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OUR POSITION PAPER TO THE UNITED NATION SECURITY COUNCIL FOR THE MUNC2019 THE UN CONFERENCE DATE NOVEMBER 25, 2019 IN MONTREAL CANADA. We thank the secretary general for approving our application along with our motivation letter; we are attending as a head Delegate.
​​​represented by Ekens Ekens Foundation International
POSITION PAPER FOR SECURITY COUNCIL

INTRODUCTION
Ekens Foundation International Canada, known as Ekens Foundation is a nongovernmental organization engaging on promotion of the basic human rights in support of their humanitarian responses, together to reduce the level of world poverty in the rural areas, while advocating for justice based on lack of interest of helpless folks to seek for justice during their counter on human rights violations and abuses, While helping to strengthen the role of civil society in the following objective, Asylum and refugees rights, Police, immigration and prison welfare reforms, International research, recommendations on conflict negotiations, global treaties and resolutions, last minutes across border justice and gender equality campaign.

(THE ASYLUM AND REFUGEE PROCEDURAL PROCESS IN CHARACTER OF TEN YEARS RESEARCHES AND EXPERIENCES)
Since 3rd November 2007, Ekens Foundation have gain plenty experiences both on a trip visit to immigration and refugees detention centers, while talking to long-time detainees on deportation experiences, attending detention reviews and refugees and asylum hearing and keeping tracking of failed asylum and refugee claimants on both pre and post-deportation
WE HAVE OBSERVED THE UNRESOLVED MANDATE AND CHALLENGES OF THE UNITED NATION HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES (UNHCR)
After ten years of experience in asylum and refugees procedural process, we found the need to get involved in the campaign for the change of the following:

PLEASE PAY ADEQUATE ATTENTION TO THIS AS IT CONTAINED A GRASSROOTS VICTIMS EXPERIENCE BASED ON FACTS
We found the need for Improvement on errs of the state party’s collaboration to the agents of persecution against refugee applicants and lack of implementations of the international convention.
The need for (UNHCR) intervention when the agents of protection turn to an agent of persecution against refugee applicants, the lack of adequate last recourse for failed asylum and refugees.

The need of intervention when the state party discloses the vital and personal information’s of refugee claimant as contain on asylum and refugees file to the persecutory state in violation of the clement fundamental rights while exposing the claimant and his family’s lives to crucial risk.

The need of action when the agents of protection or the state party decided to involve the agents of persecution in process of determination of asylum and refugee status which in turn may lead to a vacation of a legitimate refugee status conferred to the applicant under the 1951 Geneva Convention

The need to our campaign for improvement on refugee and immigration detention center and to regularly check and monitored by the (UNHCR) while reporting back to the inspector general of the (UNHCR) or the United Nation general assembly for recommendations.

The need for the United Nations recommendation to all state parties/Characters by instructing them to stop using the conventional prison for immigration purposes.

The need for adequate funding for the (UNHCR) to enable them recruits and deploys more staffs on regular inspection to immigration detention center. Refugee and detention hearing,

The need to create a backlog department of the (UNHCR) to deal with the last recourse of failed asylum and refugee applicants after their pre-removal assessment is rejected by the state party. That’s to have second looks at their files before deportation.
The need for re-examination on the risk assessment of the failed refugees and asylum applicants against their aggressors before deportation, including the examination of the extrajudicial killing, persecution, arrest,and harassment to their various groups through their country of origins

The need to maintain the dependency of the United National agencies such as the (UNHCR) without interference or influence of the national host government and to entertain complaints submitted by the victims

The need for state party full implementation of 1951 Geneva Convention and its applicable protocols not only on papers but in real situation

The need for the United Nation oversight on state party’s violation of international convention against torture during pre and post-deportation of failed refugee applicants

The need for United Nation adequate attention on state party reprisal action against persons or applicants making international complaints against then to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Committee, and the need for the state party to respect any recommendation made by the United Nation High Commissioner for Human Rights

QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS DEFINE REFUGEES FROM MIGRANTS?
A migrant is a person who makes a conscious choice to leave their country to seek a better life elsewhere. Before they decide to leave their country, migrants can seek information about their new home, study the language and explore employment opportunities. They can plan their travel, take their belongings with them and say goodbye to the important people in their lives. They are free to return home at any time if things don’t work out as they had hoped, if they get homesick or if they wish to visit family members and friends left behind
REFUGEES
Refugees are forced to leave their country because they are at risk of, or have experienced persecution. The concerns of refugees are human rights and safety, not economic advantage. They leave behind their homes, most or all of their belongings, family members and friends. Some are forced to flee with no warning and many have experienced significant trauma or been tortured or otherwise ill-treated. The journey to safety is fraught with hazard and many refugees risk their lives in search of protection. They cannot return unless the situation that forced them to leave improves

SHOULD ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF LEGAL PROTECTION AS REFUGEES FLEEING CIVIL WARS AND POLITICAL CONFLICTS?
Ekens Foundation proposed for the amendment of the Geneva Convention of the 1951 and its applicable protocols to suit the 21st century imaginably challenges, our reason is clear and simples as follows:

The Geneva Convention of 1951 on refugees was established after the Second World War after 1950 of establishment of the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) The United Nation General assembly adopted the 1951 convention to last for 3 years but they were wrong,

We propose for change on additional new criteria of refugees which is currently only on five grounds, based on the well-founded fear of persecution of Race, Religion, nationality, political opinion and membership of social group.

We propose additional criteria to be added based on the 21st century challenges

Thanks
Ekens Azubuike
President:
Ekens Foundation
www.ekensfoundation.org
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