An Outlook Approach on Human Rights - Migrants and Refugees

Abstract

Human Rights are those minimal rights that individual need to have against the State or other Public ascendancy by virtue of their being members of the human family, irrespective of any other consideration.Human rights today have acquired legitimacy and significance in the external relations of the world community, but also in the domestic relations between the State and its citizens. Current migration flows have placed the issue of migration high on the international agenda. The magnitude and complexity of the phenomenon is such that international migration can no longer be considered peripheral to the mainstream of development policies. The Syria conflict has triggered the world’s largesthumanitarian crisis of our generation. Today, every country is affected in some way by migration either as country of origin, transit or destination, or sometimes a combination of these. International migrants are a heterogeneous group. The growth of cities in the developing world is often built on the labour of migrants, but they seldom share fully in the wealth that is created. Exclusion is exacerbated by political systems that do not give equal voice to all urban residents (temporary or permanent), and by social systems that privilege some people according to gender, ethnicity or other affiliations. Refugees are not receiving the support and services they need and the neighbouring countries increasingly feel that they are being left alone to deal with the crisis, including grave risks to their own stability. This paper gives an outlook approach on Human Rights, Migrants and Refugees.

Keywords: Human Rights, Syria conflict, Displaced persons, Migrants, Refugees.