In which
John Green discusses the
Syrian refugee crisis and the growing number of refugees from
Syria,
Afghanistan, and
Eritrea crossing the sea with the help of smugglers to seek refuge in
European Union nations.
Also discussed:
The difference between migrants and refugees, the rights of refugees as established by international law, the globalization of all regional crises, and how the death of 3-year-old
Alan Kurdi galvanized the world.
PLACES TO GIVE:
The
UNHCR:
http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general/#_ga=1.29610806.829388110.1441552177
Save the Children fundraiser created by author
Patrick Ness: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=PatrickNess
SOURCES:
Most of the stats and graphs in this video came from the
United Nations'
High Commission on Refugees: http://www.unhcr.org.uk/about-us/key-facts-and-figures
.html
Overview of the
EU's struggle with migrants and refugees from the
BBC: http://www
.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24583286
Another overview from the
Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-six-charts-that-show-where-refugees-are-coming-from-where-they-are-going-and-how-they-are-getting-to-europe-10482415.html
An incredibly complicated guide to whose supporting whom in the
Syrian Civil War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
Immigrants to the
U.S. are less likely to commit crimes than other
Americans: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mythical-connection-between-immigrants-and-crime-1436916798
Understanding the
difference between migrants and refugees, and the legal obligations we have to refugees: http://www.unhcr.org/55df0e556.html
The UNHCR maps a plan forward from
Europe that I quote from extensively: http://www.unhcr.org/55e9459f6.html
The
1951 Refugee Convention that I mistakenly called a
Commission in the video: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49da0e466.html
Information about the horrifying human rights abuses by Eritrea's government: https://www.hrw.org/africa/eritrea and http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/
Pages/DisplayNews
.aspx?NewsID=16054&LangID;=E
Yes,
Bashar al Assad's government in Syria has tortured children and used chemical weapons: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/
2011/05/201153185927813389.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack (
Link contains explicit images of death)
Joseph Stalin probably never said that thing about one death being a tragedy and a thousand (or million) deaths being a statistic, but I quoted it the way a
Soviet historian did: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Thanks as always to
Rosianna Halse Rojas (http://www.youtube.com/rosianna), whose data-gathering and fact-checking made this video possible. If you read the entire dooblydoo, you get a gold star.
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- published: 08 Sep 2015
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