On 21 January 2019, Ciné-ONU will be screening: ‘Styx’. ‘Styx' is a dramatization about Rike - a doctor from Europe – who embodies the typical Western model of happiness and success. She is educated, confident, determined and committed. We see Rike's everyday life, as an emergency doctor, […]

By António Vitorino, Director General International Organization for Migration (IOM) Migration is the great issue of our era. Migration With Dignity (#WithDignity) is the theme of 2018’s International Migrants Day, which we observe on Tuesday (18 December). Dignity is at the core of our mission. Treating all migrants with dignity is […]

  13 December 2018 – Ladders. A bed. A special, secret corridor. Those were only some of the features children included when building a new home for Yassin, an imaginary 10-year-old refugee from Syria, for settling down in his new home country and helping him feel at home. Through interactive workshops within the Children […]

Every 10 December the world celebrates human rights. It was particularly eventful this year as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turned 70 years old. It was on the 10 December 1948 that 48 countries adopted the Declaration that grants fundamental rights to all people, regardless of their race, colour, nationality, sex, religion or […]

  10 December 2018. The Global Compact for Migration has been adopted by over 150 states at a conference in Marrakech, Morocco. “This Compact – in full respect of the sovereignty of states, establishes a framework of international cooperation that is absolutely essential when we face the enormous challenges of migration in […]