Concordat Council Weighs Whether Corridor Towns Get a Vote

GENEVA — The Global Concordat Council spent Monday's session on a quieter crisis than water or ice: whether the millions moving through the world's migration corridors are counted as residents where they land, or as guests who never quite arrive. With registered climate migrants approaching 116 million and still climbing, receiving towns have grown faster than any electoral roll can follow. "You cannot govern people you refuse to count," Secretary-General Ingrid Halvorsen told delegates, urging a framework that would enroll the resettled as voters in the towns absorbing them. Opposition came from member states wary of redrawn constituencies. In Nova Kigali Receiving Town, where a whole district was poured this year, a Passage Trust registrar named Esther Kwame put it plainly: her ledger has thousands of names and not one of them appears on a ballot. The Council adjourned without a vote, promising a draft by month's end.