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• Harness ‘immense’ potential offered by migration, UN officials urge at global forum June 28, 2017
  Speaking at a major international meeting on migration and development, senior United Nations officials have underlined the need for safe, orderly and regular migration options to ensure that people around the world are not forced to undertake arduous and dangerous pathways in their search for a better future.
• Civilians must not be sacrificed for military victories – UN rights chief, as thousands trapped in Raqqa June 28, 2017
  Voicing grave concern over the fate of as many as 100,000 civilians &#8220effectively trapped&#8221 in Syria&#39s Raqqa governorate amid the ongoing offensive against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant fighters, the top United Nations rights official urged all parties to the conflict to enact measures to allow civilians who wish to flee the fig […]
• UN agency saves 600 stranded migrants in Sahara Desert, but 52 dead in Niger June 27, 2017
  The United Nations migration agency in Niger has saved more than 600 lives since April 2017 through a new search and rescue operation that targets migrants stranded in Sahara Desert, but 52 did not survive.
• More than $350 million pledged for refugees in Uganda; &#39A good start, we cannot stop,&#39 says UN chief June 23, 2017
  A &#39Solidarity Summit&#39 for refugees hosted by Uganda has raised some $358 million in pledges, the United Nations announced today.
• Security &#39number one concern&#39 of displaced Iraqis seeking to return home &#8211 UN study June 23, 2017
  With three million Iraqis remaining internally displaced across the country, the United Nations migration agency today published findings of a study showing that the decision to return or remain displaced depends largely on how close their home is to the frontline of conflict.
• In Uganda, UN chief meets with South Sudanese refugees, urges world to show solidarity June 22, 2017
  With Uganda hosting almost one million South Sudanese refugees &#8220as sisters and brothers and sharing with them their land and everything they have,&#8221 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today urged the international community to show solidarity with those that had fled their homes, as well as with the Ugandan Government and peop […]