Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 12th Jan. UN migration agency on Monday launched a new strategy designed to assist migrants, who lack safe and legal pathways for migrants has left many vulnerable to abuse and deadly assault.
IOM Director General Amy Pope was speaking at the launch insisted that it was crucially important to reduce the risks and impacts of climate change, which has become “the top driver” of migration.
Ms. Pope said that many of the seven million people displaced by violence in neighboring Sudan have now settled due to the conflict and growing inequality have also increased migration pressures today
IOM said in a statement that its strategic plan is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and that the agency is using innovation and technology “to help migrants, their families, communities, and societies flourish”.
“There is not a corner of the globe that is not touched by, or is in some way invested in, the issue of migration,” she added.
