Cita del día
Of course there are days no migrant dies – and other days when hundreds do. Nonetheless, it’s time to stop counting and start changing, beginning with the way we manage migration worldwide.” – IOM Director General William Lacy Swing. Read more here.
“[Migration] has to be managed in a responsible manner which is not always being done right now. We all have a responsibility toward people on the move.” – IOM Director General William Lacy Swing. Read more here.
“Counter-trafficking efforts in emergencies are a matter of life and death. Employing such measures in crisis settings helped prevent individuals from falling victim to highly exploitative practices that could seriously impair their physical or psychological well-being or prove fatal.” – Ashraf El Nour, IOM Permanent Observer to the UN in New York. Read more here.
"As a result of complex crises, refugees and internally displaced persons are finding themselves in situations of protracted displacement. Many seek their own solutions, including by moving locally or across borders to access opportunities and services. IOM’s new Progressive Resolution of Displacement Situations Framework recognizes people as drivers of their own recovery." – IOM Director General William Lacy Swing
“If you can get back to a historically accurate narrative that migration has always been historically positive, if you can get back to that narrative, then you can get a more sensible dialogue.” – IOM DG William Lacy Swing. Read more here.
“Migrants are builders of resilience, agents of local development and city-makers.” – IOM Director General William Lacy Swing. Watch here.
"Effective (migration) policies do not depend on how many people enter or are returned in the short term, but on their prospect of achieving real and durable change back in their countries of origin, and on the causes that have driven their “journey” in the first place.” – Laura Thompson, IOM Deputy Director General.
“As public officials and as thought leaders, we need to use our power of public pronouncement to accurately articulate the positive contribution of migrants to our communities.” – IOM DG William Lacy Swing.
"These emergency sites will provide critical shelter for people displaced as a result of military operations (in Mosul.) Time is very much of the essence – the sooner we are able to start emergency site construction, the better the assistance displaced people will receive." – IOM Iraq Chief of Mission Thomas Weiss
“People are dying needlessly because our policies end up indirectly and inadvertently subsidizing the smugglers. The migrants are pushed into smugglers' hands because there are not enough (legal) avenues for people to get to their destinations."- IOM Director General William Lacy Swing