Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield Recounts a Visit with Refugees on the Syria-Turkey Border

On July 28, USIP hosted U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield to reflect on the 70th anniversary of the Refugee Convention and its critical importance in the current global context.

To learn more about this event, please visit: https://www.usip.org/events/convention-refugees-70-conversation-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield

"I was at the Syria border and I saw the extraordinary work that was being done by humanitarian workers, NGOs, United Nations, as well as local organizations to support people who were in need. And I asked the question, and I've repeated this several times so people have heard it over and over again, but it really had an impact on me. I said, How are people coping with COVID in light of everything else that is happening? And one of the organizations said they were told by a refugee woman that COVID was just another reason to die. And that struck me, it was like a stab in the heart, that people are not necessarily so worried about COVID because there's so many other reasons for them to die, that COVID is just another one on top of everything else that they have to deal with. And I think that is really a message for, for the international community that we absolutely need to continue to support these populations in need."

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