The Rwanda bill will create a legacy of suffering - an interview with a former asylum seeker
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that for the first time since records had begun, 100 million people were displaced by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses.
No one wants to leave their home, but for many, the threat of death, danger and destruction leaves them with very little choice. But where can they go? And where will they be met with humanity?
Sarah Dawood, senior associate editor at the New Statesman, is joined by former asylum seeker Arman Azadi, who arrived in the UK at 14 years old. After completing school and university in the UK he has worked with charities, governments, and the United Nations to advise on policies concerning displaced children whose lives have been torn apart by war and conflict.
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| 1:05.0 | In 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees announced that for the first time since records had begun, |
| 1:18.0 | a hundred million people were displaced by war, violence, persecution and human rights abuses. |
| 1:26.9 | No one wants to leave their home, but for many the threat of death, danger and destruction |
| 1:31.9 | leaves them with very little choice. But where can they go? |
| 1:35.3 | And where will they be met with humanity? I'm Sarah Darwood, senior associate editor at |
| 1:41.8 | the New Statesman, and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:47.0 | I was joined recently by Armana Zardi, author of the new book Across Mountains Land and Sea, which details the journey he was forced |
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