Borderline disorder: the UN’s refugee treaty at 70

The Intelligence from The Economist

• Episode: Borderline disorder: the UN’s refugee treaty at 70
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• Duration: 00:22:47
• Published: 2021-07-28 12:13

An international convention devised after the second world war is ill-suited to the refugee crises of today—and countries are increasingly unwilling to meet their obligations. Vancouver’s proposed response to a spate of drug overdoses is a sweeping decriminalisation; we ask whether the plan would work. And the bid to save a vanishingly rare “click language” in Africa.

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