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CBC Montreal: Running Marathons Helps Group of Refugees Adjust to Life in Canada

Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 by WRMC in In the media, News

This month, 14 refugee runners from the Middle East and Africa gathered in Montreal to run distances from 5 to 42.2 kilometres in the Longueuil Marathon. They are part of a team started by WRMC member Jayne Fleming, director of our partner project Lamp Lifeboat Ladder, in 2022 with generous support from law firm Reed […]

The time has come to think about what comes after the war in Gaza

Posted on June 11, 2024June 21, 2024 by Allan Rock in Opinion

Israel’s three-phase proposal for Middle East peace, announced on May 31 by U.S. President Joe Biden, is an important step forward and deserves widespread support. The plan, however, leaves important questions unanswered concerning who “governs” Gaza post-hostilities.

Middle East, North Africa water crisis must be top of the agenda at COP28

Posted on December 6, 2023December 13, 2023 by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal in Opinion

At the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (COP28) in Dubai, we must come together and create a concrete, realistic, and consensual roadmap for the cooperative and productive management of water resources, write WRMC Honorary Chair Prince El Hassan Bin Talal and Tabinda Sarosh.

Free Speech vs Hate Speech: The Journey Towards Coexistence Requires Dialogue

Posted on February 16, 2023March 8, 2023 by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal in Opinion

At a time when the world faces complex and ominous challenges, including conflict and climate change, we must reinforce the universal and inalienable right to human dignity for all, writes WRMC Honorary Chair HRH Prince El Hassan bin Tall

Event Report: Vaccine Equity for the Forcibly Displaced

Posted on June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 by WRMC in Event Report, Publications

Read the report from the WRMC’s Vaccine Equity for the Forcible Displaced event featuring HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, the Hon. Lloyd Axworthy and COVID-19 pandemic experts moderated by Rosemary McCarney.

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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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