Amy Pope will become the first woman to serve as director general of the International Organization for Migration.
GENEVA (AN) — The next head of the International Organization for Migration will be Amy Pope, an American lawyer already serving as the agency's deputy chief in charge of management and reform.
Pope, with the backing of U.S. President Joe Biden, defeated her boss, IOM Director General António Vitorino, a Portuguese lawyer, socialist and veteran politician with the backing of the European Union, during the IOM Council's 6th Special Session, IOM announced on Monday.
U.N. investigators found nine UNRWA staff members 'may have been involved' in Hamas' attacks on Israel last year.
Extreme forms of violence, human rights violations and exploitation afflict those fleeing for safety by land and sea.
The U.N. refugee agency’s report documents lives upended by persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations.
Migrants are sending home a record amount of money, boosting the economies of the countries they left behind.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia depends on Russia to meet its energy needs and China to buy its exports.
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts for people in Yemen (US$20 million) and Ethiopia (US$15 million).
