Name: 【TED】David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character (The refugee crisis is a test of our character | David Miliband)
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I'm going to speak to you about the global refugee crisis

and my aim is to show you that this crisis

but also show you that this is as much about us and who we are

as it is a trial of the refugees on the front line.

For me, this is not just a professional obligation,

because I run an NGO supporting refugees and displaced people around the world.

Yet 70 years on, the wheel has come full circle.

humanitarian values and principles on fire

in the very countries that 70 years ago said never again

to statelessness and hopelessness for the victims of war.

24 more people were displaced from their homes

the Taliban on the rampage in Afghanistan,

girls driven from their school in northeast Nigeria by Boko Haram.

These are not people moving to another country

that the world's most famous refugee can't come to speak to you here today.

a Syrian refugee who died in the Mediterranean in 2015.

He died alongside 3,700 others trying to get to Europe.

but it's not too late for millions of others.

It's not too late for people like Frederick.

I met him in the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania.

He wanted to know where could he complete his studies.

He'd done 11 years of schooling. He wanted a 12th year.

He said to me, "I pray that my days do not end here

living in the Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus.

and now she's a refugee herself in Lebanon.

She's working for the International Rescue Committee to help other refugees,

This talk is about Frederick, about Halud

how they survive, what help they need and what our responsibilities are.

that the biggest question in the 21st century

the world is more connected than ever before,

displaced from their homes by violence and persecution last year.

that would be the 21st largest country in the world.

Most of those people, about 40 million, stay within their own home country,

That means they cross a border into a neighboring state.

Most of them are living in poor countries,

relatively poor or lower-middle-income countries, like Lebanon,

In Lebanon, one in four people is a refugee,

I went to what was the world's largest refugee camp, in eastern Kenya.

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【TED】David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character (The refugee crisis is a test of our character | David Miliband)

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