Migration

Nigerian migrants held in Libya were rescued after releasing a video from their cell that went viral on social media and caught the attention of authorities. A group of migrants held inside a detention centre in...

President Trump recommended building a wall across the Sahara to solve Europe’s migrant crisis, Spain’s foreign minister says. Josep Borrell, also a former President of the European Parliament, disagreed with the strategy. The comments came during...

The Australian government said it is considering options including targeted sanctions on Myanmar in response to the UN Fact-Finding Mission’s report regarding last year’s atrocities against Rohingya people in Rakhine state. “The Australian Government condemns in...

Ongoing international dialogues and actions to support the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals sheltered in Bangladesh need to be stronger to ensure a safe and meaningful future for the more than 500,000 children from this community. The...

Estonian Foreign Minister Sven Mikser today called for increasing political pressure on the Myanmar government to back their nationals from Bangladesh as he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina here. “The repatriation of...

The UN Migration Agency (IOM) has co-organized a second regional forum bringing together non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to discuss cross-border cooperation to combat human trafficking in Central and South Asia....

UK aid will protect thousands of vulnerable men, women and children in Nigeria from modern slavery and unsafe migration through innovative prevention work such as public information campaigns, awareness raising at schools and universities, and new...

At the request of the Government of Chile, IOM, the UN Migration Agency has opened the first Visa Service Centre for Chile (CAVC) in Haiti, to help Haitian migrants find legal pathways to the South American...

US President Donald Trump’s swingeing cuts to aid for Palestinians will advance Israel ’s interests but risk compromising a US-led peace push and raise tensions in the Middle East, analysts and diplomats said Saturday. The US...

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is today urging the Government of Greece to address the situation in Aegean Sea Reception and Identification Centres (RICs), commonly known as ‘hotspots’. Centres are severely overcrowded. This means that thousands...