Crisis of solidarity: urgent calls for a collective response to the global displacement crisis

On International Migrants Day UN officials, refugees and migrants urge the international community to act together to tackle record-high levels of people uprooted worldwide. 

To mark this year’s International Migrants Day, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is calling on the international community to come together and remember the refugees and migrants who have lost their lives or have disappeared while trying to reach safe harbour after arduous journeys across seas and deserts. - More

18 December 2015 – Forced displacement this year is likely exceed all previous records, for the first time topping 60 million, meaning that one out of every 122 persons on Earth has been forced to flee their home, the United Nations refugee agency warned today. - Read More
Global forced displacement for 2015 on track to break all records, topping 60 million – UN

On Migrants Day, UN remembers thousands who lost their lives this year trying to reach safe harbour