Zeid bin Raâ

Refugees ‘asset, not burden,’ UN rights chief says

Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad of Jordan, who became the first Muslim United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in September, has said refugees should be seen as an asset, not a burden.

“We have to try to find a way of changing this, as they are not so much of a burden, but they are an asset if you really look after them,” he recently told daily Hürriyet.