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A fairer way to help refugees

25/05/2016 GMT

The Inquiry: Would A New International Convention Help Refugees?

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Luara Ferracioli explains the best way to deal with the refugees crisis

Luara Ferracioli says the only way to deal with refugees is to distribute numbers more fairly around the world.

As the world grapples with a new refugee crisis, and the largest numbers of displaced people since World War Two, many think the UN’s 65-year old Refugee Convention isn’t working. In this excerpt from The Inquiry, political philosopher Luara Ferracioli says the only way to deal with refugees is to distribute numbers more fairly around the world.

(Photo: A Somali father and his daughter queue to register at Dadaab in Kenya, the world's largest refugee camp. Credit: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)

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