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Pandemic: To Recover Better, We Need Safe and Orderly Migration in the Asia-Pacific In the Asia-Pacific region, the number of international migrants has grown from 52 million in 1990 to over 65 million today, roughly 25% of all the world’s international migrants. A photograph by Kaung Swan Thar of a migrant worker in Yangon, Myanmar, on display at the Bangkok Art Biennale. Photo: Bangkok Art Biennale via Thomson Reuters Foundation Migrants move in search of safer and better lives. They con...

Deputy Minister Nguyen Thi Ha said nearly 173,000 people were weaned off drugs at detox facilities during the period. Further efforts will be made to improve the quality and efficiency of drug detoxification programmes over the next five years. The ministry has set a target of 100 percent of detox facilities and other facilities that provide detox services in the community to receive investment to ensure

Posted:  03/12/21 Bangkok – The first regional review of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Asia and the Pacific concluded today (19 March) with a call for greater collaboration among countries in the region to implement this global framework for action to reap the benefits of migration for all.  The review, organized from 10 to 12 March by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Regional UN Network* on Migration ...

[Reuters] The coronavirus pandemic has stigmatized and stranded migrants who should be vaccinated promptly and valued as essential to the region’s economic recovery, a senior United Nations official said Wednesday as an international conference on migration opened in Bangkok. The Asia-Pacific’s migrant workforce – which comprises 40 percent of the world’s migrants – symbolizes the region’s dynamism, said Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, a U.N. undersecretary-general and exe...

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(PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO) The Philippine government has recommended the appointment of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Sarah Lou Arriola for the position of Deputy Director General for Management and Reform of the IOM, the Palace announced Thursday. Arriola has served as head of the Migrant Workers’ Affairs section of the DFA since 2017. She was the first woman appointed to that post. In a statement, the Presidential Communications Operations Office cited Arriola as “an adept and accomplished mig...

Addressing a UN regional forum on migration, António Vitorino, director-general of the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) underlined the key role migrants played before, during and after the worst of the pandemic’s waves.

Joint communiqué: Putting children’s rights at the heart of the Global Compact for Migration’s implementation in Asia-Pacific Format As State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), governments have a duty to respect, protect and fulfill the specific obligations related to each child within their jurisdiction, without discrimination based on their or their parents’ migration or other status. We, the undersigned individuals and organisations, call on governments across...

Illustration by Tim Robinson. “To the memory of Christopher Columbus,” reads the inscription to the large Columbus Fountain in Washington, D.C., “whose high faith and indomitable courage gave to mankind a New World.” The monument was erected in 1912, and one cringes reading those words now. Columbus did not give mankind a New World. As the statue of the Native American man kneeling by Columbus’s side suggests, that world was already fully possessed by humanity. Books in Review By...

UN opens inclusive dialogue for enhancing migration governance in Ukraine Format Over 90 representatives of the government, civil society, migrant and Diaspora associations, international organizations, academia and private sector gathered online on 25 February 2021 to discuss the UN Policy Paper on Migration. The analytical document was created jointly by all the UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Ukraine with the aim to capture a common UN position on both in- and out-migration in Ukrainian...