Migration

News Hour: At the request of the Government of Mali, IOM conducted a workshop in Bamako last week (11-15 July) to strengthen government and humanitarian actors’ capacity in displacement management in emergency situations. The workshop, which...

News Hour: UK Home Secretary and Archbishop of Canterbury launch new scheme to encourage community groups to sponsor a refugee family. The full community sponsorship scheme will enable community groups including charities, faith groups, churches and...

News Hour: IOM organized a voluntary repatriation charter flight from Libya to Guinea for 173 stranded Guinean migrants. The operation, in close cooperation with Guinea’s Embassy in Libya and the Libyan Department for Combating Illegal Migration...

News Hour: IOM evacuation operations out of Yemen resumed this week with the voluntary return of 150 Ethiopian vulnerable migrants from Hodeidah, western Yemen, back to Ethiopia via Obock port, Djibouti. The group, which was comprised...

News Hour: IOM and its partners the Colombian Consulate in Buenos Aires, the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Colombia Nos Une programme, and the National University of Tres de Febrero’s Institute of Migration Policies and Asylum...

News Hour: IOM today announced that it will establish a Global Migration Data Portal with financial backing from Germany. The portal will be housed at IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in Berlin and will...

News Hour: This week IOM hosted a three-day policymaker training workshop on migration, environment and climate change in Quatre Bornes, Mauritius. The European Union-funded workshop – organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development,...

News Hour: Students at the National Police Academy of Costa Rica are taking an IOM-designed course to enable them to better assist and protect migrants in vulnerable situations. Graduates of this training, which finishes tomorrow (13/07),...

News Hour: Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Solve program announced its preliminary schedule of activities for fall 2016 and spring 2017. Addressing the world’s most pressing issues, second year of program will focus on in-person gatherings,...

News Hour: The number of migrants opting for voluntary departure from the Netherlands to their countries of origin with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is growing. Under the IOM Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR)...