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 ...

Over the past decades, the engagement of diasporas in development issues such as poverty reduction or economic growth, humanitarian response or post-crisis recovery has generated an increasing ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) relies on voluntary contributions to carry out its global activities. In recent years, the demand for IOM support has increased exponentially in ...

World Environment Day, marked on 5 June, is a call to protect our environment and take urgent action to #BeatPlasticPollution. Plastic, from production to waste, contributes to climate crisis and ...

International Migrants Day (IMD) is observed on 18 December, reaffirming the need for safer, more inclusive, and fairer migration systems in a rapidly changing world. Despite its proven benefits, ...

Tripoli/Damascus, 8 October 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday facilitated the voluntary return of 152 Syrians in vulnerable situations from Libya to Damascus, ...

IOM proudly presents the COP29 Youth Delegates on Climate Migration. As COP29 unfolds in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024, twenty-four young agents of change are joining the IOM ...

Berlin – The International Organization for Migration´s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project has documented at least 5,684 deaths on migration routes to and within Europe since the beginning of 2021, with ...

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 ...

Germany - IOM’s Global Migration Trends Factsheet 2015 presents a snapshot of the migration trends worldwide for the year 2015, based on migration statistics from a variety of sources. In 2015, the ...

In its role as Coordinator of the UN Network on Migration, IOM is well-placed to guide the UN system in supporting governments to strengthen international migration governance capacities, in ...

I have always thought about the contradictions of life, how pain and comfort live side by side. Imagine this paradox for a moment. It might help you see what others endure or help you treasure what ...