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The Migration Newsdesk - 22 September 2016 20160922 | International
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A woman sells produce at a flooded market place in Port-au-Prince after
hurricane Sandy ravaged the west of Haiti. Photo: Logan Abassi / UN.Disasters
Are Fuelling Displacement And MigrationUnited Nations - Globally, more than 60
million people are displaced by conflict, violence, disasters and human rights
violations. This is the highest level of forced displacement since World War
II, write UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk
Reduction Robert Glasser and IOM Director General William Lacy Swing in the
Huffington Post.The principle focus of this week’s UN Summit on Refugees and
Migrants was on the suffering endured by those who are forced from their homes
by conflict. Nonetheless, it must be recognized that there is a growing problem
of displacement which is not conflict related but driven by natural
hazards.Last year 19.2 million were displaced by natural hazards in 113
countries. The majority of this displacement was caused by extreme weather
events due to a record number of droughts, widespread flooding and 90 major
tropical storms. Much of this was fuelled by a very strong El Niño occurring in
the context of climate change which threatens a further 75 million people who
live just one metre above sea level.Displacement is often an indication of the
breakdown of normal coping strategies when resilience is undermined by a severe
disaster event. Almost three million people remain in temporary accommodation
in Nepal, over a year after an earthquake which killed more than 8,000 people
in a country which is still recovering from long years of conflict.People are
on the move across southern Africa as a result of a prolonged agricultural
drought in a region where the resources for conserving water, and thereby
reducing disaster risk, are very limited.Read on |
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In Sariakandi, on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh, regular
flooding and land erosion is driving families from their homes. File photo:
Abir Abdullah/ IOM. Climate Refugees, Lacking Protections, Can’t Even Live Like
RefugeesUnited Nations - At the UN General Assembly’s first-ever Summit for
Refugees and Migrants this week, world leaders are working towards a resolution
to the growing refugee crisis, writes Ari Phillips in Fusion.According to the
UN, an “unprecedented series of simultaneous, complex and protracted crises and
humanitarian emergencies” has created the perfect storm, leaving the
international community facing a daunting migrant crisis that shows no sign of
relenting.As of 2015, there were 65 million forcibly displaced persons in the
world, including over 21 million refugees, three million asylum-seekers, and
over 40 million internally displaced persons.These statistics include an
unknown number of climate refugees, driven to relocate due to natural disasters
and other adverse impacts of global warming. To date, climate refugees are not
officially protected under the 1951 Refugee Convention.The solution is not
necessarily as simple as just amending the Convention, which was adopted before
human-driven climate change became its own global crisis, and entered the
global consciousness.“With the international community unable to address the
current flux of refugees and migrants, it is extremely important for world
leaders who are attending the UN Summit to draw the link between climate change
and forced migration,” said Alice Thomas, Climate Displacement Program Manager
for Refugees International.Read on |
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| Richard Davies interviews Leonard Doyle on “Displaced people: The global
phenomenon of our time.” Listen to the podcast here. |
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Dahham: "I got my diploma recognized, I have a safe home, and I started a NGO
to help refugees get their qualifications acknowledged."
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"Every day, up to 1,000 dazed and confused Afghan migrants, some carrying
serious injuries, arrive on buses from Iran at the remote Islam Qala border
crossing. Over 250,000 have crossed in 2016." Follow us. |
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"We must not forget that migrants contribute to the economies of their host
countries, as well as to the global economy." - Myanmar State Counsellor Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi. More here. |
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Situation Report on the Emergency Operations in Nigeria | Read here. |
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| Migration in the News
- BBC reported the air attack on a UN humanitarian convoy and a Syrian Arab
Red Crescent warehouse near Aleppo. The convoy comprised 31 lorries loaded with
non-food aid, clothes and baby food supplied by WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF and IOM.
- AP, Reuters, CNN and International Business Times reported that a boat
carrying African migrants heading to Europe capsized in the Mediterranean off
the coast of Egypt, killing at least 43 people.
- News Deeply interviewed IOM Director General William Lacy Swing about the
migration crisis, IOM’s entry to the UN and why it matters for the organization
to have a seat at the table.
- EU External Action Service reported EU foreign policy chief Federica
Mogherini’s comments at Roundtable 5 on the Global Compact at the UN Summit for
Refugees and Migrants.
- Euractiv reported that the EU has signed a EUR1 million contract with IOM
to provide equipment and training to the Serbian authorities to control
migration across their borders.
- Indonesia’s Berita Satu reported a meeting between Indonesian Minister of
Labour Muhammad Hanif Dhakiri and IOM to discuss the protection of migrant
workers under the Colombo Process and the Abu Dhabi Dialogue.
Trending on the Internet
- Wall Street Journal published an Op-Ed by financier George Soros
outlining his plan to invest USD 500 million in startups, established
companies, social-impact initiatives and businesses founded by migrants and
refugees.
- Oxford University’s International Migration Institute reported the launch
of a new research report in partnership with ICMPD on migrants in countries in
crisis.
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