Equitable vaccine distribution represents one of the most challenging, vexatious political issues facing UN member states in 2021. Governments that can afford large-scale purchases have already contracted the lion’s share of vaccine production for their own use. But they have left the rest of the world, where there is limited capability to manufacture and deliver vaccines, high and dry.
On 7 December, the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) hosted a webinar in collaboration with the World Refugee & Migration Council. The webinar entitled ‘Placing Refugee Return and Reintegration at the Heart of International Development Policy’ comes in recognition of the challenge associated with ensuring durable solutions to forced displacement that is currently affecting […]
World Refugee & Migration Council members and others call on the UN Secretary-General to hold an extraordinary meeting of the UN Security Council.
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, […]
The plight of the forcibly displaced has become intolerable. A faltering response that was flawed and failing has now utterly collapsed. What the Council once described as an effort to repair and transform the system must now be seen as the need to rebuild it.
