THE Archbishop of Canterbury will attempt to persuade the Government to adopt a ten-year international plan to tackle the refugee crisis, illegal migration, and human trafficking. The second calls for a ten-year strategy to address the global refugee crisis by working “in collaboration with signatories to the Refugee Convention or any other international agreement on the rights of refugees”. Archbishop Welby says that the amendments have cross-party support. It is the global nature of the refugee problem that Archbishop Welby is seeking to persuade the Government to acknowledge by his amendments. In his Times article, he writes: “The crisis is global, vast, and long term.

Source: The Times May 24, 2023 08:28 UTC