian Institutions. second. advance and Institutionalize International protection and assistance for internally displaced people. third. promote successful repatriation and reintergration of refugees and Internally displaced people. and fourth. ensure that victims of human conflict in the poorest. least strategically Important countries of the world dont continue to be Ignored." I commend USCR for its vigilance and compassion. and urge my colleagues to read carefully the Surveys "Year In Review." an excerpt from which I ask to be reprinted below: There is increasing evidence that the apparent demise of the Cold War and the fear of collapse in the Soviet Union have combined to cost most refugees and displaced people whatever strategic value they may once have had. Several observers have suggested with respect to refugees and displaced people that. because the conceptual structure that defined "our interests" has changed. so too has our will to respond. It is increasingly clear that for many in the bestoff nations of the world. the humanitarian needs of the poorest of the poor. those of least strategic importance. are fading from the even miniscule view they were formerly afforded. For most of us. the plight of Africas victims. for example. is just not an issue. just as the gassing of the Kurds was not when it first came to world attention in 1988. Refugees worldwidebut especially in the less visible spotshave seen their actual level of care degraded. education of their children eliminated. their dependency deepened. It is critically important for those interested in humanitarian concerns generally. and humanitarian concerns in the third and fourth worlds specifically. to fight back. to organize to ensure that whatever "new world order" emerges from todays confusion and change adequately responds to the vulnerable uprooted victims of human conflict.
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