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. They are part of a team started by WRMC member Jayne Fleming, director of our partner project Lamp Lifeboat Ladder, in 2022 with generous support from law firm Reed […]
As Neil Moss reports in an article published in The Hill Times, Canada took up proposals led by the World Refugee & Migration Council to repurpose assets seized from sanctioned individuals and entities as part of the 2022 federal budget. The federal government is now being sued by Volga-Dnepr, the firm that owns the Antonov […]
WRMC Council Member and head of Reed Smith’s international refugee protection programs Jayne Fleming was named to Forbes’ first annual list of America’s Top 200 Lawyers for 2024.
The Globe and Mail’s Steven Chase writes that the WRMC is proposing a trust fund to redistribute seized Russian assets to Ukrainians as allies of Kyiv make plans for rebuilding the war-damaged country.
Experts say the right to asylum is ‘disappearing’ as wealthy nations enact restrictions aimed at keeping people out The following is an excerpt from an article published by Al Jazeera featuring WRMC’s Allan Rock on the lack of political will to revive the broken global asylum system. Last May, the United Nations unveiled a “sobering” milestone […]
