migration

Migrants play a key role both in countries of origin and destination, but often face discrimination and have to work under difficult conditions with little protection.
Photo: ILO

Asia-Pacific: UN forum highlights central role of migrants in world’s most populous region

10 March 2021
Migrants and Refugees

United Nations officials on Wednesday highlighted the contributions of migrants to economies and societies in Asia and the Pacific, calling on countries to ensure all who live within their borders are fully included in national coronavirus inoculation programmes. 

The United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC.
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UN welcomes Biden administration commitment to refugee protection

20 January 2021
Migrants and Refugees

The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday welcomed the “positive steps” announced by the new US administration towards migrants and refugees, while the head of UN refugee agency (UNHCR) congratulated the new President and Vice President on taking office, pledging to work with them to strengthen global support for refugees. 

IOM Libya staff assist migrants at a disembarkation point in Tripoli, Libya.
IOM

Migrants among most vulnerable, as IOM ramps up coronavirus response worldwide

15 April 2020
Migrants and Refugees

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expanded the scope of its Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP), to include far-reaching interventions that aim to mitigate the dire health and socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, the agency said on Wednesday.

Children sit in front of a house damaged by an air strike in Yemen. (July 2019)
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Friday’s Daily Brief:  Yemen exclusive, India rights, Chile, Ebola updates

13 December 2019
Peace and Security

Our top stories for Friday include an exclusive UN News interview with Yemen Envoy Martin Griffiths; India’s new “discriminatory” citizenship law; a milestone smallpox eradication anniversary; helicopters deployed in DR Congo Ebola fight; Mediterranean migrant latest, and Chile’s deadly protests: UN report finds clear pattern of repression.

Rohingya refugees
WFP/Saikat Mojumder

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Hope for Myanmar, UN News sits down with new Assembly President, youth speak out on climate crisis

17 September 2019
Human Rights

A recap of Tuesday’s top stories: Hope for justice in Myanmar rights violations; First major interview with new Assembly President; Youth activists want a platform in solving climate crisis; Five deaths every minute due to unsafe health care; Number of migrants outpacing world population growth.

A migrant family looks out the window and take pictures as they undertake their journey for resettling.
IOM/Muse Mohammed

Number of migrants now growing faster than world population, new UN figures show

17 September 2019
Migrants and Refugees

The growing number of international migrants has now reached 272 million, outpacing the growth rate of the world’s population, according to new data from the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), released on Tuesday.

Mali has partnered with UNDP to strengthen agricultural communities and empower women to mitigate the social and economic consequences of climate change.
© UNDP/Imen Meliane

FROM THE FIELD: Green wall of opportunities grows in the Sahel

19 August 2019
Climate and Environment

An ambitious plan has got underway to plant a band of trees across the Sahel region of Africa, to hold back desertification and combat climate change, thanks to the support of the United Nations.

Men on camels and donkeys travel through a dust storm in the desert near the western city of Mao, in the Kanem Region of Chad.
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Migration and the climate crisis: the UN’s search for solutions

31 July 2019
Climate and Environment

Throughout human history, migration and climate have always been connected, but in the modern era, the impacts of the man-made climate crisis are likely to extensively change the patterns of human settlement.

Migrants boarding a bus headed towards a processing center in Amman, the capital of Jordan.
IOM/Muse Mohammed (file)

Migrants: ‘A powerful driver’ of economic growth, ‘dynamism and understanding’

18 December 2018
Migrants and Refugees

Human migration is “a powerful driver of economic growth, dynamism and understanding,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said, in his message  commemorating International Migrants Day, marked on 18 December.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, then President-elect of the 73rd session of the General Assembly addresses the media at UN headquarters in New York. June 2018.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

INTERVIEW: ‘Dare to deliver’ more for the world, underscores General Assembly President

17 September 2018
SDGs

In June, the 193-member United Nations General Assembly, elected Ecuadorean Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, the President of its 73rd session. Ms. Espinosa is only the fourth woman to hold that position in the history of the world body, and the first woman ever from the Latin America and the Caribbean region to preside over the Assembly.