Migrant caravan: UN agency helping ‘exhausted’ people home

New York, Dec 1 (IBNS): Hundreds of people from Central American States who joined the human caravans travelling towards the United States have been helped home after asking for assistance, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.

Migrant children at US border have right to protection and ‘be with their families’: UNICEF chief

New York, June 20 (IBNS): Separating children from their families is in no-one’s best interest – the head of UN Children’s Fund UNICEF said on Tuesday – pointing to “heartbreaking” stories of infants who have been reportedly removed from their parents after entering the US from Mexico illegally.

Children ‘as young as one’ involved in US separation of migrant families – UN rights office

New York, June 6 (IBNS): The current policy in the United States of separating “extremely young children” from their asylum-seeker or migrant parents along the country’s southern border “always constitutes a child rights violation”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

Thousands of migrants return home safely from Libya as part of UN-supported programme

New York, Mar 14 (JEN): Since last November, 10,171 migrants have safely returned from Libya, the United Nations migration agency announced Tuesday, crediting the achievement to a scale up of its Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) programme.

Iraqis returning home outnumber displaced for first time since 2013, says UN migration agency

Washington, Jan 13 (JEN): The number of Iraqis returning to their area of origin has surpassed those internally displaced for the first time since December 2013, when the country became engulfed in conflict with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh), the United Nations migration agency said Friday.

Migration should be act of hope, not despair; UN chief proposes ways to maximize migrants' contributions

New York, Jan 12 (JEN): Laying out his vision for concrete steps the world can take in 2018 to maximize the contribution millions of migrants are already making to our societies and to agree a set of actions to ensure that the rights of all migrants are fully respected, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday said the issue of migration calls for a truly global response.

British mum leaves husband to be with Afghan migrant

London, Nov 2 (IBNS): A British woman, who volunteered in the makeshift Calais migrant camp in France, reportedly left her husband to be with an Afghan migrant, who she plans to marry soon, reports said.