At the 2023 Cardano Summit in Dubai, Alvaro Cosi, head of innovation and communication at Switzerland for UNHCR, took the main stage to do what he does best: advocate for the refugee cause through education and innovation.
Alvaro posited that much of the world is misinformed, or has mistaken impressions about who refugees really are. Most refugees don’t live in camps. Instead, the vast majority live in urban settings in their host countries. 70% of refugees are hosted by a neighboring country; people who are forced to flee their homes are not usually making a global pilgrimage. The country who hosts the most refugees in the world right now is Turkey. Almost half of refugees are children, and another quarter are women. Sometimes, anti-refugee narratives paint an image of an invading swarm of young men; this is not reflective of the global refugee reality. Millions of refugees are displaced within their own country. The definition of refugee doesn’t require crossing any border, just that people have been forcibly displaced by war, persecution, or natural disasters. Global forced displacement is at an all-time high: 114 Million people are forcibly displaced across the world.
So now we arrive at the topic at hand: Switzerland for UNHCR partnering with the Cardano Foundation to establish a charity stake pool…
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