Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson (left) speaks to journalists at a press stakeout following the High-Level Event on “Strengthening Cooperation on Migration and Refugee Movements in the Perspective of the New Development Agenda”.By Arlene ChangNEW YORK, Oct 1 2015 (IPS)As the world suffers its biggest upheaval of human mobility, with 60 million people forced to desert their homes or countries due to persecution, armed conflicts, starvation and hunger that are a veritable danger to their lives, the response from the international community has been rather laggard.Rolling disasters like in Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Libya and Yemen, the Boko Haram in …read more
Source: Inter Press Service
