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Inclusive Policymaking to Give Women Migrants Opportunities for Resilience and Financial Independence

Posted on March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 by Anila Noor in Opinion

New Women Connector’s Anila Noor writes that women migrants and refugees are mostly viewed as passive recipients of migration and integration policies. Shifting that paradigm and considering women as active participants is key to economic resilience.

Q&A With Canadian Senator Ratna Omidvar: Refugee Women and Girls

Posted on December 8, 2020March 1, 2021 by WRMC in Feature

The WRMC talked with Council member and independent Canadian Senator Ratna Omidvar to discuss how the international community can better respond to the needs of refugee women and girls, empower them as agents of change, and confront systemic issues of discrimination.

Refugee Women: Unpacking Gender-based Violence

Refugee Women: Unpacking Gender-based Violence

Posted on November 24, 2020January 6, 2021 by WRMC in Event

Marking the end of the international campaign 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, this highly interactive virtual conference will bring together women refugees from around the world at a critical moment, leading discussions on topics of gender-based violence

Action Network on Forced Displacement - Women as Agents of Change (Image: Anne Lehmann)

Launch of the Action Network for the Forcibly Displaced – Women as Agents of Change

Posted on October 27, 2020November 4, 2020 by Fen Osler Hampson in Feature, News

WRMC President Fen Osler Hampson spoke at the launch of the Action Network for the Forcibly Displaced — Women as Agents of Change on 27 October 2020. The new network is a direct result of the Council’s call for a Global Action Network on Forced Displacement in A Call to Action: Transforming the Global Refugee […]

Refuge Women: Responding to COVID-19

Virtual Conference Report — Refugee Women: Responding to COVID-19

Posted on July 20, 2020November 4, 2020 by WRMC in Event Report, Publications

Read the final report from our virtual conference with the Global Independent Refugee Women Leaders (GIRWL) network on June 9, 2020.

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The World Refugee & Migration Council offers bold strategic thinking about how the international community can comprehensively respond to refugees and the forcibly displaced through the principles of international cooperation and responsibility sharing. Council members include leaders, practitioners and innovators from developing and developed countries across the globe.

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