Amy Pope has always championed humane and orderly migration as an opportunity for societies, not a problem. Now, as the first female Director-General of the , she is campaigning for a fundamental shift in attitudes towards newcomers.
“You just give somebody a little space. Everybody has purpose. Everybody has dreams, everybody wants to be seen,” she says.
Human migration is likely to rise over the coming decades, with that hundreds of millions of people could be displaced due to climate change alone.
In this episode of the UN podcast Awake at Night,?Pope?reflects on how better to prepare communities and why celebrating the contributions of migrants is a win-win for societies around the world.
“The evidence is pretty overwhelming that it doesn't even take very long for migration to actually pay out pretty significantly for the communities who host the migrants, and definitely for the communities that migrants are coming from,” Pope notes.
Listen to her interview by tuning in on your or visit the Awake at Night website.
About Awake at Night:
Hosted by Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, the podcast Awake at Night?is an in-depth interview series focusing on remarkable United Nations staff members who dedicate their career to helping people in parts of the world where they have the hardest lives – from war zones and displacement camps to areas hit by disasters and the devastation of climate change.
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