- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been following with great concern the developments in Afghanistan and the grave consequences for.
The director general of the UN migration agency has expressed "extreme concern" over the "deteriorating situation in Afghanistan." The Taliban advances are causing huge amounts of displacement both internally and externally, contributing to a rise in the number of people who are fleeing.
All indomani della Liberazione di Firenze, celebrata quest anno all insegna della solidarietà verso i lavoratori della Gkn e tutti coloro che rischiano di .
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William Lacy Swing, former Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and longtime US diplomat, has died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was 86 years old.
“It is with a heavy heart that I learned of my predecessor’s passing today,” IOM Director General António Vitorino said on Saturday. “His was a life of service to his country and humanity, and a source of inspiration to us all.”
Swing was born in Lexington, North Carolina in the United States in 1934. He entered the Foreign Service after graduating from Yale University (1956) and completing postgraduate studies in Germany (1960).
Over four decades, his diplomatic career included six US Ambassadorial postings, in the Republic of the Congo, Liberia, South Africa, Nigeria, Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo before retiring from the US Foreign Service in 2001 and embarking on a second career with the United Nations.