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UN Migration Agency Director General Accepts Jacques Diouf Award for Global Food Security
(IOM) Italy - Yesterday, Wednesday, 5 July, William Lacy Swing, the Director General of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, accepted the Jacques Diouf Award on behalf of the Organization. The Award was jointly granted to IOM and the Rabobank Foundation.
The Jacques Diouf award is presented every two years to individuals or national/regional institutions that have made a significant contribution to the improvement of global food security. Established in 2011, the award pays tribute to former FAO Director-General, Jacques Diouf, recognizing his outstanding leadership, personal engagement, and untiring advocacy in the fight against poverty, hunger and malnutrition. The award consists of an inscribed medal, a scroll describing achievements and a cash prize of USD 25,000.
Migration and Madagascar
(IOM) Madagascar - Madagascar, situated off the Southern eastern coast of Africa, is the fourth largest island in the world and boasts one of the most unique environments. But despite a wealth of natural resources, the country remains one of the world’s poorest and heavily dependent on foreign aid. In the last decade, social and environmental changes have driven more and more people in Madagascar to migrate within the country and abroad in search of opportunities. The IOM Development Fund has been providing support to the Government, through the UN Migration Agency’s office in Madagascar, to help better manage migration.
People displaced by Boko Haram violence in Nigeria wait to be registered to receive humanitarian assistance. Photo: Muse Mohammed/IOM 2016
From Humanitarian Crisis to Human Trafficking
By Michela Macchiavello in Geneva
(IOM) Switzerland - Human trafficking remains largely overlooked and difficult to identify in crisis situations like natural disasters, armed conflicts and areas of extreme violence. This is in spite of a growing recognition of the link between crisis and human trafficking at the global level by States, UN entities and other humanitarian actors.
In times of humanitarian crises, traditional support and protection structures usually relied upon by entire communities up until that point are either seriously negatively affected or effectively broken down. The vulnerability of communities affected by crises to the risk of trafficking and exploitation exponentially increases when livelihoods, previously existing support networks, the protection of rule of law, and other fundamental social and economic systems are disrupted.
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Migration in the News
- El Pais and MO Magazine reported on recent developments along the Central Mediterranean route, Libya, and related issues such as Austria’s warning that it would consider using military assets at its border with Italy to stop migration, and Italy’s proposal to close its ports to NGOs vessels carrying out rescue at sea.
- Europapress.es reported on migrant arrivals via the Central Mediterranean and Italy’s proposals to change how rescue at sea is regulated in the Central Mediterranean.
- Bloomberg reported that Europe is in the midst of its second migration crisis since 2015. This one is smaller than the last, but harder to resolve.
- BBC reported that there has been a sharp rise in migrant arrivals on Spain's south coast this year. Since the start of 2017, 6,464 migrants crossed the Mediterranean to Spain.
- Bisnow reported that the massive influx of refugees into Europe in the past two years has created challenges for societies across the continent – and real estate is at the front lines.
- WNPR discussed why the phenomenon of “climate migration” has a global reach and what legal protections exist for those forced to leave their homes for environmental reasons.
- Vice Impact reported that people who flee their home country's fallout from climate change often become people with no institutional protections.
- CBC shared the story of a Nigerian would-be migrant who was held for ransom in Libya and regrets his attempt to reach Europe.
- Xinhua reported that China on Wednesday donated one million US dollars to aid the displaced and vulnerable communities and returnees in Somalia.
- New Europeans interviewed IOM’s Eugenio Ambrosi on the benefits of, and the need for more adequate legal migration pathways as an essential measure for reducing irregular migration.
Trending on the Internet
- IRIN ran an Op-Ed noting that efforts to close irregular channels into the EU will work only if they are accompanied by an expansion of regular, legal channels. In practice this means EU member states putting a greater number of work visas on the table in discussions with the countries from which people are migrating and through which they are transiting.
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