{"id":42105,"date":"2026-02-28T09:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42105"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:04:27","slug":"un-chief-says-migration-is-not-a-crisis-urges-global-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42105","title":{"rendered":"UN chief says &#8216;migration is not a crisis,&#8217; urges global cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged countries on Friday to reject fear-driven narratives on migration, stressing that &#8220;migration is not a crisis&#8221; and calling for stronger international cooperation to manage human mobility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Human mobility is profoundly shaping our world,&#8221; Guterres said during an address to the General Assembly on his report on the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet instead of responding with cooperation, the global reaction has too often been driven by fear, division, and rank opportunism,&#8221; he said, warning that &#8220;across continents, migrants are being instrumentalised to score political points \u2013 with devastating human consequences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read:  US says it supports Pakistan&#8217;s &#8216;right to defend itself&#8217; against Afghan Taliban<\/p>\n<p>Guterres stressed that &#8220;migrants are not criminals. They are victims,&#8221; adding that &#8220;the real criminals are ruthless smuggling and trafficking networks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They profit from despair, exploit the absence of safe alternatives, and thrive when cooperation fails,&#8221; he said, emphasising that the networks &#8220;must be pursued, prosecuted and brought to justice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting the growing restrictions on legal migration channels, he said, &#8220;Safe and regular pathways are becoming ever more restrictive, especially for families and low-wage workers who face the steepest barriers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When pathways are blocked, migrants do not disappear,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres said that &#8220;the crisis is the failure to manage it together,&#8221; and outlined two priorities. &#8220;First, expanding and simplifying clear pathways of regular migration.<\/p>\n<p>Second, ensuring development cooperation that meaningfully invests in education, skills, and decent job creation in countries of origin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us choose cooperation over chaos, and dignity over discrimination,&#8221; he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged countries on Friday to reject fear-driven narratives on migration, stressing that &#8220;migration is not a crisis&#8221; and calling for stronger international cooperation to manage human mobility. &#8220;Human mobility is profoundly shaping our world,&#8221; Guterres said during an address to the General Assembly on his report on the Global Compact for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}