20 April 2020 I VIEW IN BROWSER

THE GUARDIAN

UN Agencies Issue Urgent Coronavirus Appeal After USD 2bn Request Falls Well Short

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GP20

Virus Further Marginalizes IDPs: Anniversary of UN Guiding Principles Reaffirms Their Rights

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IOM STORYTELLER

Essential but Unseen: Burying the Dead in South Sudan’s Displacement Sites

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THE NEW HUMANITARIAN

The COVID-19 Excuse? How Migration Policies are Hardening Around the Globe

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  • Deutsche Welle – The coronavirus crisis is hampering Mediterranean rescues as some ports remain restricted.
     
  • Quartz –  Coronavirus caused a 7,000 per cent rise in global travel restrictions in a single month, according to an IOM analysis.
     
  • Devex – IOM HR Director Michael Emery on personnel adjustments the Organization has made during the COVID-19 pandemic.
     
  • MENAFN – Japan supports IOM and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)'s launch of a debris-recycling project to Iraqi IDPs return to their homes in Kirkuk.
     
  • Toronto Observer – COVID-19 has delayed Canada's promise to resettle refugees from migrant detention centres in Libya.
ENTER NEWSROOM

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Keeping migrants safe from COVID-19 is part of protecting your population and indeed the global population.”


Leonard Doyle
IOM Head of Media and Communications Division

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