The United Nations supports Azerbaijan's development by creating an enabling environment for improving good governance, reducing poverty, ensuring respect for human rights and gender equality, meeting people's basic health and education needs.
On this United Nations Day and every day throughout the year, the United Nations is at work -- for the planet, for jobs, for “we the peoples”. We deliver more humanitarian aid than anyone – and to the toughest places. We vaccinate 40 per cent of the world’s children. We feed more than 100 million people and are helping more than 30 million refugees, most of them women and children fleeing war and persecution. We are deploying more peacekeepers than ever -- more than 115,000. In the last year alone, we provided electoral assistance to almost 50 countries. And the entire UN system has mobilized to face global economic turmoil and the social unrest it threatens.
Baku, 7 October 2009 - We live in a highly mobile world, where migration is an important dimension of human development. Nearly one billion – or one out of seven – people are migrants.
“Migration can enhance human development for the people who move, for destination communities and for those who remain at home”, said UNDP resident Representative Bruno Pouezat in his opening remarks at the launch of “The 2009 Human Development Reportentitled “Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development” at the premises of State Migration Service today.
