As humanitarian funding declines, conflicts proliferate and high levels of forced displacement persist, the World Refugee & Migration Council is launching a new international initiative to build a global coalition of donor and hosting governments, multilateral institutions, local authorities and those displaced long-term by conflict.
Declining donor funding, rising conflict and persistently high levels of forced displacement are driving an escalating crisis in the international humanitarian system. The system must be rethought to make it more efficient, more effective and better tailored to the contexts in which it operates.
Ninette Kelley is the chair of the World Refugee & Migration Council, which has launched an international effort to identify policy and institutional reforms that better bridge humanitarian and institutional responses to forced displacement. She is a former senior United Nations official and a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. This op-ed was […]
Fourteen refugee runners from the Middle East and Africa gathered in Montreal to run distances from 5 to 42.2 kilometres in the Longueuil Marathon as part of the Lamp Lifeboat Ladder project.
Corruption is not just a factor in many of the globe’s current dire refugee and security crises. Corrupt regimes are responsible for some of the worst human rights atrocities, including the forcible displacement of their citizens.
