At two major events in Mexico City — with Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard and with Canadian Ambassador to Mexico Graeme Clark — the North and Central American Task Force on Migration presented its recommendations for filling key governance gaps and promoting better coordination of the often-disjointed response to migration in the region.  Read 

At the June Summit of the Americas meeting in Los Angeles, the WRMC co-hosted a side event on regional migration, governance & forced displacement in the Americas with the Organization of American States, Pan American Development Foundation, Migration Policy Institute, UNHCR, International Organization for Migration, International Labour Organisation, Open Society Foundations and the Emerson Collective  Watch 

A new WRMC research paper in partnership with International Lawyers Project and Spotlight on Corruption with contributions from WRMC Special Advisor Allan Rock and others assesses the four main legal options in dealing with frozen Russian assets: continued freezing, confiscation, private claims, and enforcement of a foreign judgment or international award.  Read 

WRMC Canadian Task Force Against Global Corruption member Prof. Robert Currie outlines the international legal aspects of Canada's new legislation to seize and repurpose frozen foreign assets.   Read 

On World Refugee Day WRMC Chair Lloyd Axworthy issued a statement on the more than 100 million people around the world now forcibly displaced from their homes by conflict, attacks on human rights and, to a growing extent, climate emergencies.  Read 

The global system addressing forced displacement suffers from a climate of indifference. Responsibility sharing is rarely acknowledged & largely ignored. 

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