UN sounds warning as refugee convention turns 75

The right to asylum is coming under increasing political strain across the world, the UN's refugees chief said Tuesday as he marked the 75th anniversary of the Refugee Convention.UN sounds warning as refugee convention turns 75At the United Nation's Palais des Nations in Geneva where the convention was opened for signature on July 28, 1951 UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih urged the world to move from managing sky-high displacement to seeking to resolve it."We gather at a time of increasingly politicised debates about refugees and asylum," said Iraqi ex-president Salih, himself a former refugee."Too often, people forced to flee become scapegoats for wider social, economic and political anxieties. Too often, refugees are portrayed as burdens or threats rather than as fellow hum