Melissa Fleming

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

Recent events in the Mediterranean have been deeply troubling. More than 1,700 people have died or gone missing while trying to reach Europe’s shores this year.

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

Rescue at sea – a marker of our shared humanity – has been taken hostage by politics. Responsibility-sharing has been replaced by responsibility-shedding. - @RefugeesChief appealing for rescue at sea to be fully restored. https://t.co/DFhm7NpFi3

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

Today, when I engage with the leaders of countries neighbouring those in crisis, how am I to tell them to take more people, when some in richer countries are discussing how to close their doors? - @RefugeesChief to a packed room of UNHCR member States at @UNGeneva #WithRefugees

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

...Children separated from their parents, leaving psychological scars that will last a lifetime. Asylum-seekers stranded at border fences, or detained indefinitely, having committed no crime. Refugees dehumanised, treated as a commodity, passed from one state to another....

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

Yet further afield, often in rich countries, the trend is towards making it difficult for people to seek asylum - even by closing borders and pushing people away." - @RefugeesChief https://t.co/wJaviNun6V

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

"Neighbouring countries have largely - although not invariably - kept their borders open, receiving and hosting refugees with generosity, despite enormous constraints." -@RefugeesChief https://t.co/PQKewdbh2i

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

"Political leadership should strive to unite, but now - too often - prides itself on dividing… Yet, amidst so much adversity, multilateralism has held its ground.” @RefugeesChief #withrefugees https://t.co/9PmZSouS7T

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

"The language of politics has become ruthless, giving licence to discrimination, racism, xenophobia. Refugees and migrants have become targets and casualties of power-driven agendas." -@RefugeesChief #WithRefugees https://t.co/TLqLlSDBDa

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 01/10/2018

"I am at the midpoint of my mandate. I look back, and the state of the world does not look good…” @RefugeesChief start to his speech to the annual UNHCR Executive Committee https://t.co/XeIuwI4bU1

Melissa Fleming

@melissarfleming - 30/09/2018

@HarryCook Thank you, Harry, for reading Doaa's remarkable story and for spreading the word!