Introduction
Of 13.9 million refugees and asylum seekers worldwide, startling number of 8.8 million people have been stuck in inadequate living conditions five years or more. These “warehoused” refugees are trapped in idle, meaningless, miserable life where they are deprived of basic human necessities and rights as the conflicts in their home country prolong their return indefinitely. Let’s face it: long-hoped for dreams of resettlements and repatriation are unlikely to be achieved in the short-term since source countries has to go through much-needed regime reforms. The important question is, as U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) puts it, “how are refugees to live in the meantime: like captives with their lives on hold or like dignified, free human beings?”
Perhaps few terms should be clarified at the outset to show relevance of this campaign to “access to shelter”. In prosaic terms, adequate shelter is a habitable refuge; but we live......

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Title: Global Campaign To End Refugee Warehousing
Approximate Word Count: 4180
Approximate Pages: 17 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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