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Brasília, 24 June 2025 – In the wake of heavy rains that have battered Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul since mid-June, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is supporting ...
Geneva, 26 June 2025 – As the International Organization for Migration (IOM) presents its 2024 Annual Report to the Standing Committee on Programmes and Finance (SCPF), the Organization has ...
Geneva/Juba, 20 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply alarmed by the suspension of its life-saving transport services for thousands of displaced people in South ...
Istanbul, Türkiye, 21 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have signed a groundbreaking three-year Plan of Action that will ...
Geneva/Port-au-Prince, 11 June 2025 – Nearly 1.3 million people are now internally displaced in Haiti, a 24 percent increase since December 2024, according to a recently published Displacement ...
Geneva/Washington, D.C., 17 June 2025 – USA for IOM, the U.S. nonprofit partner of the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM), today announced the appointment of Joanna Wasmuth ...
Cairo/Tripoli, 17 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply saddened by two confirmed shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in recent days, with at least 60 people feared ...
Days of intense monsoon rains and high winds have triggered landslides, floods, and widespread damage across the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, impacting nearly 16,000 people ...
In adopting the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, the Member States of the United Nations recognized the need for a comprehensive approach to human mobility and strengthened cooperation ...
Berlin/ Geneva, 21 March 2025 - At least 8,938 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2024, making it the deadliest year on record, according to new data collected by the International ...
IOM promotes staff welfare by offering a comprehensive range of services. These include confidential psychosocial support to staff and their dependents worldwide, as well as webinars and seminars on ...
Excellencies, members of our Council, honoured guests, IOM colleagues and friends. Today is the fifty-seventh day of my tenure as IOM’s Director General and my first Council meeting as the Director ...