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GENEVA (AP) — The new head of the U.N.'s migration agency said Monday that the private sector is “desperate” for their countries to take in migrants to mop up labor shortages, especially in the West — endeavoring to steer a narrative away from reticence and suspicion about migrants in many parts of the world. ”We hear from ... the private sector globally, but especially in Europe and in North America, that they are desperate for migration in order to meet their own labor market needs and in order to continue to fuel innovation within their own companies,” Pope, who is American, told reporters. Pope insisted that countries must ensure legal and proper “pathways” to migration, a longstanding call by U.N. institutions. Pope officially took over Sunday from Antonio Vitorino of Portugal, her former boss, whom she outlasted in a U.S.-vs.-European Union showdown earlier this year. The Geneva-based agency has only had two non-American directors-general since its founding in 1951, and today it brings together 175 member countries and more than 20,000 staff.

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☆ Companies like Microsoft can help manage migration: incoming UN migration chief
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Emma Farge | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

SummarySummary Companies 9th American Amy Pope set to lead UN migration agencySays Western asylum systems are 'completely overwhelmed'Mediterranean deaths are symptom of broader trendGENEVA, June 1 (Reuters) - The incoming head of the U.N. migration agency said on Thursday that she has talked to companies like Microsoft (MSFT.O) to see how they can build partnerships to manage migration. "I want to go to the private sector being a major part of how we deliver around the world," Pope told Reuters in an interview. Pope, who formally takes office as Director-General in October, cited talks with Microsoft about projects in Africa as an example of increased private sector investment in migration work. At present only about $15 million of IOM's total budget of $2.5 billion comes from the private sector, she said. Another priority of her mandate is to create more "climate sustainable solutions" for migration, Pope said.

Persons: Amy Pope, Antonio Vitorino, Pope, It's, Joe Biden, Biden, Ted Hesson, Jane Merriman Organizations: Microsoft, Organization for Migration, Reuters, U.S, Biden, IOM, Thomson Locations: GENEVA, Geneva, Portuguese, Africa, U.S, Mexico, North Africa, Europe, Washington

GENEVA, May 15 (Reuters) - European countries and the United States are running rival candidates to head the U.N. migration agency in an unusually tense contest between allies that opens in Geneva on Monday. Its 175 member states will vote by secret ballot in closed-door meetings starting on Monday morning. She pledges to "proactively address the challenges of migration and harness its benefits" and says she will focus on its root causes. "We have never happened to have an incumbent director general that faces a competition with one of his deputy generals. He said he had Portugal's backing as well as the "strong encouragement" of the European Union.

☆ Over 400 migrants died crossing Mediterranean early in 2023 -UN agency
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) documented 441 migrant deaths between January and March on the world's deadliest migration route, in what it said was likely an undercount. Around half of those deaths were linked to delays in state-led rescue efforts and, in one case, the absence of any rescue mission, it said. "The persisting humanitarian crisis in the central Mediterranean is intolerable," said IOM Director General António Vitorino. "With more than 20,000 deaths recorded on this route since 2014, I fear that these deaths have been normalized. This "central" route is distinct from the Western crossing from Morocco to Spain.

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