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Over the last decade, EU policy has employed both an indirect, context-shaping approach to climate security, which focuses more on process than output, and a protective-autonomy approach, which focuses on multiple defensive approaches to safeguard the EU’s geopolitical interests. In putting these approaches into practice, the EU has advanced a rich profusion of climate security initiatives; diplomats certainly do not need to be told that “climate policy is foreign policy,” as they have b...

Tangiers, July 1st, 2021 (ECA) - The ECA Office for North Africa initiated on Thursday, July 1st in Tangiers (Kingdom of Morocco) a two-day, hybrid workshop on migration statistics and skills recognition in Africa. The meeting took place as part of a series of ECA-led workshops on migration policies in Africa. Participants included representatives of Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, the UN System as well as the private sector, civil society and the media. The workshop had several goals, incl...

Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little assistance. Part of the problem is that today’s laws, regulations and international agreeme...

MANILA, Philippines — United States President Joe Biden yesterday cited the enduring friendship between the Philippines and the United States as he joined Filipinos in celebrating the country’s 123rd Independence Day. In his first Philippine Independence Day message as leader of the country’s long-time ally, Biden called for the continued partnership between the US and the Philippines in addressing challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic. “The...

Geneva – William Lacy Swing, former Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and longtime US diplomat, has died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was 86 years old. "It is with a heavy heart that I learned of my predecessor's passing today," IOM Director General António Vitorino said on Saturday. "His was a life of service to his country and humanity,

IOM William Lacy Swing, former Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and longtime US diplomat, has died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was 86 years old. “It is with a heavy heart that I learned of my predecessor’s passing today,” IOM Director General António Vitorino said on Saturday. “His was a life of service to his country and humanity, and a source of inspiration to us all.” Swing was born in Lexington, North Carolina in the United States in 1934. ...

English News and Press Release on Somalia about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Flash Flood, Tropical Cyclone and more; published on 11 Jun 2021 by IOM

IOM Calls for Greater Support for Families of Migrants Missing en Route to Spain Format A young man tells the research team about his missing older brother, who disappeared on his migration journey to Spain years ago. © IOM Berlin – More than 9,100 people are known to have died on irregular migration routes to Spain since 1988, according to records collected by IOM’s Missing Migrants Project and the Andalusian Association for Human Rights (APDHA). The vast majority disappeared at sea, and ...

More than 9,100 people are known to have died on irregular migration routes to Spain since 1988, according to records collected by IOM's Missing Migrants...

Katharine M. Donato, Georgetown University; Amanda Carrico, University of Colorado Boulder; and Jonathan M. Gilligan, Vanderbilt University   Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little assistance. Part of the problem is that today’s laws, regulations and international agreements about migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees offer few, if any, specia...