Geneva/Cairo/Port Sudan – Six months into the conflict, Sudan has become the largest internal displacement crisis in the world with over 7.1 million people displaced within the country, 4.5 million of whom have been displaced since violence erupted in mid-April, according to the latest figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Approximately three million are
Geneva – Climate mobility is a reality today; heat waves, wildfires, droughts, floods and other disasters are affecting the lives of tens of millions of people. As the impacts of climate change intensify and overlap with other global crises, from pandemics and conflict to economic downturns and food insecurity, the world finds itself under unprecedented
Geneva/Port-au-Prince – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Government of Haiti are appealing for USD 21 million to ensure better protection and shelter conditions for tens of thousands of people newly displaced by gang violence in the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince since mid-August. Successive outbreaks of violence in Carrefour-Feuilles and Savanes Pistaches neighbourhoods in
Geneva/Derna – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is calling for an immediate scale up of donor funding to meet the Organization’s estimated needs of USD 22 million to urgently accelerate early recovery efforts in the areas leveled by Storm Daniel four weeks ago. Roughly 30 per cent of the required funding has been secured. “There
Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have today published the first global technical guidance for administrative data on trafficking in persons. An acute lack of quality evidence and research for the development of national policies and programmes to combat human trafficking is a
Geneva – When a boat crammed with over 500 women, men, and children sank off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa ten years ago, the world said “never again.” Today, on the tenth anniversary of that shipwreck, we have not lived up to that commitment; 2023 has recorded the deadliest first quarter since
Geneva – Amy E. Pope of the United States of America has begun her five-year term as the eleventh Director General (DG) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The first woman to become Director General in IOM’s 72-year history, DG Pope was elected on 15 May 2023 during the Sixth Special Session of the
Geneva/San José – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is appealing for governments in Central America and Mexico to collaborate to address the immediate humanitarian needs of people on the move as unprecedented numbers of vulnerable migrants transit through the region, while also working on long-term solutions to tackle the drivers of migration. "The situation underscores
New York / Geneva - The International Organization for Migration will launch its flagship report “Leveraging Human Mobility to Rescue the 2030 Agenda” tomorrow calling for bold commitments and transformative actions on human mobility. “As the world faces multiple crises, the SDG Summit is a moment of truth and reckoning for the international community,” IOM Director
Abidjan – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) launched an Integrated Border Stability Mechanism (IBSM) aimed at strengthening cooperative border governance and security in areas strategically relevant for regional stability. While instability has been a recurring theme in