Migration

News Hour: 15 Greek schools welcomed for the first time refugee and migrant children from nearby camps. IOM Greece provided transport and equipped the children with school kits, including notebooks, pens, pencils and other materials. In...

News Hour: IOM assisted 154 stranded Nigerian migrants, including 98 women, one infant and three children, to return home to Nigeria from Libya. Of the group, 153 had spent several months in the Al Fallah and...

News Hour: IOM, with the Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development of the Republic of Seychelles, supported a two-day training workshop on labour migration, and a half-day roundtable on migration management in the Seychelles’ capital...

News Hour: Twenty-eight Europe-bound migrants were found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya on Tuesday, including at least 22 in an overloaded wooden boat, an AFP photographer and the Italian coastguard said. The...

News Hour: On 26-27 September 2016, the IOM Mission in Armenia conducted a two-day interactive workshop on Information Management in Cases of Crisis with a Migration Dimension. The workshop focused on the identification of gaps on...

News Hour: The 3rd Global Mayoral Forum: “Governing Locally: City Leadership at the Front and Center in Implementing Migration Policy – Promoting Development and Securing Protection” is taking place in Quezon City in the Philippines. The...

News Hour: IOM will carry out activities throughout the month of October to promote awareness of breast cancer among female migrants temporarily detained in Thailand. The initiative is part of IOM’s efforts to commemorate Breast Cancer...

News Hour: At a National Conference on Migration in Nepal this week, IOM presented findings from its recently concluded study on the socio-economic and financial profile of migrants to India. “Unfortunately, the Nepal – India migration...

News Hour: Students, government officials, non-governmental organizations and journalists are some of the nearly 7,000 people that in the last three years have participated in IOM’s training and awareness programmes, addressing prevention of human trafficking in...

News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing took part in a historic ceremony in Cartagena marking the formal signing of a peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia...