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At the <\/span>Global Refugee Forum<\/span><\/a> in Geneva in December 2019, LERRN partnered with the <\/span>Global Refugee-led Network<\/span><\/a> to endorse the importance of refugee participation. Now in the midst of this global pandemic, it\u2019s more important than ever to recognize refugees as partners in the COVID-19 response, as well as equal <\/span>partners in research, policy and practice. <\/span><\/p>\n

This blog post was co-authored by <\/span>refugee leaders from LERRN Mustafa Alio and Pascal Zigashane, along with LERRN Project Director James Milner and leaders from the Global Refugee-led Network Shaza Alrihawi, Anila Noor and Najeeba Wazefadost to discuss the importance of embracing and supporting refugee leadership and delivering on our promise of refugee participation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the full blog post<\/a> published on the Andrew and Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva in December 2019, LERRN partnered with the Global Refugee-led Network to endorse the importance of refugee participation. Now in the midst of this global pandemic, it\u2019s more important than ever to recognize refugees as partners in the COVID-19 response, as well as equal partners in research, policy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[57,286,283,1,285,195],"tags":[560],"yoast_head":"\nBy 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