Refugees International

Advocacy: main outcomesover the past year, Refugees International achieved the following as a result of our reporting and advocacy efforts:u.s. Legislation and the biden administrationin 2022, Refugees International (ri) continued to urge the biden administration to end title 42, the unjustified covid-19 related expulsion policy at the border, highlighting its human toll on asylum seekers. Ri provided public comment on usaid's local capacity development policy, strongly advocating for a significant shift in support for local capacity investment in humanitarian and development response. Refugees International continues to advocate on this issue in ongoing congressional meetings and outreach.refugees International and partners advocated for a protection-first approach to migration at the summit and for the meaningful inclusion of affected people, including displaced people, in the americas at the summit of the americas proceedings. Refugees International and partners released a set of nine guiding principles for the regional framework and hosted a side event at the summit on migration policy. Climate displacement program manager and senior advocate kayly ober testified in july at a tom lantos human rights commission hearing on human rights concerns arising from the impacts of climate change and migration. This was their first-ever hearing on climate change and human rights displacement in congress.refugees International endorsed the ethiopia peace and stabilization act, which included language on holding those accountable for the conflict, passed out of the senate foreign relations committee in march. Additionally, ri successfully advocated, individually and in coalition, for nearly $5 billion in food assistance in the ukraine emergency supplemental bill, which was signed into law in may.the national defense authorization act (ndaa) passed in december and included amended versions of the burma act and the refugee sanitation facility safety act. Refugees International endorsed both and conducted a campaign in support of the burma act, along with our ongoing high-level advocacy efforts on the legislation. Refugees International worked with representative meng in the previous congress on the refugee sanitation facility safety act.on december 22, congress passed the fiscal year 2023 omnibus package. The passage of an omnibus was a key objective and success for ri's advocacy efforts, as a full-year continuing resolution would have been detrimental to humanitarian programming.

Strategic outreach(includes public education): Refugees International engaged in a wide range of strategic outreach activities and initiatives throughout 2022. The organization produced 214 research and advocacy products, including 26 reports and briefs, 8 op-eds, 32 blogs, 47 statements, and 24 advocacy letters. Traffic to refugee International's website grew by 13 percent when compared to the previous year. Refugees International also earned considerable media coverage in 2022, garnering hundreds of media citations and interviews across the year. Refugees International appeared in news stories carried by the new york times, Washington post, wall street journal, financial times, guardian, usa today, time, newsweek, u.s. news & world report, national interest, un dispatch, npr, reuters, the associated press, bloomberg, bbc, cnn, msnbc, nbc, and numerous other print, online, and broadcast news outlets. Wire service news stories that included comments by Refugees International staff provided even greater reach, since other news outlets picked up and further disseminated those stories to even wider audiences. In 2022, Refugees International also achieved greater reach on social media platforms such as twitter, facebook, instagram, and linkedin. The organization's twitter has more than 305,000 followers, and its facebook, instagram, and linkedin audiences grew by a collective 10,000 additional followers over the year. Many of the organization's twitter followers have sizable audiences of their own some with more than a million followers further amplifying Refugees International's messaging through retweeting of our content. Many of the organization's twitter followers have sizable audiences of their own some with more than a million followers further amplifying Refugees International's messaging through retweeting of our content.