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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 14

    Messi ✅ Cristiano ✅ Neymar ✅ Salah ✅ Pogba ✅ Lukaku ✅ Kanté ✅ Heung-min ✅ Mane ✅ Iwobi ✅ Navas ✅ Griezmann ✅ Suarez ✅ Hazard ✅ Almost half of international ⚽️ stars are migrants. Many will join their national teams at . Good luck to all!

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  2. 3 hours ago

    A new ✨ powder is helping our teams in Somalia to fight lack of drinkable water.

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  3. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    🎤 Three of our young talents from IOM’s transit centre for in Niamey took the stage last night during the finale of the music competition "Tremplin de jeunes talents au Niger" with the theme irregular migration! 👇

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  4. 4 hours ago

    Mediterranean Sea. Detention centers. Asylum centers. Towns. Migrants have been dying while trying to get into Europe for more than 20 years.

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  5. 10 hours ago

    45seconds. The amount it takes to make dirty water safe & drinkable.

    3 replies . 23 retweets 33 likes
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  6. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    "UN staff know nothing of the suffering of migrants and refugees". Right? Wrong. Very much wrong. Here's my story as a Comms, formerly internally displaced inside due to conflict.

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  7. 10 hours ago

    To be clear: There is no migration crisis in 2018. It is not a migration emergency. It is a political emergency.

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  8. 10 hours ago

    16.2 million people were newly displaced in 2017. 44,400 each day. 1 every 2 seconds. Via

    3 replies . 18 retweets 28 likes
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  9. 11 hours ago

    40,944 & arrived by sea to Europe in 2018. 960 dead/missing. Learn more ➡️

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  10. 24 hours ago

    Last year, nearly 100,000 migrants entered , the world's worst humanitarian crisis. That's 2,000 migrants every week. 300 every day. Read more:

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  11. Jun 21

    A new ✨ powder is helping our teams in to fight lack of drinkable water.

    2 replies . 17 retweets 26 likes
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  12. Jun 21

    If you read one article today, make it this one.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    Our shares her story of being 19 and becoming internally displaced: "Ever the optimist, my father, who was a dentist, had sealed his clinic with a sign indicating “will be back in a week”. Those three days turned into thirty-three."

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  14. Retweeted
    Jun 21

    People continue to seriously overestimate the number of migrants living in their country

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  15. Jun 21

    . is bringing Syrian + Turkish people together through community events during . Here's how:

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  16. Jun 21

    🇵🇭 Philippines + 🏙️ Manila + 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 100 families + 🌍 1 evacuation = the perfect simulation

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  17. Jun 21

    At least 2.5 million migrants were smuggled worldwide in 2016, says ’s first global study on :

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  18. Jun 21

    Mediterranean Sea. Detention centers. Asylum centers. Towns. Migrants have been dying while trying to get into Europe for more than 20 years.

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    Jun 20

    “For three centuries Europe populated the world … and today, because of the demographics and the low birth rate, it has become a continent of destination: this is a psychological adjustment that has not been made.” via

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  20. Jun 21

    "The stories we hear from them are the same; they know someone who has gone before and made it." -

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  21. Jun 20

    2.9 million more refugees fled their home countries between 2016 and 2017. That's the biggest increase UNHCR has seen in a single year. Ever.

    3 replies . 39 retweets 34 likes
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