Discussion of Global Forced Migration Report

Thursday, November 12, 2020 05:00 pm - 06:00 pm
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New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Relations (SFRC), released a Senate report this year entitled Global Forced Migration: The Political Crisis of Our Time. The report is the culmination of his staff's year-long investigation into the global forced migration crisis, and draws on expert interviews, in-country research, and historical review to examine drivers and trends associated with today’s global forced migration crisis, and analyzes international and U.S. responses. In the report, the SFRC Democratic Staff lays out the urgent case for sweeping, innovative action and leadership to address the present crisis, and makes timely recommendations to Congress, the Executive Branch, the United Nations, and other relevant actors to strengthen and coordinate the global response. The roll-out event on June 18 featured remarks by the Senator and a panel with Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Lloyd Axworthy, Chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council, and Dr. Farida Almuslem, Director of the Syrian American Medical Society's Adana Maternity & Children’s Hospital in Northern Syria. A link to the full report can be found here.

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Charlotte Oldham-Moore is a Senior Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member). Charlotte handles the Global Issues portfolio, which includes humanitarian assistance, the United Nations, migration and refugees, human rights, atrocity prevention, and human trafficking.  She has been the lead staff member in  the drafting and passage of over a dozen laws.

Prior to joining the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2013, Charlotte Oldham-Moore was Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights at the US State Department.  Before joining the State Department, she was Staff Director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. She was Senior Counsel to Senator Barbara Boxer and Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Paul Wellstone, and his Staff Designee on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. Oldham-Moore also was Senior Policy Advisor—Children in Emergencies and Crisis, Save the Children; Director of Central and Eastern European Initiative, Disability Rights International (Romania and Hungary); and Legal Advisor (based in Cambodia) for the International Human Rights Law Group.

Oldham-Moore, who holds a J.D. from Columbia University Law School, served as a law clerk for a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Chinese History from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
 
Andrew McKenna is currently serving as a Fellow with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member), where he focuses on civilian security, humanitarian emergencies, human rights, and multilateralism. A career employee with the U.S. Department of State, he is an analyst and geographer with the Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU) within the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), where he initiates research, produces written assessments, and briefs senior U.S. Government officials on a range of humanitarian and conflict-related issues. Prior to joining the State Department in 2016, Andrew worked with an NGO in Jordan on the Syrian refugee crisis and previously with USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives. He studied Geography and International Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.