Doctors Without Borders doesn't take money from EU anymore

Re:Doctors Without Borders doesn't take money from EU anymore by caoilte on Saturday June 18, 2016 @08:33AM (#11928265)

It appears not to be fair to group Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait with the other states you have listed.

while Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt have taken in around 5 million refugees, and boatloads of the destitute are making their way to Europe, the Gulf states have taken only a few hundred refugees, according to data from the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR).

http://www.dw.com/en/arab-monarchies-turn-down-syrian-refuge...

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Re:Doctors Without Borders doesn't take money from EU anymore by dalke on Saturday June 18, 2016 @08:43AM (#11928315)

I thought that was because Saudi Arabia doesn't call them refugees but "Arab brothers and sisters in distress". The number of such people is quite contentious, if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrians_in_Saudi_Arabia is any evidence. There may be 500K such people "in distress."

FWIW, unlike the EU countries, Saudi Arabia isn't signatory to the United Nations Refugee Convention.

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Re:Doctors Without Borders doesn't take money from EU anymore by caoilte on Saturday June 18, 2016 @08:52AM (#11928363)

Thanks for pointing that out. It's clearly been very heavily politicised.

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