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Sri Lankan government, WHO and IOM representatives at the closing ceremony of the 2nd Global Consultation. Photo: IOM
Leaving No One Behind: A Call to Action on Migrant Health
Posted on Fri. Feb. 24, 2017
Sri Lanka - Global health leaders yesterday (23/2) adopted the Colombo Statement, which calls for international collaboration to improve the health and well-being of migrants and their families. The move aims to address the health challenges posed by increasingly mobile populations.
The declaration was adopted on the closing day of the 2nd Global Consultation on Migrant Health, hosted by the Government of Sri Lanka, IOM and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena addressed the meeting, which was attended by senior public health officials from over 40 countries.
“Protecting the health of mobile populations is a public health and human rights imperative. Ensuring the highest attainable standard of health for all, including migrants and refugees, is something we must all strive towards, and is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of leaving no one behind,” said WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Dr. Poonam Khetrapal Singh.
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Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 13,924; Deaths: 366
Posted on Fri. Feb. 24, 2017
Switzerland - IOM reports that 13,924 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 22 February, with over 75 percent arriving in Italy and the rest in Greece and Spain. This compares with 105,427 through the first 53 days of 2016.
IOM Rome reports that over 10,701 migrant arrivals in Italy before the end of February represents a significant increase compared with arrivals in the same period during each of the past two years, when slightly over 8,100 migrants arrived by the end of February. IOM notes that with five days to go in the month, Italian arrivals could be 50 per cent higher than those recorded during the first two months of either 2015 or 2016.
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Japan funds IOM humanitarian projects worldwide. Photo IOM
Japan Backs IOM Humanitarian Operations in 2017
Posted on Fri. Feb. 24, 2017
Japan - The Government of Japan has allocated USD 34.3 million to support IOM’s operations to assist vulnerable migrants including displaced persons, refugees, returnees and affected communities around the world in 2017.
The funding will also contribute to increasing the capacity of various governments in humanitarian border management to cope with displacement resulting from conflicts and to enhance security.
Over half of the amount (USD 18.1 million) has been allocated towards IOM programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Somalia and South Sudan.
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“In times of increasing mobility and migration flows, of globalisation, of terrorism, the only way forward is together.” – Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship. Read his speech here.
Migration in the News
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Al Jazeera and AFP reported that the South African government has called for calm after a wave of xenophobic violence in which dozens of shops and houses owned by immigrants have been torched and looted near Pretoria and Johannesburg.
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South Sudan’s Gurtong reported that IOM has started to relocate over 6,000 internally displaced people sheltering at the UN Protection of Civilians site in Wau, due to overcrowding.
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AP reported that over 1,000 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean between Libya and Italy since Wednesday.
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CDN reported that an Amnesty International report noted the lack of a National Human Rights Plan in the Dominican Republic. The country deported over 40,000 people of Haitian descent between January and September 2016.
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Daily News Egypt reported that Egypt’s Ministry for Immigration and Expatriate Affairs and IOM have hosted Egypt’s first international partners round table on harnessing the development impact of migration.
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BBC News and Reuters reported a 49,000 drop in net migration to the United Kingdom in the year to September 2016. It fell to 273,000.
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