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Tag: Magnitsky Legislation

Fen Hampson Testifies Before the Canadian Senate on the Frozen Assets Repurposing Act

Posted on March 24, 2022June 21, 2023 by Fen Osler Hampson in Analysis

WRMC President Fen Hampson testified before the Senate of Canada’s Standing Senate Committee, delivering seven propositions as to why the Frozen Assets Repurposing Act is good public policy

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Frozen Assets Repurposing Act Tabled in Canadian Senate

Posted on November 25, 2021December 22, 2021 by WRMC in News

Independent Canadian Senator and World Refugee & Migration Council member Ratna Omidvar has tabled Bill S-217, the Frozen Assets Repurposing Act in the Senate. As Senator Omidvar has noted, the Magnitsky Act and other legislation currently allows the Government of Canada to freeze the assets of corrupt foreign officials. But this new bill asks Canada […]

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Repurposing Frozen Assets to Assist the Forcibly Displaced — Research Paper

Posted on September 14, 2020April 25, 2023 by WRMC in Anti-Corruption Task Force, Publications, Research Paper

Legal analysis of innovative options for repurposing frozen assets of kleptocrats to assist the forcibly displaced and the countries hosting them.

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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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