Thematic Focus: General

2017 Annual Consultations with NGOs, Geneva, 14-16 June 2017 [info]
- This year's theme is "From Global Responsibility to Local Action: Implementing the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF)." Registration deadline is 12 May 2017. Note that *online* registration will close once 500 delegates have signed up. Follow link for background documents.

The Human Rights Violators’ Playbook: How to Respond to an Amnesty International Report (Amnesty International, Feb. 2017) [text]

Mapped: A World at War (IRIN, updated April 2017) [access]

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 29,369; Deaths: 663 (IOM, April 2017) [text]

Open Briefing to United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (UNHCR, April 2017) [text]
- More information about the committee meeting is available here.

Painting a Clearer Picture with ‘Flawed’ and ‘Messy’ Data (IDMC Blog, March 2017) [text]

Remarks to the UN General Assembly Plenary Meeting, "Global Awareness of the Tragedies of Irregular Migrants in the Mediterranean Basin, with Specific Emphasis on Syrian Asylum Seekers" (UNHCR, April 2017) [text]

Too Many Migrants, or Too Many Concepts? (RLI Blog, April 2017) [text]

U.N. Refugee Agency Must Change Course or Risk Obsolescence (Refugees Deeply, April 2017) [text]

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- Thematic Focus: General (31 March 2017)

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