Migration

News Hour: Fighting between armed groups in South Sudan continues to increase displacement, including in areas that had been relatively stable since the crisis starts. Current population movements are fluid in several areas, including Central Equatoria,...

News Hour: IOM last month participated in JUVENTOUR 2016, one of the most important gatherings of Central American youth, which provided a platform to promote migrant children and adolescents’ rights and to warn about the risks...

News Hour: IOM helped two groups of asylum seekers to leave Greece for Finland this week under the European Union (EU)’s ongoing relocation programme. Of the 82 people relocated, 11 were unaccompanied children. 42 people were...

News Hour: With an increasing number of migrant children reported missing in Europe, questions arise about the availability, coverage and reliability of data on children migrating to and through the European Union. IOM’s Berlin-based Global Migration...

News Hour: IOM has facilitated the return home of 53 unaccompanied Ethiopian child migrants detained in Malawi when trying to reach South Africa. The return of the migrants was facilitated by IOM, in partnership with the...

News Hour: Mohamed al-Okla and his wife Amal fled Syria’s civil war with their five children in order to resettle in Italy. Hoping for a fresh start away from the horrors of war, the family has found...

News Hour: Around 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years, reports BSS. Dramatic images of one operation...

News Hour: Over 90,000 Iraqis have been displaced in the Mosul Corridor as military operations continue in preparedness for the liberation of Mosul. This includes over 82,600 IDPs who have been displaced from Salah al-Din (Baiji...

News Hour: A group of 160 asylum seekers left Greece recently and arrived safely in France with IOM’s support under the European Union’s Relocation Programme. The group comprised 128 Syrians, 30 Iraqis, and two stateless individuals....

News Hour: Almost 20,000 people who have fled from war-torn Yemen will receive protection and emergency assistance through a USD 10 million project funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid...