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UNHCR and IPU welcome Council of Europe parliamentary resolution in support of refugees Format Attachments The PACE resolution, the “Parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in helping protect refugees. Their engagement is essential in preserving access to asylum, facilitating refugee integration, addressing the root causes that give rise to displacement, and also supporting other refugee host countries,” said UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs. “In ...

04 June 2021 A Syrian father and his children wait in line to have their passports checked at Hanover airport in Germany.   © UNHCR/Gordon Welters The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, welcome the adoption of a resolution and publication of a report in support of refugees by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The PACE resolution, the “Parliamentarians have a crucial role to play in helping protect refugee...

Presidential Task Force on the Refugee Crisis Initiative A Child Rights Response to Child Migration and Migrant Children at Risk The Taskforce on the Refugee Crisis Initiative was formed by the IBA to highlight the difficulties faced by refugee and migrant unaccompanied children. The showcase resulted in providing 2 reports. The report from the IBA and Irish Centre for Human Rights examines the situation of children on the move in the context of international migration, with a fo...

Safaricom’s Internal Wrangles Over Tenders Threaten To Knock Out The ‘Outsider’ CEO Peter Ndegwa The lies and shiny outside of East Africa’s biggest Telco, Safaricom Plc, that has been over the years propped up by Public Relations has begun to wane. An ugly infighting that has escalated pitting board Chairman Michael Joseph (former/founding CEO) and current CEO Peter Ndegwa’s camp seems likely as the straw that will break the camel’s back. They say that corruption in the private sec...

Joint communiqué: Putting children’s rights at the heart of the Global Compact for Migration’s implementation in Asia-Pacific Format As State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), governments have a duty to respect, protect and fulfill the specific obligations related to each child within their jurisdiction, without discrimination based on their or their parents’ migration or other status. We, the undersigned individuals and organisations, call on governments across...

The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) January 26, 2021 , is part of the Holy See’s delegation to the Summit. In this conversation with ICMC Communications, he discusses the Holy See’s expectations for this year’s sessions and the new challenges and opportunities the COVID-19 pandemic presents to migration governance.  The pandemic has shown that our economic system cannot produce inclusive development for all, says Fr. Fabio Baggio. He hopes that the discussions at this ...

Local Inclusion of Migrants and Refugees - A Gateway to existing ideas, resources and capacities for cities across the world Format ABSTRACT In 2018, the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and the Global Compact for Refugees (GCR) were adopted by the vast majority of UN Member States. During the preparatory processes for both Compacts, local authorities, among other stakeholders, were included and actively contributed to the global migration agenda. The Marrakech Mayora...

The Divergent Trajectories of the Global Migration and Refugee Compacts: Implementation amid Crisis Format At Their Second Anniversary, the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration Appear to Be on Separate and Increasingly Diverging Tracks WASHINGTON — Two years after the adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) at the UN General Assembly, the global landscape in which these instruments are being implemented has shi...

World: The Divergent Trajectories of the Global Migration and Refugee Compacts: Implementation amid Crisis 11 December, 2020 - 06:20 Country: World Source: Migration Policy Institute Please refer to the attached file. At Their Second Anniversary, the Global Compacts on Refugees and Migration Appear to Be on Separate and Increasingly Diverging Tracks WASHINGTON — Two years after the adoption of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and R...