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ACT NOW! Call for urgent action to protect the rights of people fleeing war, violence and persecution Sign UNHCR's #petition that calls on world leaders to protect people #seekingasylum and their #rights . ✍ Around the world, the right to seek safety from war, violence and persecution is under threat! Too many people are forced to make life-threatening journeys as they try to find safety. 🏠 By signing the petition you are asking world leaders to ensure: - Access to #safeterritory and preventing people from facing violence or dying along the routes. - Adequate conditions and treatment for refugees in line with #humanrights , #dignity and #inclusion. - Accession to the #RefugeeConvention, lifting reservations and establishing efficient asylum procedures. - Increased access to #durablesolutions, including resettlement. - #Solidarity and #support to countries and communities hosting large refugee populations. Sign using the below link ✅ : https://lnkd.in/dH7qdrNN

Tune into the final installment of our series, 'Embracing Adversity Journey - Refugee Voices- Part 12: Empowering Refugees: A Call for Compassion and Action.' This episode delves deep into the crucial need for empathy and support for refugees across the globe. Discover the challenges refugees endure, understand their rights under international law, and learn about the vital importance of recognizing their humanity. We discuss how welcoming refugees positively impacts societies and highlight the crucial role of advocacy, policy change, and community involvement in fostering long-term solutions. 🎧 Join us as we inspire action and compassion. Learn how you can make a difference: educate yourself, support refugee organizations, and help challenge and change negative stereotypes. Let’s work together to build a world that embraces all. #RefugeeRights #CompassionForRefugees #RefugeeVoices #TakeAction

What can the EU do to end Statelessness? 🔹 Develop a comprehensive strategy and action plan to address statelessness within the EU and globally. 🔹 Improve identification of stateless people 🔹 Put in place laws and procedures so that stateless people can enjoy their rights Read in full UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency key calls to the 🇪🇺 European Union on Statelessness: https://lnkd.in/e4TbPZs4

Help protect the right to seek safety ✍ Sign by 13th December the UNHCR’s Hope Away from Home Campaign to be presented at the Global Refugee Forum! It calls on leaders to prioritize: - Access to #safeterritory and preventing people from facing violence or dying along the routes. - Adequate conditions and treatment for refugees in line with #humanrights, #dignity and #inclusion. - Accession to the #RefugeeConvention, lifting reservations and establishing efficient asylum procedures. - Increased access to #durablesolutions, including resettlement. - Solidarity and #support to countries and communities hosting large refugee populations. 🔎 Here the link to sign: https://lnkd.in/dfNuy77F

ELIL is excited to share that we have joined the multi-stakeholder #GRFLegalCommunityPledge 2023 of PILnet. Together, pledge signatories aim to advance access to rights, justice and lasting solutions for displaced people globally. https://lnkd.in/d47DdBjh With more people displaced from their homes than ever before due to persecution, conflict and environmental changes, there has never been a more critical moment for the legal community to join forces and work with refugees and other displaced people. The Global Refugee Forum Legal Community Pledge seeks to harness the expertise, passion, and influence of legal professionals worldwide to drive meaningful change for displaced people globally and to ensure that refugee rights are upheld and strengthened. You can learn more about the pledging initiative and how you can join ELIL and a growing movement of lawyers and allies working with and for forcibly displaced people: https://lnkd.in/d47DdBjh #GRFLegalCommunityPledge #RefugeeForum #A2J4Refugees #RefugeeJustice 

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency commissioned HiiL to investigate the relationship between #displacement and #justice through a #PeopleCentredJustice lens 🔬 Recognising justice as a fundamental right like shelter, food, and sanitation, the Justice Needs and Satisfaction (#JNS) study focused on understanding the experiences and needs of refugees, internally displaced persons, and host communities to generate fair solutions to their legal challenges. The JNS helps inform evidence-based policies and programmes that foster social cohesion and economic development. This initiative aligns with UNHCR's shift in #Iraq from conflict response to long-term development, acknowledging that access to justice remains a constant priority throughout the transition. 💡📊Learn more and access the data: https://lnkd.in/en9mBxJc

This week’s #MigrationUpdate covers latest in US policy, such as the Biden administration’s plan to to issue an executive action to restrict asylum in the United States; as well as international news surrounding the death of 3 #Rohingya children and several others injured by a fire in a refugee camp in #Bangladesh; and UNHCR expressing grave concern with the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. PLUS, watch a recording of our recent webinar in which experts discussed the human consequences of US #border enforcement policy. Click the link to read and #subscribe to our weekly #newsletter!

☮️Did you know that peace efforts that actively involve women are more likely to succeed to compared to those led by men?? Learn how women's efforts are fostering peace in the Ivempi refugee settlement & host communities. 🔴WATCH👉https://lnkd.in/dVqUuVQK #peacebuilding Oxfam Novib| Oxfam Denmark| Oxfam International

The Step Change Consortium brings together 11 asylum and refugee support organisations & an experts by experience group working in GM. This report brings together their findings from the past year as well as recommendations for their work moving forward: https://lght.ly/ngl1k07