The World Refugee & Migration Council (WRMC) today welcomed a generous donation from the IKEA Foundation to support delivery of the Council’s ambitious programme for implementing the concrete recommendations laid out in A Call to Action: Transforming the Global Refugee System. The donation provides key operational resources to support research-driven initiatives on strengthening political will, […]
Part I of the Massey is Missing COP26 Series of Events Monday, November 9 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST Lloyd Axworthy and David Suzuki have spent decades advocating, pressing and legislating for social justice and climate justice with enormous success and also setbacks. Looking back on more than 50 years on the frontlines of activism, what […]
This event report summarizes our August 2020 conversation with champions of innovative solutions to combat grand corruption and assist those who have been forcibly displaced as a result.
Over the last several years, Colombia has received close to two million refugees from Venezuela as a result of the ongoing severe economic and political problems. This inflow of mainly poor and unskilled Venezuelans, coupled with the already significant number of internally displaced Colombians (IDPs), has become a major challenge for Colombia and is exacerbating […]
While the international refugee regime is anchored in the 1951 Refugee Convention and the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Convention is silent on the question of state culpability, and the UNHCR’s Statute established its entirely non-political character.
