No one is protected unless everyone is protected
This is a statement issued by the Bangladesh United Nations Network on Migration
File photo of migrants gathering at the Biman Bangladesh Airlines office in Chattogram for return plane tickets to the Middle East, in August 2020. Photo: Rajib Raihan
The Covid-19 crisis has disproportionately impacted people on the move, and as we now enter the next phase of the response the widescale vaccine roll-out we need to ensure that leaving no one behind and equitable access to vaccines are not just phrases, but practice.
Although the number of vaccinations globally has overtaken reported Covid-19 infections, only a quarter of national deployment and vaccination plans submitted to the COVAX Facility include migrants. Due to the highly contagious nature of the virus, we know that migrants remain at higher risk of infection due to many factors, including frequently overcrowded living and working conditions and lack of access to preventative
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I am deeply saddened by the deaths of dozens of migrants in a fire at an Immigration Nationality and Passport Agency holding facility in Sana'a, Yemen,.
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Statement by IOM Director General António Vitorino on the Deadly Fire at a Migrant Holding Facility in Yemen
I am deeply saddened by the deaths of dozens of migrants in a fire at an Immigration Nationality and Passport Agency holding facility in Sana a, Yemen, last Sunday (07/03).
Our thoughts are with the families of those who died, and the more than 170 injured survivors.
Conditions in the holding facility, which was three times over-capacity, were inhumane and unsafe.
IOM does not establish, manage or supervise detention centres in Yemen or anywhere else in the world. Our teams provided migrants essential services like food, health care and water they otherwise would not have received.
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