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Safe havens: why cities are crucial to the global refugee crisis
06/06/2017. The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016.
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The Atlas of Environmental Migration
May 2017. Through elaborate maps, diagrams, illustrations and case studies the Atlas guides the reader from the roots of environmental migration through to governance.
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Highlighting ‘positive impact’ of migration
04/28/2017. Ms. Arbour is tasked with working with Member States as they develop a first-ever global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.
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How America Receives Refugees
02/20/2017. “We Were So Beloved” is Manfred Kirchheimer’s personal documentary about the German Jews who made it to the United States—and those who didn’t.
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Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 345,440; Deaths at Sea: 4,655
11/22/2016. The Central Mediterranean route connecting North Africa to Italy has proved the deadliest passage, accounting for over 4,100 of this year’s drownings.
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What’s Driving the Global Refugee Crisis?
09/15/2016. A record 65 million people have been displaced from their homes, mostly by war. Half are children.
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How will joining the UN change IOM?
08/12/2016. The International Organization for Migration become a “related organisation” of the United Nations
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"I was born and raised in a refugee camp"
07/06/2016. The world isn’t as globalized as you think ...
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Pope Francis addresses Judges' summit on human trafficking and organized crime
06/03/2016. The Holy Father asked them "to fulfill their vocation and their crucial mission without which there is neither order nor sustainable and integral development, nor social peace".
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Global forced displacement hits record high
06/20/2016. UNHCR Global Trends report finds 65.3 million people, or one person in 113, were displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution in 2015.
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