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Originally posted by Yoggit: ↑

UK interior minister to question role of UN refugee convention

UK interior minister Suella Braverman was on Tuesday to question whether the United Nations Refugee Convention was "fit for our modern age" during a keynote speech at a US think-tank in Washington.

The speech at the centre-right American Enterprise Institute is intended to lay out an international plan to deal with the refugee crisis, a key political issue for her struggling Conservative party back home.

Braverman is set to call the UN convention "an incredible achievement of its age", according to extracts released to the British media.

"But more than 70 years on, we now live in a completely different time," she was to say, citing a study that says the convention now gives 780 million people the potential right to move to another country.

"It is therefore incumbent upon politicians and thought leaders to ask whether the Refugee Convention, and the way it has come to be interpreted through our courts, is fit for our modern age. Or whether it is in need of reform.

"Western countries will not be able to sustain an asylum system "if in effect simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin is sufficient to qualify for protection", she was to add.
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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/uk-interior-minister-to-question-role-of-un-refugee-convention/news-story/182f5b4abbd6e3ed713530cfbe4f9570I think this is well overdue.

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No more rapefugees or refugees anywhere in the world.

An end to the Burgertory buggery and butchery.

No more hate marchers and all these useless wars would be stopped as well.

Breaverman should be the English Prime Minister not ridiculous Rashi.
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