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IFRC Global Migration and Displacement Newsletter 
JANUARY 2022


Dear colleagues,  

Welcome to the first issue of the IFRC Global Migration and Displacement Newsletter!

This monthly Newsletter is a place to share news and updates as well as highlight key information related to migration and displacement across the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. 

We hope you find the information useful, and as always, please feel free to be in touch with any migration and displacement related queries or comments about the Newsletter. Please also feel free to share this Newsletter with your colleagues, who can subscribe here. 

Ezekiel Simperingham, IFRC Migration and Displacement Global Lead
ezekiel.simperingham@ifrc.org
GLOBAL
IFRC launches multiregional plan to ramp up humanitarian assistance to migrants and displaced people in Africa, Europe and MENA
Noura Jawish, Turkish Red Crescent volunteer delivering the IFRC statement at the UNHCR High-Level Official Meeting 
Drowning just below the surface: IFRC research reveals magnitude of socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 pandemic including on migrants, internally displaced people and refugees 
Red Talk: Meet 5 Red Cross and Red Crescent migrant volunteers from all over the world 
 
"Climate has displaced more than 30 million people, three times more than the people displaced by conflict"

Report: Displacement in a Changing Climate, revealing extent of the impact on people forced to flee their homes by floods, fires and drought around the world
AFRICA
Portait: A safe heaven for Edana
The Sudanese Red Crescent women-led programme that helps trafficked women and girls on their road to recovery
Burkina Faso: Cash assistance to support internally displaced people
THE AMERICAS
Portraits: Darien's migrants, stories of people crossing the impossible path between Colombia and Panama
Communities affected by Hurricanes Eta and Iota are threatened by food insecurity, displacement and the climate crisis
Humanitarian assistance to in-transit migrants in Costa Rica and Panama
ASIA PACIFIC

Surviving rising areas: Living on the edge of a climate change catastrophe in Bangladesh
Thai Red Cross delivers COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable migrant workers
Bangladesh. Water is life: A place to call home next to the most crowded refugee camp on earth
EUROPE
114 migrants rescued by the Ocean Viking by SOS Mediterranée and IFRC teams
A new beginning: From Afghanistan to Europe, thousands of people are now restarting their lives
Portrait: Jamal, Syrian refugee and Turkey Red Crescent volunteer

IFRC and ICRC joint statement on migration crisis at the borders between Belarus, Poland, Lithuania and other countries
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Red Cross Red Crescent reaching 1.5 million people on the move in MENA, yet millions are left without support 
COVID-19, drought and population movement: Thousands of Iranian Red Crescent volunteers are at the frontline

Snapshot: RCRC activities on migration and displacement in Middle East and North Africa 

Brothers across borders: the virtual journey through the eyes of refugees between Syria and Turkey
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