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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – Amy E. Pope of the United States of America has begun her five-year term as the eleventh Director General (DG) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The first woman to become ...

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

International remittances surged by 650 per cent, from USD 128 billion to USD 831 billion between 2000 and 2022. Migrant remittances surpass foreign direct investment in boosting the GDP of developing ...

Nairobi – The Horn of Africa is in the grip of the worst drought in decades – parching landscapes, heightening food insecurity and causing increasingly widespread displacement. An urgent and efficient ...

Cox’s Bazar – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is appealing for USD 128 million in support of 1.4 million refugees and host community members in need in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar ...