Macron Elected President

We are pleased and, above all, relieved that Emmanuel Macron has been elected president of France – and that the French public chose to stand up for compassion, dignity, and for human rights. The new government in Paris must make it one of its key priorities to extend the protection Macron has pledged to those refugees who are in need of our collective help. Our efforts to help refugees in desperate situations in Calais and across France continue, and we urge the new government to take the lead on one of the biggest humanitarian crises we have seen, and save refugees from the appalling conditions they face every day.