Prof. Parvati Nair, UNU-GCM: United Nations University, Barcelona A child should not have to die to mobilise goverments into credible action. The photograph of three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s body washed ashore, which has mobilised international responses to the ongoing migration crisis in the Mediterranean over the past week, signals two inter-related tragedies: firstly, that of the human loss and suffering that is ongoing in this context, and secondly, that of the dire shortcomings of global and r...
The United Nations University (UNU) announces the launch of the UNU Migration Network. Responding to the need of policymakers and scholars to better understand and cope with migration-related issues, the new network — coordinated by the UNU Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) — integrates UNU system research on migration. Migration is a major global trend. Some 232 million people (3.2 per cent of the world’s population) are now living outside the country of their birth, wh...