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1. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Michael Barutciski

   Opinion: The UNHCR is goading the U.S. into pulling its funding – and putting itself in existential risk (opens the original)

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   Michael Barutciski is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a professor at York University’s Glendon School of Public and International Affairs. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees is running his office into a self-inflicted existential crisis. Although he only became High Commissioner at the beginning of the year, former Iraqi prime minister Barham Salih has faced intense pressure from the Trump administration. As UNHCR’s largest donor, Washington is well-positioned to levera

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2. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Michael Barutciski

   Opinion: The UN’s Refugee Convention finds itself at a crossroads 75 years later – because of how it’s being interpreted (opens the original)

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   Michael Barutciski is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a professor at York University’s Glendon School of Public and International Affairs. Seventy-five years ago, Western diplomats gathered in Geneva to address the displacement crises of the early Cold War. Signed on July 28, 1951, the resulting Refugee Convention marked the first time widespread support was achieved for legally binding obligations that balance refugee rights with state interests. But decades of progressiv

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