William Lacy Swing
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William Lacy Swing accepts Jacques Diouf Award for global food security
Jul 8, 2017News Hour: William Lacy Swing, the Director General of IOM, the UN Migration Agency, accepted the Jacques Diouf Award on behalf of the Organization. The Award was jointly granted to IOM and the Rabobank Foundation. The... -
Kasai emergency response benefits from initial UN migration agency funding
Apr 28, 2017News Hour: The Director General of the United Nations Migration Agency, William Lacy Swing, has approved the release of USD 100,000 to kick-start relief operations for more than 1.1 million people displaced by widespread hostilities to... -
William Lacy Swing briefs on global compact for safe, regular and orderly migration
Nov 13, 2016News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing briefed UN Member States and Observers on IOM’s follow up to the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the development of a Global Compact for Safe,... -
William Lacy Swing visits Iraq to Assess Mosul Readiness
Nov 7, 2016News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing visited two emergency sites that are being established by IOM Iraq at Qayara Airstrip and Haj Ali, both in Ninewa Governorate east of Mosul. These sites are being... -
William Lacy Swing briefs Gulf Cooperation Council
Oct 7, 2016News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing last week briefed the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf for the first time at the United Nations in New York with the aim of... -
IOM DG participates in historical peace agreement signing in Colombia
Sep 28, 2016News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing took part in a historic ceremony in Cartagena marking the formal signing of a peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia... -
China has officially applied for membership of IOM
Jun 15, 2016News Hour: International Organization for Migration Director General William Lacy Swing on Monday met with People’s Republic of China Vice Foreign Minister Wang Chao who delivered a letter of application for membership in IOM. “China’s membership...
