Opinion:


Cities should stand with


refugees By Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Canada Representative


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Most images of refugees profile life in camps, filled with makeshift tents made of plastic sheets. Women with infants are pictured in health clinics run by humanitarian organizations. Sometimes, images of children behind wire fences, separated from the rest of the population, are also publicized to describe how some host countries are reluctantly accepting refugees.


None of these images are forged. But they hide the reality that most displaced persons live in urban centres. Cities are the first port of call for two-thirds of those fleeing war, violence or persecution.


I witnessed this first-hand when working in Lebanon: almost one-third of the more than one million Syrian refugees had found refuge


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