Let’s Help Refugees Thrive, Not Just Survive | Melissa Fleming | TED Talks
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Today's refugee crisis is the biggest since World War II, and it's growing. When this talk was given, 50 million people had been forcefully displaced from their homes by conflict and war; as of 2021, the number grew to more than 82 million. There were three million Syrian refugees in 2014; now there are 5.5 million languishing in neighboring countries. Inside this overwhelming crisis are the individual human stories -- of care, growth and family, in the face of lost education, lost home, lost future. Melissa Fleming of the United Nations tells the refugees' stories -- and asks us to help them rebuild their world.
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I agree that she had told the vast majority of people everything right, but it would have been better, if she had suggested a reason why they need to help the refugees thrive. They need to be educated, they need to be well-treated, and we understand that becuase we all are human beings in the world we live in. But it would have been more specific, if she had made a point on why the refugees can stop the armed gangs and why they can make a better world for their next generation. The reason maybe is that there would be nobody who knows better about what it is like to deal with the severe hardship: homes destroyed, family died, no food, no education, etc than people who take all these things that they couldn't get for granted. I respect what she told us on the TED stage.
Comparatively, it's far easier for Lebanon to take in Syrian refugees because their history, culture, genealogy, etc. are intimately related. Simply saying "everyone else should be like Lebanon" is facile.
I think we need to look past culture, race and religion when taking in refugees. Sure it might be easier for Lebanon, but all countries must learn the values of humanity.
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african and muslim countries must learn the values of humanity
@@user-ej3iw8lw3w no doubt. and its so sad that muslim countries don't help their muslim brothers and sisters in despair
American bombs nearly all the world and u accuse them instead? Talk about privellage @@user-ej3iw8lw3w
Wow @ all the comments. Missing the whole point of this video!
The Capital/Fascist Imperium produced war and with the rafugees - through dogsbody - make political manipulation! That was the case in Yugoslavia and is the case all over the world! *Pray for our politicians* because they are under great pressure by Capital/Fascist!
*Down, down, down antichristian Babylon!*
*Down, down, down islamo/fascistic Babylon!*
*Down, down, down antichristian Babylon!*
A lovely, compassionate woman.
OUR refugee life stories seem the same. We live haplessly, but strive because people like Melissa got our back. There was a time I called myself non human being because of bad life am facing in refugee camp.
Are you fine / safe now??
you are brainwashed and cant fix your countries after the usa globalists destroy it.. then they send you to other countries when you have 0 useful skillsets and demand everyone takes care of you.
All are welcome except Islamists.
Its not just refugees who have lives of monotony.
Agreed with the comment below send em to her house she can help them.
A beautiful message, one that I hope enters the heart of many others. Thank you Melissa Fleming.
Really? I personally think it's spoiled chattering class claptrap .
lol wow you need better role models
Teach this triple truth to all, a generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are things which renew humanity !!
Right speech leads to truth and understanding! Proper understanding leads to wisdom! good behavior results in good faith! right livelihood leads to sharing ,! The right absorption leads to unity! This simple words teaches us to shine our light! !!!
Help the refugees to stay in their countries ! THAT would be humanity and generosity.
You mean inhuman and genocide. Try looking up "taharrush gamea" please.
very true
so sad to see all the lack of empathy some people have... there is a book out called The Lottery of Birth. Count your blessings you were not born into a war torn country... Thanks to people like Melissa who can offer refuges a future... more often than not they really appreciate it so much more
Thanks for sharing. It's refreshing and hopeful to see and hear such compassionate and open minded people in the world. Living in America, surrounded by slothful ungrateful zombies, it is very discouraging. I appreciate all of the hard work and sacrifice people like you struggle to achieve in order to help others less fortunate.. THAT is what being a human being is all about. Many blessings.
Really interesting and inspiring, we need more people thinking like she. We have too much to learn from refugees.
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yes.
전달력이 정말 대단하시네... 역시 유엔에서 일하시는 분들은 말씀하시는게 뚜렷하고 깔끔하다..
an excellent talk. some very important points.
There is better way to help refugee not just survive but make lives for themselves and there family. We just need to take action
Lets not!
you didnt even watched it till the end
SagIch Nicht I don't understand what your saying are you a refugee?
Ms. Fleming, your talk is absolutely important!! I congratulate you for your ideas. They're fantastic. If people of the world think about everything you say, there will be peace and solutions for many tragedies all over the world . Thank you for everything!
Great presentation presented by great people with a generous heart, great voice .Thank you . But also,i hope Refugees will have better life and there'll be some solutions for this problem as soon as possible
You're a disgrace to the western cultures of the world smh :|
+AllTime Warrior I'm an Asian , so that's my individual opinion . You better think thoughtfully before saying something , so I don't debate with you anymore because it's such a waste of time
+AllTime Warrior If you're a product of those western cultures then, really, they can't be all that great.
your gonna be answering your own first couple questions when someone will ask you in several years. a refugee I helped.
we must evrhfdya do what we can to inspire and help others
People should focus to stop the action (wars) that caused the people become refugees. Otherwise, there will be more and more refugees that we can't save faster enough than the war kills. It is like stray dog issue. People (dog owners) are the ones should be educated. Not ask the animal saving group or people to save more dogs/cats/horses. So, those politicians and people who make weapons to make money are the ones who should pay for.
- we are Syrians in Malaysia the UN here just give most of us an appointment in 2016
and now we are illegal here and can't work legally and the UN don't give us any help or support and some of us didn't even got the refuge card so he must pay a bribe to police man when he got stopped by them
- And Malaysia refuse to help refugees or give them asylum
- In Malaysia there isn't any Syrian who got an asylum in any country from the beginning of the civil war in Syria thats three years ago
does anyone now how I could get in contact with her I would like to ask her some questions for my school project
How did your project go?
Tony Abbott so needs to watch this and realise refugees to Australia are victims, not criminals and don't deserve to be treated as though they are.
+Alice Rabbit no I'm not anti white. Place yourself or one of your family members in a refugees shoes, like really do it. Then tell me you feel the same. If you do, then I feel sorry for you. They are humans, not locusts. Just because you were born into better circumstances doesn't mean you deserve it more than they do.
+Alice Rabbit
To continue this thread of conversation with you could be likened to speaking sense to a madman/woman. It saddens me that your pig headed mindset is incapable of hearing even the slightest voice of reason I must choose the most efficient response for myself and my time when dealing with lost causes such as yourself, and let sleeping dogs lay. May you find a kinder viewpoint in the near future. I'd hate to think I had the chance to speak wisdom to someone only to leave no mark on their moral compass. Good luck in life. I'm sorry your view is so corrupt and I hope your influence is naught for humanities future.
Peace out yo!
Hi I really liked your presentation. I am also a refugee supporter. You inspired me to help them thrive not just survive.
I am not a refugee supporter-why should I be?
+Hello Hello If you want to help people who need it the most you could be.
They want to behave your off-spring, rape your daughters, instate sharia law and Islam in your home countries.
My Civics teacher saw this live in Rio and even interviewed her
"we own the science".
as a refugee, i totally agree with her. the same thing what happened with hani happened to me, when my village was destroyed completely, and i have to leave my village with my high school certificate. it is so sad to see young group of people quit school and majority of old people have to leave their own home taking nothing with them. and have no idea how their future would be. thanks for sharing this video.
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This woman... She's amazing!
Melissa Fleming what a wonderful lady you are!! If there are one real queen in the world, that should be you.
I'll help anyone - just as soon as I have helped myself. 99% of people in rich countries are poor.
+Justin Cayce How do you work that one out?
redant I'm afraid your question is too general for me to know exactly what you mean. if it helps, all I'm saying is - let them come, but Brits have been paying 30% tax + National Insurance into a system which keeps us all fairly secure but pretty poor. We( well - 99%) can't thrive in our own country. Can we include every refugee and migrant worker in this system? it's not that it's unfair for Brits to be forced by the Euro govt. to feed the whole world. - just that it is impossibly expensive and will destroy our British social system. This is the price of exchanging British sovereignty for a European dream. - Not that I'm keen on any flags. Flags cause wars. That's just how I "work that one out" - as you asked. I'm sure, as your tone seems to suggests, you can find something to disagree with.
+Justin Cayce I just wanted you to explain why you think that 99% of people in rich countries are poor when, quite plainly, it's not true. Some people are poorer than others, but that's not the same as being poor per se.
Where do these numbers come from?
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Hi Brother and Sister Help me I'm very worried I really need help I'm just worried about my situation I've been worried for five years No one has helped me yet I also want to do something in my life Please help me God bless you
where are your sleeves tho
Turkey feeds Syrians. They can resigster the school for free. I can't. They get monthly salary from the goverment. I can't. They can enter the exams for free. I can't. does this count restriction ? Because it is, for me
You have read about me I have taken political asylum in this country I've been worried for five years No one has helped me yet I need help so much brother I am not a beggar
I'm worried about my situation I have no one in this country I'm alone Help me for god's sake I'm very worried Can I leave this country? Because I am very worried in this country Here again you do me a favor Brother, I really need four things
No food + I have no clothes + I don't have a house to live in Need some cooking utensils You can't even think
How can I survive in such a situation?
I have nothing help me brother god bless you
no they say help the people, but mean steal the competent intelligent group and abandon everyone else. good luck
@@shaungrobbelaar I don't understand your meaning
@@fahadnazir3912 my point precisely.
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Children of refugee.
Who that Dislikes is not an Human.
Who that's dislikes is sane. Letting in 100,000's of people we don't know. Many of whom could be terrorists.
It's bot called inhuman. It's called keeping safe from outside forces, as if our severn duty.
just pray it away
With all due respect, I believe that initiating a conversation with questions about who killed the family and bombed the house is not an appropriate starting point, in my opinion.
Education is not so important as being aware of the age of abundance and the law of attraction if you want to thrive
What do you expect of a people so filled with hate and resent, but revenge? If the world wants to see and end to what is selectively defined as terrorism, ALL types of terrorism should first be stopped. Including the professional terrorism by the elite. Don't be so selfish and inhuman. Wake up from your slumber to the realities that are painting our world with blood. EVERYONE has to participate to make this world a better place.
I like this but not sure what her proposed solution is?
***** Thanks for sharing your experience of the video. What I got from her was that her organization is struggling just to get basic needs met and education is a luxury at this point.
Countries spending huge sums of money to send weapons into the conflict like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Emirates, UK, US & Russia should be 100% paying to resettle, feed and educate the refugees in my view. Thanks.
+Joe Segal So the population should pay for something the dumb government does? That's injustice itself
No, we have a lot of poor people in Europe. Maybe not in our own country but in neighboring countries. These are the people we should help first. By helping our neighbors we invest in a common future. People from other continents can not be our priority. Lebanon only provided these people with a place to live. Food, water and tents are provided by the UNHCR. They do not provide education, health care and a house as we are expected to, so the comparison is bogus.
you said it, Donald
Send them all to her house so she can help them thrive. We have enough problems.
and who are you?
I'm just someone that is a little more important than you, is all. Ciao.
The Capital/Fascist Imperium produced war and with the rafugees make political manipulation! That was the case in Yugoslavia and is the case all over the world!
Pray for our politicians because they are under great pressure by Capital/Fascist!
*Down, down, down antichristian Babylon!*
*Down, down, down islamo/fascistic Babylon!*
*Down, down, down antichristian Babylon!*
I just watched Melissa Fleming, UN spokesperson, saying during a WEF-hosted interview that, having "partnered with Google", the UN is pleased to announce that if you "Google Climate Change you will now get all kinds of UN resources". She goes on: "We were shocked to see that when we were Googling Climate Change we were getting all kinds of distorted information." Which sounds to me like: "We were shocked that anyone was allowed to challenge our monopoly on information." Finally she informs the interviewer that "We own the science and we think that the world should know it."
We own the science.
What next? Welcome to the new, post-free speech world order.
Refugee camps should be places where women can get basic education, and access to contraception in a form they can use. Condoms aren't it because they require the cooperation of the male.
40 mins before human rights paper.
As a refugee, I agree with every single word that she said. Also, the majority of refugees' stories are similar to Hani's story. They have so many goals and ambitions and education is crucial for them.
HELP SYRIAN REFUGEES facebook.com/salamsiria/
Then they should do it in in their own country
"Train for the day they can go home" But they don't want to go home, do they? Somalis have big families.
They will never go back
How can we help Hany?
Refugees come from places in the world where there is still a high fertility rate. Since WWII, the earth's human population has more than doubled. If the rest of the world had been doing what Australians have been doing for 40 years - keeping their reproduction down to fewer than two children per woman, there would be no world refugee crisis. Syria was allowing its population to grow, and then there was a drought.
Moving people into OECD countries does absolutely nothing to alleviate the world refugee crisis. As fast as one leaves for Europe or Australia, he is quickly replaced by two more babies - future refugees. The only thing that can reduce displacement is population reduction. The OECD countries have already done their share in the task of reducing the number of babies per woman. It is racial discrimination to fail to demand that the rest of the world do the same.
Everyone this should not need to be said; do you think extremists do what they do because they're religious? No, they do it because there is a charismatic, twisted guy in charge. Being religious is just a good way to look like you should be doing what you're doing. Was Hitler a bad guy because he was Christian, or because he was crazy? Think of it this way; anyone who truly follows their religious beliefs is the nicest and most good person ever.
Instead of being self-congratulatory, smug and full of cliches, she should speak to the U.S. govt and ask them to stop creating refugees.
Here here.
The Jacal at least she does something good for tragedy stricken people. what have you done so far? insulted a woman to cares? why don't you stop USA gov from bombing foreign countries and then bossy others around about this point.
***** re-read my post.
The Capital/Fascist Imperium produced war and with the rafugees - through dogsbody - make political manipulation! That was the case in Yugoslavia and is the case all over the world! *Pray for our politicians* because they are under great pressure by Capital/Fascist!
*Down, down, down antichristian Babylon!*
*Down, down, down islamo/fascistic Babylon!*
*Down, down, down antichristian Babylon!*
Why so many hateful comments? What has the world become?
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unfortuatly many people born in this country don't have the opportunities that they should to go to higher education, to have a chance to share the gift that they came into this life to share. They are stuck taking sloppy 2nd and 3rd's from government welfare systems and no way to get off of them. Some people in this country spend their days just trying to survive. What is happening to this world?
Jellping on bills
If Britain was in war I wouldn’t move to another country like a coward I would fight for my queen and country 🇬🇧
How sad...and we think we have problems... :-( Politics and wars, how stupid!
We let them in and save their lives but the problem is they dont return the favor. Most cases, they do the opposite.
That's a Man!
Maybe they should stay and fight for their own country.
+katharis90 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain
+João Manuel Gomes cool, lets bring back conscription then, you first I hope?
+raceraxe Kids too, yeah?
+raceraxe Who will they fight with? Is? Doesn't seem like a good idea? Maybe Bashar? But he is killing his own people right? How about anti-regime forces? I just remembered that they have no difference than IS or Al-Qaeda... Sure they should stay... With one of these...
I and my Father agree with your suggestion. I would fight for my home. Can we agree on just that?
A wolf in sheeps clothing. This is the same one who claimed that the world economic forum OWNS science. She believes that institutions should be prioritize over individuals.
can we help the domestic poor to thrive?
refugees and african children are the future of europe. invest on them and them only.
I'm 100% sure she is a Jew. enough said.
It’s sad that it all goes back to socialism
My home is not their home. Get out.
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sanctimonious claptrap.
This world is not just your world, and you should not be the decision maker in their lives. In all aspects you have the same worth as any one of them, you are only one and you should realise that because in any second that could be you.
This reminds me a lot of that scene from Man of Steel.
Superman: "What was I supposed to do? Just let them die?"
His dad: " ... I dunno, maybe?"
Yeah, when it comes to people who are at risk of being killed in their own country, I'm gonna have to side with Superman here.
+Animurh Psychopath
You probably will never be the refugees but hope you will put yourself in their shoes. No one wants to leave their country and wants be treated as secondary citizens. Those people just need a safe place to live and to raise their children.
Maybe i thinm its timeto create a channel that goes against all these stupid ideas,
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what a completely fabricated attention grabber smh. I'm all for helping people. but the question needs to be asked. Why are they not fleeing to saudi arabia or the UAE?
because they would be gunned down.
yeh - ask how thats going in Sweden
Is making refugees becoming a profitable industry? I hope not.
lets not
The world's population has more than doubled since the second world war. If the rest of the world had been doing what Australians have been doing for the last 40 years, keeping their fertility down to fewer than two children per woman, there would be no world refugee crisis and far less reason for conflict. What do people do when all the agricultural land is already in use and there are more people than there are ways to make a living? They can live in poverty, leave, or force others to leave. This last is called "persecution".
Allah is sufficient for us ..what people are saying negative about them.. should and must know .."EVERY SOUL SHALL TASTE DEATH" what if today is their turn.. definitely tomorrow will be yours.FEAR YOUR LORD.
praise allah
@@gort8687 allah aka satan is a pagan moon god
blah blah blah blah god for everybody everyman for himself blah blah blah
Im sure this did well in Chicago 2023 lmaoo
The most evil men in the world are those who persist in starting more children, when they cannot provide safety to the children they already have.
Bill Gates doesn't like this video
You wasted my time lady!!!
+Andre L I think she would agree.
This is stupid on multiple points.
care to explain how?
Bullshits...