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Antonio Vitorino elected as new Director General (DG) of International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Antonio Vitorino, a lawyer and politician from Portugal, has been elected Director General of International Organization for Migration (IOM). He will succeed William Lacy Swing on 1st October 2018. IOM is the UN Migration Agency and is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration with over 10,000 staff serving in over 400 offices ..
Topics: António Vitorino • Demography • Environmental social science • Forced displacement • Forced migration • Human geography • Human migration • Internally displaced person • International Organization for Migration • Persecution • Population • William L. Swing
Geneva Convention, 1951
The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, also known as the 1951 Refugee Convention, is a United Nations multilateral treaty that defines who is a refugee, and sets out the rights of individuals who are granted asylum and the responsibilities of nations that grant asylum. The Convention also sets out which people do not qualify as refugees, such as war criminals. The Convention builds ..
Topics: Asylum seeker • Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees • Forced migration • Human rights instruments • International law • Law by country • Politics by country • Refugee • Refugees • Right of asylum
US withdraws from United Nations’ Global Compact on Migration
The United States has pulled out from the UN Global Compact on Migration as it does not meet the policies and principles of the Donald Trump administration. The US has been a part of the non-binding New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants since it was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2016. ..
Topics: Aftermath of war • Demography • Forced migration • Global Compact • Global Compact for Migration • Human migration • Presidency of Donald Trump • Refugee • Right of asylum • United Nations • Xenophobia
UNHCR to get 2017 Mother Teresa Memorial Award Award for social justice
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been named as the recipient of the Harmony Foundation’s 2017 Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice as an acknowledgement of its exceptional work worldwide. The award will be presented to the UNHCR on December 10, 2017. The UNHCR provides humanitarian aid to innumerable people internally ..
Topics: Aftermath of war • Cultural globalization • Demography • Forced migration • Human rights abuses • Internally displaced person • Refugee • Right of asylum • Statelessness • UNHCR Representation in India • United Nations Development Group • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Record Aid Appeal of $22.7 billion by UN for 2017
In a record appeal, the UN has expressed need for $22.7 billion to cover humanitarian projects of relief which will cover 93 million people across 33 countries. The appeal has shown the state of humanitarian crisis prevalent in the world. The massive need has not been seen ever since World War II and has been ..
Topics: Cultural globalization • Demography • Forced migration • Human rights abuses • Humanitarian aid • Internally displaced person • Refugee crisis