Greece - This week IOM Greece recorded the highest migration inflows since the beginning of 2015, despite deteriorating weather conditions.

Freetown – With a 60 percent rate of youth unemployment, Sierra Leone suffers among West Africa’s highest levels of joblessness. One result: youth migrate, often irregularly. To address this, the ...

Colombo – USAID and IOM this week handed over new transitional homes to 120 families affected by the May 2017 floods and landslides in Rathnapura, Sri Lanka.

Geneva – Information plays an essential role in a migrant’s decision-making process. The proliferation of differing and sometimes conflicting information makes it difficult for migrants to assess its ...

Somalia - IOM, in partnership with the Rural Education and Agriculture Development Organization (READO), a local NGO, is introducing a drought resistant variant of sweet potatoes which will help ...

Sana’a, Yemen – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is supporting the island of Socotra after it was devastated by Cyclone Mekunu on 23 May. Working with inter-cluster partners and local authorities on the ...

International Migrants Day (IMD) is observed on 18 December, reaffirming the need for safer, more inclusive, and fairer migration systems in a rapidly changing world. Despite its proven benefits, ...

World Environment Day, marked on 5 June, is a call to protect our environment and take urgent action to #BeatPlasticPollution. Plastic, from production to waste, contributes to climate crisis and ...

Over the past decades, the engagement of diasporas in development issues such as poverty reduction or economic growth, humanitarian response or post-crisis recovery has generated an increasing ...

Greece - IOM confirmed yesterday (21/12) that over a million irregular migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, mostly from Syria, Africa and South Asia. Through the weekend, IOM’s ...

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 ...

Vientiane – On 1 September 2021, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic signed a Cooperation Agreement at the Ministry of Foreign ...