Abstract
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.
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