Theme: Population movement
Marrakesh, 10 December 2018 – Today’s adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is an important step towards fixing a “broken” approach to migration. But it must be followed by decisive and tangible action that makes a diff …
Budapest/Geneva, 10 December 2018 – Thousands of people trapped in Bosnia and Herzegovina desperately need humanitarian assistance ahead of freezing winter temperatures, says the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). …
Geneva, 6 December 2018 –Red Cross and Red Crescent leaders will strongly press governments to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, and to translate the ambitions of the agreement into tangible actions that prioritize the s …
INTRODUCTION: HARROWING JOURNEYS AND UNSPEAKABLE SUFFERING Protracted violent conflicts, devastating climate events, entrenched economic inequality, relentless persecution and crime, and other complex problems with no easy solutions drive millions of p …
Geneva, 3 December 2018 – Thousands of unaccompanied and separated children are at daily risk of sexual and gender-based violence along the world’s migratory trails, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warned tod …
Geneva, 28 November 2018 – The following is in response to the announcement earlier today by the Italian government that it will not attend the Intergovernmental Conference on the Global Compact for Migration. This decision follows similar announcement …
30 refugees and asylum seekers participate in a programme that enables them to share knowledge and experience about life in Italy with new arrivals. During the sessions, they study the legal statuses of migrants and refugees, their rights and responsibilities and ways to access services in different regions of Italy.
Meat is a luxury for people who have fled violence in Rakhine state and who are now living in camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Many of them live on a diet of rice, lentils, seasonal vegetables, spices, wheat and dry fish, most of which are food they are not used to eating.
More than 4,900 people from the massive migratory flow from Honduras, have received humanitarian assistance from the Guatemalan Red Cross.
Migrant and refugee children in Turkey rarely have time to play. Boys and girls as young as eight have to work in the field to support their families.
