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.
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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. 

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.

UN Special Representative for International Migration Louise Arbour.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

FEATURE: Highlighting ‘positive impact’ of migration key to changing policies, public opinion – UN envoy

28 April 2017
Migrants and Refugees

Recognizing that the issue of large movements of refugees and migrants is too vast for any one country to handle on its own, the United Nations convened a meeting of world leaders in September 2016 with the aim of finding durable solutions. At the summit, all 193 Member States came together around one plan, the New York Declaration, expressing their political will to save lives, protect rights and share responsibility on a global scale.

IOM Director General William Lacy Swing.
IOM

INTERVIEW: ‘It is important to let the positive side of migration be told’ – IOM Director-General

20 December 2016
Migrants and Refugees

Every day, for the past three years, just over a dozen migrants have died on average, or one person every two hours, according to William Lacy Swing, Director-General of the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM), in a message to mark the International Migrants Day, 18 December.