📚 Ys Mirage 🌍In the 1990s, extremists aiming to change Bosnia and Herzegovina’s demographic map through “ethnic cleansing” terrorized civilians into leaving their homes. Horrified at witnessing violent forced displacement in real time and wanting to stop it, the then-UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata extolled a new principle she called "preventive protection" and used the term “right to remain.”
Like Ogata 30 years ago, my organization, Human Rights Watch, along with countless others, has been trying to mobilize international action to stop further mass atrocities.
Neighboring Egypt’s borders are mostly closed, too. Only a relatively few Gaza residents have been allowed to enter Egypt through the Rafah crossing, including foreign passport holders, the wounded and their companions, and some who have paid exorbitant sums to flee via Egypt. Not wanting a wave of refugees flooding into his country, especially given the prospect that the Israeli authorities might bar them from returning,