migration

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.

Tarek Yousef, director of Brookings Doha Center, speaking to UN News at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration, in Marrakesh, Morocco.
UN News/Ben Lybrand

Implementing first-ever global migration pact must involve public and private sector push

13 December 2018
Interviews

The private sector and civil society, working in tandem, “hold the biggest promise” for making the first-ever Global Compact on migration a success. That’s the opinion of Tarek Yousef, the director of the Brookings Institution at Doha Centre who spoke to  Mustafa Al Gamal of UN News. 

 

 

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“Trocha” illegal river crossing. Colombia-Venezuela border near Cúcuta, Colombia, one of the main entry points for people crossing from Venezuela into Colombia. 20 September 2018.
WFP/Jonathan Dumont

A safer, more dignified journey for all migrants, tops agenda at global conference in Marrakech

7 December 2018
Migrants and Refugees

Top politicians and officials from across the world will gather in Marrakech, Morocco this weekend, ahead of a major conference convened by the UN, to formally adopt an all-inclusive, extensive global agreement aimed at making migration safer, and more dignified for all.

Louise Arbour, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

'No question' of migration Compact's positive benefits: Arbour

5 December 2018
Interviews

There is “no question,” of the positive benefits that could be reaped from migration, if the world implements the UN Global Compact, an all-inclusive agreement to make migration safe and orderly. That's the view of UN Special Representative for International migration, Louise Arbour, who spoke with Mustafa al-Gamal of UN News ahead of next week's Compact conference in Morocco.

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UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi.
UNCTAD

Migrant countries should do more to sustain livelihoods in source nations: UNCTAD

26 September 2018
Interviews

Migration “is a force for good” for host nations, but Mukhisa Kituyi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD, tells UN News what Ethiopia and Rwanda have done to offer migrants economic opportunities closer to home. The UNCTAD chief also reflects on the passing of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, whom he describes as an inspiration for his moral leadership.

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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.

One of the focus of Miroslav Lajčák's Presidency of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly was on the youth around the world. Here, Mr. Lajčák addresses the Assembly’s Youth Dialogue.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías

INTERVIEW: With ‘many good things’ accomplished, it’s still ‘a work in progress’, says UN Assembly President reflecting on his year in office

6 September 2018
Peace and Security

Last May, the United Nations General Assembly elected Miroslav Lajčák, the Foreign Minister of Slovakia, President of its 72nd annual session, and he formally took up the job on 12 September.

Secretary-General António Guterres briefs press at UN Headquarters.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

‘Multilateralism in action’ says UN chief ahead of expected agreement on migration compact

12 July 2018
Migrants and Refugees

With the General Assembly set to agree a new global compact on migration, the United Nations chief on Thursday highlighted its “immense potential” to harness the benefits of orderly migration and lower the risks facing millions on the move without documentation.

A young child holds a toy as she seeks shelter with other Afghan refugees from very cold, wet weather conditions at the Tabanovce reception centre for refugees in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after being refused entry into Serbia. February 2016.
UNICEF/Tomislav Georgiev

EU migration deal welcomed by UN agencies

29 June 2018
Migrants and Refugees

UN humanitarian agencies on Friday broadly welcomed a freshly-inked deal on migration by European Union leaders which calls for more Member States to take responsibility within their borders for those in need of protection, amid a hardening stance by some since 2015.

Participants at an International Organization for Migration (IOM) training on welding, mechanics, masonry and tailoring skills in Rwanda. According to a UN report, remittances accounted for 13 per cent of the country's GDP in 2012 figures.
IOM Photo

End the ‘harmful narrative’; migration is a net-gain for Africa, finds UN report

31 May 2018
Economic Development

The large-scale migration of people within Africa tends to boost growth and lifts the continent’s whole economy, a new United Nations report has said, urging the world to dispel misconceptions and “harmful narratives” targeting migration.