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Expert Perspective: Leigh Foster, Chief of Strategic Communications for UNHCR, discusses World Refugee Day

Expert Perspective: Leigh Foster, Chief of Strategic Communications for UNHCR, discusses World Refugee Day

To celebrate World Refugee Day, Zunia interviewed Leigh Foster, Chief of Strategic Communications. She gave insight to this year's theme, and talked about the UNHCR's approach to refugee relations. Zunia: This year’s theme is “One refugee without hope is too many”. What is the UNHCR vision for restoring hope? Leigh Foster: UNHCR's original mandate was temporary. Its founders envisaged a world without refugees. It may seem quixotic but that remains the vision that drives UNHCR. Until we get more...

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Expert Perspective: Kristen Cordell, advocate at Refugees International, talks about long term solutions for refugees

Expert Perspective: Kristen Cordell, advocate at Refugees International, talks about long term solutions for refugees

Zunia interviewed Kristen Cordell, advocate at Refugees International, who discussed statelessness and talked about the long term solutions for refugees displaced due to climate change. Refugees International is a non-profit organization which advocates for lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises. Each year, Refugees International conducts 20 to 25 field missions to identify displaced people’s needs for basic services such as more...

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Expert Perspective: Lavinia Limón, President of USCRI, discusses refugee resettlement in the US

Expert Perspective: Lavinia Limón, President of USCRI, discusses refugee resettlement in the US

In honor of World Refugee Day, observed annually on June 20th, Zunia talks to USCRI (U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants) about refugee resettlement in the United States, as well as the USCRI campaign against refugee warehousing. Lavinia Limón, USCRI President, offers solutions for international coordination of refugees’ rights and talks about how recent unrest in the Middle East has caused states to reevaluate the methods they use to accommodate refugees. Since 1911, the U.S. more...

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