Geneva/Kabul, 6 May 2025 – Amid a sharp increase in the number of Afghan nationals returning from Pakistan – including 109,891 between 3 April and 3 May – the International Organization for Migration ...

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Port Sudan, 29 October – Good morning, I am glad to be able to speak with you this morning live from Port Sudan. I arrived here yesterday on a four-day visit, into a deteriorating security situation ...

Statement delivered by IOM Director General Amy Pope at the United Nations Media Briefing in Geneva I have just returned from Damascus, where the impact of nearly 14 years of conflict is evident ...

Berlin – The International Organization for Migration´s (IOM) Missing Migrants Project has documented at least 5,684 deaths on migration routes to and within Europe since the beginning of 2021, with ...

Statement by UN Migration Director General William Lacy Swing on World Food Day, 16 October 2017 For the first time in history, more people live in cities than rural areas. Every year millions of ...

Geneva/ Damascus, 26 May 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed the recent decisions by the European Union and the United States to lift a significant portion of ...

Mutare – The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), through the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, is developing its National Migration Policy with support from the International Organization for ...

Madrid – As more migrants arrive in the Canary Islands, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has provided shelter, protection services, medical, legal and other types of assistance to ...

IOM Director General Amy Pope's Keynote Address at the Second Session of the International Dialogue on Migration 2024 Geneva – Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it is a real pleasure to be here ...

The XXI Century is the century of human mobility and migration. We can no longer think about our economies, societies or cultures without thinking about human mobility. According to all the available ...

Geneva – On Monday (01/10), António Vitorino of Portugal became the latest Director General of IOM, the United Nations Migration Agency.