Migrants and Refugees

Ten-year old Jimmy (right), one of millions of Venezuelan fleeing the country, waits in the migration center queue to get his official papers to enter Ecuador, where his sister is waiting for him. (2019)
© UNICEF/Santiago Arcos

270 million people are migrants, who send home a staggering $689 billion

27 November 2019

The number of international migrants in 2019 is now estimated at 270 million and the top destination remains the United States, at nearly 51 million, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday.

PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival winners at UN Headquarters who were selected for their coverage of migration, diversity and social inclusion. The winning-videos were chosen among 1200+ submissions from almost 70 countries.
UNAOC

UN film festival encourages young people to promote peace, dialogue and empathy

16 November 2019
Global

Demonstrating empathy, humour and intelligence, a group of young film-makers have been recognized for their short videos, which tackle the weighty issues of discrimination, intolerance and misogyny in a creative and entertaining way, at a ceremony held at UN Headquarters.

In Binnish in the Syrian Arab Republic, internally displaced people from Idlib live in a destroyed school while a tanker provides them with water that children transport with small containers.
© UNICEF/Omar Haj Kadour

Hundreds of thousands of civilians at risk in Syria amid ongoing violence in northeast and northwest

8 November 2019
Middle East

Almost daily violence targeting built-up areas and health facilities in Syria continues to threaten the lives of civilians there, UN rights experts and humanitarians said on Friday.