Fair-Trade can reduce mass migration

THOUSANDS of migrants are risking their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach the mainland of Europe in a frantic bid to escape the poverty and hunger and war in their homelands. There have been 1,300 deaths in April alone, making it the deadliest month on record. That is twenty times more than in 2014. They died when the people smuggler’s boats capsized. Many women and children are among those drowned .The Mediterranean has become a watery graveyard for the poor and displaced people of this world.

Are they migrants, asylum seekers or refugees? They are all of the above and the one thing that drives them away from their homelands is the injustice, poverty, hunger and violence. While poverty has been greatly reduced in the past decade worldwide for the first time in history there is still a great challenge for all to make this a peaceful, just and fair world for all. Most refugees and displaced person in camps in Jordan want to go home to their own homes if only there were peace, freedom and justice.