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Donors must go beyond funding refugee services – threadbare as they are – and support genuine refugee integration.

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Rubio’s plan would shutter most of the State Department’s offices devoted to human rights and lay off an estimated 80% of the DRL staff, most of whom are experts in human rights and democracy.

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