Georgetown, Guyana - The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) hosted a virtual technical meeting on Thursday, 3 July 2025 to bring together representatives from CARICOM Member States, regional institutions ...

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 ...

IOM’s 2024 Annual Report highlights global efforts to save lives, drive solutions to displacement, and strengthen pathways for regular 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geneva / New York – Airbnb.org and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have announced today their partnership to connect people fleeing from Ukraine to free, short-term housing in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kabul – Over the last year, more than one million Afghan migrants have returned or been deported to Afghanistan from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran as COVID-19 continues to deprive many of employment ...

Cox’s Bazar – Bangladeshis are rallying to apply for new jobs and learn new skills as part of vital humanitarian efforts to help Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar.