Summit on Refugees and Migrants

United Nations, New York - The United Nations Summit on Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants which took place on Monday in New York, provides a singular opportunity for the global community to forge a greater consensus on managing the worlds movements of migrants and refugees. IOM considers migration to be a mega-trend of the 21st Century representing unprecedented human mobility with one of every seven persons worldwide living or working somewhere other than their place of birth.

IOM Director General William Lacy Swing and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the signing ceremony at UN Source: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas 2016