Refugee Input Must Shape Our Global Response To Refugee Issues

This article was originally published by Devex.

When I came to the U.S. from Iraq in 2010, I didn't imagine that I would one day be addressing a body of the United Nations. I fled my home country as a refugee due to the conflict there, after my husband started receiving death threats for working with an American company. I arrived in the U.S. with only a pocket Quran in my hand, given to me by my mother.

People like me often do not have the opportunity to influence global refugee policy. But this has started to change. When the U.N. General Assembly affirmed the Global Compact on Refugees in 2018, it recognized that “responses are most effective when they actively and meaningfully engage those they are intended to protect and assist.”

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