As conflict persists across much of Sudan, pockets of relative safety have emerged and to date over a million internally ...

Geneva/ Addis Ababa, 26 March – Conflict and violence remain the main drivers of displacement and movements in sub-Saharan Africa in 2022, exacerbated by increasing climate shocks and hazards, ...

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

Michele Klein Solomon is Director of the Migration Policy and Research Department at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), where she has been instrumental in building the Organization’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 ...

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/ 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 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 – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 150,982 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 1 November, with about 75 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...