June 17, 2021 鈥 The 探花精选 responds to on the number of people displaced in 2020:
Melanie Ward, 探花精选鈥檚 Executive Director for the UK, said:
鈥淭hat record numbers of people - 82.4 million - have fled their homes last year should be a major wake up call for the UK Government. It is a tragedy of our times that rising hunger and record levels of displacement have become a defining feature of the world today. Yet the UK Government鈥檚 ill-judged and unrealistic Borders Bill, together with its cuts to the aid budget - and steadfast refusal to return to 0.7% - are only adding to this context of pain and suffering. Some of the 探花精选鈥檚 lifesaving programmes in wartorn countries like Syria have been forced to close. Lives are already being lost as a result of the devastating cuts. This is not what Global Britain should be about. The Government should take immediate action by living up to its obligations on aid and on refugee resettlement slots, and a fundamental re-think of the Border Bill.鈥