As World Refugee Day approaches, we’re returning to work that has never stopped being relevant. More than two decades ago, USCRI launched a global campaign to end refugee warehousing—the prolonged denial of refugees’ rights through restrictions on movement, employment, and self-reliance, often in camps or other segregated settings. Warehousing leaves millions of displaced people trapped in conditions […]
Category: From The Archives
From the Archives – Never Again, Still a Broken Promise
By Alexia Gardner, Policy Analyst, and Benjamin Leong, International Programs Intern (Fall and Winter 2026) Despite clear evidence of genocide in Rwanda, the United States failed to act. Today, this failure echoes. Content Note: This piece includes descriptions of violence and atrocities related to the Rwandan Genocide, including firsthand accounts from a former staff member who was in Rwanda for […]
A Conversation with the Dalai Lama – From the Archives
By Will Evans, Policy Analyst In 1959, twenty-three-year-old Tenzin Gyatso and a small Tibetan entourage fled Lhasa and trekked for weeks across the Himalayas before reaching safety. The Prime Minister of India at the time, Jawaharlal Nehru, insisted on providing asylum to the group, citing moral and humanitarian grounds. Tenzin Gyatso is now better known as His Holiness the Dalai Lama. For 66 years, he has lived in exile, unable to return […]
Introducing “From the Archives”
For more than a century, the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants has advocated for the rights and dignity of refugees, reporting regularly on harms committed against people on the move. For our 115th anniversary, we are turning to our archives, republishing historical material and pairing them with present-day reflections on how the lessons of the past still resonate today. Our archives reveal that the past […]