Comment: The unbearable whiteness of international law


Different treatment: A placard reading 'Welcome to Germany' in a classroom at a German primary school that offers children of Ukrainian refugees a school preparation course. Refugees from other parts of the world were greeted very differently in the past. -- Reuters

RUSSIA’S full-scale military invasion of Ukraine has uprooted the lives of over 10 million people – a quarter of the nation’s population.

The unabashed aggression has been met by an unprecedented humanitarian front. As of the end of March, 2,451,342 Ukrainian refugees had been welcomed into Poland alone – a stark contrast to its (non-)reception of Afghan asylum seekers just three months prior.

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International law , Russia , Ukraine , crisis

   

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