The international refugee and migration regime — one of the critical pillars of the post-war international rules-based order — is crumbling before our very eyes with global implications.
This month, 14 refugee runners from the Middle East and Africa gathered in Montreal to run distances from 5 to 42.2 kilometres in the Longueuil Marathon.
Whoever wins Canada’s election next week will immediately face a decision with huge implications for global security and international law. At stake is the equivalent of US$300 billion of frozen Russian central bank reserves held in western currencies, C$22 billion of which is held in Canadian dollars.
The World Refugee & Migration Council extends its deepest sympathies to Catholics around the world. One of the highlights of Pope Francis’s legacy was his longstanding commitment to addressing the plight of the world’s most vulnerable, especially refugees and migrants.
“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:
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).
