APQ Human Migration Donna, Trevor, Longan

Current events update Positions Blocs Measures to address internal migration, with an emphasis on mitigating the consequences of rural to urban shifts in less developed countries Current events update March 6, 2018 - Lack of water in Cape Town and the sudden rural to urban migration played a huge role in dealing with the crisis March 16 2018 - India is currently under another rural-urban migration crisis with imperialism and industrialization playing a critical role in the mode of their crisis Positions On January 1st, Leaders of Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, and Spain (Southern Seven) met in Rome to discuss the problems currently in the EU, which entailed the issue of the migration crisis prevalent in most European nations Blocs Italy’s presidential election could be partly affected by Italy’s current internal migration crisis By 2050, densely populated regions such as in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America could potentially force 140 million migrants to move from rural areas to urban areas within each countries.

Current Events Update Position Update Blocs Facilitating the assimilation and protecting the rights of newly-arrived refugees and asylum seekers in Western Europe Current Events Update As of mid-March 2018, Italy has decided to temporarily close its hotspot refugee center, Lampedusa, as a result of protests carried out by migrants and refugees on abuses of rights and terrible conditions. According to UNHCR’s flash update on Libya, 785 migrants and refugees have been disembarked in Libya by the Libyan Coast Guard, with a total of 3441 so far in 2018 alone. Position Update UNHCR 2018 Projected Global Resettlement Needs Blocs Germany remains as the largest refugee country in Western Europe Fighting continues in Syria, where 2.9 million people remain in areas where aid is not supplied on a regular basis. As of March 15th, Syria enters its eighth year in the Syrian civil war. The number of refugees continues to climb. On January 23, Donald Trump signed executive orders that threatened the rights of immigrants and refugees. On January 27, Trump signs “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals”, which aims to lessen the amount of refugees.

Evaluating the legal status of so-called “climate change refugees” Events April 22- Cape town is expected to run out of water at this time, which will likely cause many of the citizens to be forced to leave. Positions There has been little involvement from the UN on solving the topic as a whole. Blocs 1.1 million refugees arrived in Germany throughout 2015, making it one of the largest safe havens for refugees world-wide. Hungary has taken a strong stance opposing the immigration of refugees as a majority of the nation believes that “Europe's Christian heritage is under threat,” due to an assumption that most of the migrants are Muslim. Germany has taken a rather open stance to accepting refugees as they believe that they are “Fulfilling its international humanitarian duty,” according to prime minister Merkel.

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