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Podcast: New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episode: Seeking Safe Passage
Description: Sasha Chanoff, founder of RefugePoint, explains some of his ideas that could change the future for migrants everywhere.
Two hundred and fifty years ago the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote, "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn." He obviously wasn't talking about the tragedy of modern mass migration, but he could have been. Today thousands, indeed, millions of people are being driven from their homes by war, natural disasters, climate change, pestilence, poverty, or sometimes just a search for better opportunities. What could be more human? And what could be more inhuman than overcrowded camps, drownings, forced returns...