"In order to mobilize more substantial and sustainable funding for UN humanitarian appeals and other international humanitarian organizations, and provide further support to countries hosting large numbers of refugees, we sought a $3 billion increase in global humanitarian financing and commitments to maintain funding in future years,” the statement added.
Governments represented at the Leaders’ Summit at UN headquarters in New York, the statement continued, pledged a near-doubling of the number of refugees their countries would resettle and provide legal paths to admission.
The participants also sought to increase the number of refugees who received an education by 1 million and those who are allowed to work legally by the same number, the statement noted.
Co-hosts of the Leaders’ Summit on Refugees, which US President Barack Obama presided over, were Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, Jordan, Mexico and Sweden. The summit took place in conjunction with the UN General Assembly gathering in New York.
