On April 10^th, Perry World House presents its annual colloquium “Prospects for Reform on International Migration and Refugees,” with a keynote address by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.

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Listen to Graeme Wood, National Correspondent for The Atlantic, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Deputy Editor at Foreign Policy, Sarah Stillman, Staff Writer at The New Yorker and Director of the Global Migration Project at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and Bill Orme, UN Representative for the Global Forum for Media Development discuss the roles and responsibilities of journalists and the media in reporting on refugees and migration.

Hear from Barbara Rijks, Head of the Mission Coordination Unit in Baghdad for the International Organization for Migration, Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, and Edward Kallon, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Nigeria on addressing protracted displacement.

And don’t miss our closing conversation with Yasmine Mustafa, CEO of ROAR for Good, and Sozi Tulante, Former City Solicitor of Philadelphia, as they discuss their experiences with forced migration and immigration policy in Philadelphia and the United States.

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