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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 the face of pressing refugee protection challenges, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, this Resolu...

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 refugees. Their engagement is essential in preserving access to asylum, facilitating refugee integration, a...

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 focus on separated and unaccompanied children. Beginning with an overview of the most recent relevant ...

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 sector is shocking as government’s. It was clear that Michael Joseph, who referred Bob Collymore (lat...

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 Asia-Pacific region to uphold and fulfill these rights for all children in the context of migra...