Sorry, but I live in the city. I don't have a backyard, unless Central Park counts. Fidel's brave successful return is not something a lot of Cubans would call it WAV.

Ok, well thanks all the same, because at least that was some clarification. Before you accuse me of being soporific, I would suggest atempting to answer some of the questions put to you, respectfully. What you suggest would also entail a rather large UN infastructure in place, in virtually every nation on earth dedicated solely to this problem. I'm not exaggerating when I say that either. If you want the UN to make these determinations, then there would have to be employees in place to determine who is a viable candidate for asylum-ie, those seeking refuge for their political, religous, and sexual grounds (by this I mean sexual orientation, as well as sexual crime against women). That would have to be a massive infastructure, and it would have to coexist with the border controls already in place in each nation.

Of course, there are people who make that determination now, who do not work for the UN, my aunt is one of them-in her case in Ireland. It's a tough call. I don't know if it has changed, but I know that in Ceuta, there were hundreds of Africans housed in a complex, overseen by the Spanish, who were waiting to get into a EU country. So on top of its own border operations, you had the costs of running this facility as well. I'm all for ideas WAV, and I believe that there is a need for a different approach, but I don't believe your ideas are possible. Nice though they may be, but there is a lot of reality out there that isn't so nice.

I mentioned previously the rather sad plight of the Saharawis, living in camps in Algeria for 30 or so years. I have always hoped for a stronger UN WAV. Despite it all, all the diatrabe that goes on here at Mudcat, including from myself, despite all that, I wish the UN could come up with solutions for situations like that. Sadly, its not the case. What can I do? I can petition for human rights, I can make people aware of political and social strife. I can share my thoughts and feelings and educate, and be educated. The one thing I can't do is profess that I have the answers. No one person does.