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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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New approach to internal displacement
10/24/2016. "Through this new way of working we must aim not only to save lives in the short term, but to work with development and other partners over years", Kyung-wha Kang, the UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator
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How to Ensure Lasting Peace in South Sudan
10/06/2016. We must shift the incentive structure of the country’s leaders toward human rights
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Lessons learned from managing the transit of migrants
09/01/2016. The Croatian Government managed the transit of 650,000 migrants in late 2015 and early 2016.
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Migrants significantly contribute to economic growth
09/01/2016. In 2015 alone, migrants sent $432 billion back to developing countries.
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"Lebanon is not a country of permanent asylum"
09/20/2016. "Lebanon is no longer able to assimilate additional displaced persons, and the United Nations should envision resettling the displaced Syrians within their national borders." Tammam Salam
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ICRC president calls on world leaders to address root causes of refugee movements
09/19/2016. Peter Maurer said that it is too often violence that leads to the massive displacement of people.
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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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IOM Member States Endorse Move to Join United Nations
07/01/2016. Member States of the International Organization decided that IOM should join the United Nations system as a related organization.
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