In the context of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s World Refugee Day was an occasion to stress that the health of a global community is indivisible — the health of refugees impacts the health of individuals worldwide.
The year 2020 continued a decade-long trend of increasing climate change-induced food insecurity and human displacement, highlighting the necessity to modernise human mobility policies and platforms for cooperation.
A coordinated effort to tackle COVID-19 and climate change is essential to ensure the human rights and livelihoods of migrants, refugees, and displaced populations are safeguarded during and long after the pandemic.
