02/02/2018
Phnom Penh, 2 February 2018 (IOM)* – In villages across rural Cambodia, where an estimated million adults have migrated to neighbouring Thailand, and as many as four million have migrated inside Cambodia to find work, grandparents usually stay behind to bring up their grandchildren..
Cambodian children are often brought up by their grandmothers when their parents migrate in search of work. Photo: UN Migration Agency (IOM)
The social cost to families “left behind” by migrant workers on the global stage is clearly considerable, but up to now has attracted very little research, according to IOM Global Migration Health and Epidemiology Coordinator Dr. Kol Wickramage.
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02/02/2018
Geneva, 2 February 2018 (IOM)* – At least 90 migrants are reported to have drowned, when a boat capsized off the coast of Libya this morning (02 February 2018).
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According to IOM Libya’s Olivia Headon, 10 bodies are reported to have washed up on Libyan shores – two Libyans and eight Pakistani nationals.
Two survivors are reported to have swam to shore, while another was rescued by a fishing boat, Headon said.
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02/02/2018
The human cost of South Sudan’s long-running conflict has reached “epic proportions” with the number of refugees set to rise beyond three million by the end of this year, potentially making it Africa’s largest refugee crisis since the mid-1990s, the head of the UN refugee agency on 1 February 2018 said.
Newly arrived refugees from South Sudan tell UNHCR head Filippo Grandi and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock why they fled. Photo: UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin
Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, together with UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, launched a $3.2 billion appeal to help those forced to flee their homes, as fighting continues across the world’s youngest country.
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