Geneva – Amy E. Pope of the United States of America has begun her five-year term as the eleventh Director General (DG) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The first woman to become Director General in IOM’s 72-year history, DG Pope was elected on 15 May 2023 during the Sixth Special Session of the IOM Council in Geneva.

Final session of IAVE's 4-part webinar series, "Youth Volunteering and Social Change: Challenges and Opportunities".Oct 3, 2023 10:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

By Josh Lerner and Diana Dajer (PeoplePowered).Governments worldwide are grappling with a crisis of democracy, in which a focus solely on elections is failing to deliver inclusive and equitable governance. The recent surge of innovations in participatory and deliberative democracy (PDD) presents a timely opportunity to address this crisis. But how can we turn these one-off innovations into systemi

This timely conference will bring together affected rightsholders from the Global South, practitioners, policymakers and business representatives to discuss what’s key for the directive to effectively protect human rights, tackle environmental and climate impacts and ensure justice for affected workers and communities.