The following is a conversation with Rasha Jarum, founder and director of Peace Track Initiative, on the efforts to secure more meaningful involvement and representation for women in the process to …
Untangling the current U.S. refugee program
With 25.4 million refugees, the world is experiencing the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. Until recently, the United States was the world’s most generous donor of humanitarian …
War in Yemen: A litmus test of the Arms Trade Treaty
In March 2015, following a long political crisis in Yemen in which all parties resorted to violence, Houthi rebels seized the capital Sana’a, triggering the collapse of President Abd Rabbuh …
The legal challenge to the Safe Third Country Agreement: What’s at stake?
By Sonal Marwah and Deborah Mebude On July 5, the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR); The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), of which Project Ploughshares is an operating division; and …
Canada’s new feminist international aid policy: From words to action
On June 8, Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau released Canada’s “first feminist international assistance policy.” This bold policy has received praise and applause from Canadian civil society and international …
How can Canada respond to irregular migrants?
The arrival of recent irregular migrants to Canada in context Frightened people are showing up in border towns in Manitoba, Québec, and British Columbia. They have braved freezing temperatures to …
Does Trump’s refugee order tie UNHCR’s hands?
On January 27, President Trump signed an executive order, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” which prohibits entry by nationals of seven Muslim-majority states (Iraq, …
Global displacement not a European refugee crisis
This year is turning into the “deadliest year yet” for migrants and refugees. Deaths and drownings in the Mediterranean have climbed, even though fewer people are crossing to reach Europe. …
Promoting and broadening the governance of forced migrants
Mobility is a defining characteristic of our time. Worldwide, there are 244-million international migrants—persons living in a country other than the one they were born in—who have migrated for complex reasons, …
The human costs of war
Human displacement has reached record levels as old wars continue and new conflicts emerge. The second half of the 20th century saw a decline in wars between states, but a …
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