World Refugee Day this year marks a distressing milestone: the number of people around the world who have been forcibly displaced due to violence, persecution and human rights violations has risen to 82.4 million, according the the UNHCR’s 2021 Global Trends report. In 2018, as the World Refugee & Migration Council prepared our report A […]
Nuevo grupo de trabajo de alto nivel: una respuesta regional es crucial para atender la migración en América del Norte y Centroamérica
Un nuevo grupo de trabajo de alto nivel lanzado hoy reúne a la sociedad civil, a líderes empresariales, a investigadores académicos y a antiguos responsables políticos para impulsar respuestas colectivas y regionales a los problemas de seguridad económica y de gobernanza a largo plazo que impulsan a los migrantes y a los solicitantes de asilo a abandonar sus hogares.
Only global immunization can make us safe
Ensuring the equitable distribution of vaccines worldwide is the smart thing to do. More importantly, it is the right thing to do. Lloyd Axworthy & Barbara Grantham This article was first published in The Ottawa Citizen The devastating situation in India is our newest reminder that we need global cooperation to defeat COVID-19. Despite producing most […]
A Vulnerability-based Approach to Counter Vaccine Nationalism
Remarks from Honorary Chair HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal at the World Refugee & Migration Council’s March 2021 panel discussion Vaccine Equity for the Forcibly Displaced. Ladies and gentlemen, It is, as you are well aware, high time that the world moves from the chthonian underworld of vaccine nationalism, as politically crafted and implemented […]
It’s time for an International Anti-Corruption Court
By Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock This article was first published in Diplomat Magazine. The World Bank estimates that each year between US $20 billion and US $40 billion in development assistance is stolen by corrupt officials. Such grand corruption undermines support in the West for foreign aid, while at the same time defeating its very […]