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Remarks by Alice Farmer (as Summarized by the Moderator)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Alice Farmer
Alice Farmer*
Affiliation:
Legal Officer for UNHCR.
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Extract

Alice Farmer discussed the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) long-standing and strengthening work to address forced migration from Central America within the context of the current international legal regime. In keeping with the panel's theme, she noted that international refugee law was written in the wake of World War II, in a time when the nature of persecution looks very different than it does today. With 68.5 million forcibly displaced people in the world—an all-time high—many of the solutions that the UNHCR has used in the past are not viable anymore. The numbers we are seeing now will be dwarfed in a few decades as climate change displacement rises. Fixing our stressed legal regime is urgent.

Type
Law (and Politics) of Displacement: Migratory & Refugee Crises under International Law
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 113 , 2019 , pp. 117 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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