While the international refugee regime is anchored in the 1951 Refugee Convention and the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Convention is silent on the question of state culpability, and the UNHCR’s Statute established its entirely non-political character.
Seize the money of Venezuelan kleptocrats to help the country and its people
The world should look to the graft-lined pocketbooks of the Venezuelan officials who created the crisis in order to help its victims.