‘We Must Build a More Just System for Migrants and Refugees’: AFL-CIO’s Tefere Gebre to the United Nations

By webadmin@aflcio.org (Marakie Getachew)

AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre addressed the United Nations today about embracing this historic opportunity to create a more just system for migrants and refugees.

Gebre is a refugee from Ethiopia and walked 93 days through the desert as a teenager to find his freedom in America.

Here are Gebre’s remarks to the United Nations (after the jump).

Source: AFL-CIO