Migration
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8,000 people displaced by recent violence in Wau, South Sudan
Apr 15, 2017News Hour: A recent upsurge in violence beginning 10 April has displaced an estimated 8,000 people in South Sudan’s Wau town. International Organization for Migration (IOM) teams and relief agencies are providing assistance to new arrivals... -
New migration data analysis unit Launched in Egypt
Apr 13, 2017News Hour: On 6 April, Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) and IOM launched a new Migration Data Analysis Unit. The Migration Data Analysis Unit aims to fill in existing information gaps by... -
10,000 displaced people, returnees reached with life-saving aid
Apr 13, 2017News Hour: On 2 April, IOM reached approximately 10,000 people with lifesaving aid in Aleppo, Syria. In cooperation with partners, IOM teams deployed in the Al-Ansari, Al-Kallaseh and Al-Mohandiseen neighbourhoods of Aleppo distributed over 7,410 core... -
170 stranded migrants returns to Gambia from Libya
Apr 7, 2017News Hour: IOM helped 170 stranded Gambian migrants – 158 men and 12 women – return home to Gambia from Libya. There were also 11 children and two infants among the 170 migrants, including six unaccompanied... -
West Africa trains journalists on “Good Media Practices and Migration”
Apr 4, 2017News Hour: The last of a series of trainings for journalists on migration coverage was carried out by the IOM country office in Burkina Faso. The series of trainings were held in four countries – Senegal,... -
Canada supports IOM’s peace and stability initiatives in Northern Lebanon
Apr 2, 2017News Hour: IOM has received CAD 2.6 million from the Government of Canada, through its Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Development (DFATD), to contribute towards the promotion of peace and stability in northern Lebanon.... -
In rural El Salvador, unaccompanied migrant children live in unhealthy conditions
Apr 1, 2017News Hour: IOM El Salvador this week released its Human Mobility Household Survey on Unaccompanied Migrant Childhood and Returned Children. The data for the study was collected through the Human Mobility Household Survey in El Salvador,... -
UNICEF hails new Italian law to protect unaccompanied refugee and migrant children as model for Europe
Mar 29, 2017News Hour: UNICEF welcomes the Italian Parliament for passing a historic law to boost support and protection for the record number of foreign unaccompanied and separated children who arrived in Italy – nearly 26,000 in 2016. ... -
Chilean Mayors’ US Study Visit Focuses on Migrants’ Social Inclusion
Mar 27, 2017News Hour: This week, three Chilean mayors are in the United States as part of the State Department’s International Visiting Leaders Program (IVLP), during which they will exchange best practices for migrants’ social inclusion. IVLP’s objective... -
Migration health assessment center opens at Egypt
Mar 21, 2017News Hour: IOM Egypt opened its migration health assessment centre (MHAC) on March 16th to provide full health assessments to refugees and migrants migrating from Egypt. The centre provides services to self-paying Egyptian migrants and refugees...
