Responding to Climate-Induced Transnational Migration: An Action Plan
A new WRMC Action Plan outlines three workable, politically saleable and rights-regarding actions that states and other actors can employ to address climate-induced migration.
Lloyd Axworthy Receives Metropolis Canada Policy Maker Award
Metropolis Canada has awarded WRMC Chair Lloyd Axworthy with its 2025 Policy Maker Award of Excellence. The award recognizes and celebrates outstanding contributions to the field
Lloyd Axworthy
March 17, 2025
Canadian Government Must Not Shelve Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program
World Refugee & Migration Council Chair Lloyd Axworthy decries the decision to abandon Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees program simply to appease those who unfairly blame newcomers for economic and social ills that result from government mismanagement.
WRMC
December 2, 2024
Elizabeth Ferris Receives Award for Excellence in Migration Scholarship
World Refugee & Migration Council Vice President of Research Elizabeth Ferris has received the prestigious Center for Migration Studies award for excellence in migration scholarship.
WRMC
November 20, 2024
WRMC
September 23, 2024
“It is time for an honest appraisal and an urgent call to action for governments and stakeholders to stretch out, to make the refugee response system fair, effective and efficient for refugees and governments alike. We must protect those fleeing danger, supply host country needs, alleviate citizens’ fears, hold those leaders generating displacement accountable and re-establish international cooperation.”
Read A Call to Action: Transforming the Global Refugee System
World Refugee & Migration Council partner Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders (GIRWL) is a group of refugee women-led initiatives, networks, and advocates that works with and for refugee women to:
- Increase refugee women participation in shaping policies;
- Build refugee women’s capacity to engage locally, nationally, regionally and globally; and
- Strategically advocate for and promote inclusive human rights approaches to forced displacement.
Haven (findhaven.org) is a platform which connects refugees who need help resettling in Canada with Canadians who can help. Refugees fleeing war in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, and other conflicts use Haven to match with Canadians that can help them find safe housing, secure meaningful employment, rebuild their support network, and everything else that they’ll need to restart their lives in Canada. By using technology to create a massively scalable platform, Haven wants to engage enough Canadians nationally to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees coming to Canada.
Lamp Lifeboat Ladder is a public-private partnership that supports refugee victims of torture and sexual violence one by one as they rebuild their lives. The Canadian government has formally approved this partnership, thus authorizing Lamp Lifeboat Ladder to refer up to 90 victims of torture and sexual violence for resettlement to Canada, along with their family members (roughly 500 refugees).