IOM Director General's Message on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia, and Transphobia 2024
DG's Statements and Speeches 16 May 2024
DG's Statements and Speeches 16 May 2024
DG's Statements and Speeches 15 Apr 2024 Geneva/Paris,15 April – A year ago, war came to Khadim, a mother of seven children in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, and she fled 200 kilometers southeast to Medani. And then war came to Khadim in a literal …
Excellencies, members of our Council, honoured guests, IOM colleagues and friends. Today is the fifty-seventh day of my tenure as IOM’s Director General and my first Council meeting as the Director General. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the …
WHO WE ARE The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is part of the United Nations System as the leading inter-governmental organization promoting since 1951 humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all, with 175 member states and a …
DG's Statements and Speeches 18 Sep 2023 The 2023 SDG Summit is a moment of truth and reckoning. Major global transformations – from climate change to digitalization – risk leaving billions of people behind. Human mobility can be part of the solution. …
Geneva/N’Djamena – As many as 20,000 people – among them Chadians, Sudanese, and foreign nationals – fleeing the violence in Sudan have arrived so far in neighbouring Chad; a country that shares a 1400km-long border with Sudan. “The majority of those …
Geneva/Lilongwe/Maputo – Communities in Mozambique and Malawi devastated by tropical cyclone Freddy continue to struggle in the face of an ongoing cholera outbreak due to the persistently high water levels and the destruction of homes, infrastructure, and …
Geneva / Juba - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has activated its Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) at multiple Points of Entry (PoE) in countries neighbouring Sudan to provide a clearer picture of the needs of thousands of people …
Geneva - It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the death of a dedicated IOM Sudan staff member this morning after the vehicle he was traveling in with his family south of El Obeid was caught in a crossfire between two warring parties. I am deeply …
DG's Statements and Speeches 21 Apr 2023 Geneva – It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the death of a dedicated IOM Sudan staff member this morning after the vehicle he was traveling in with his family south of El Obeid was caught in a crossfire …
Dili — The International Organization for Migration (IOM), in partnership with the Government of Timor-Leste (GoTL), today (18/04) launched the Migration Profile in Timor-Leste, a country-owned tool comprising data on migration to support the GoTL develop …
Dili, Thursday, 20th April 2023 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have signed an agreement to jointly support Government and the people of Timor-Leste in preventing and responding to …
The initiative was at the center of a discussion on April 6 in Yaoundé between the NDDRC, IOM and UN Women. The interventions of the project "Enhancing Women’s Meaningful Involvement in DDR Policy Design and Implementation in Cameroon Based on the …
Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the G5 Sahel yesterday signed an agreement to strengthen regional and intra-state cooperation across the spectrum of human mobility as an accelerator to building resilience, development and …
Yaoundé – On 6 April 2023, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) accompanied the Government of Cameroon in the reception of 63 Cameroonians from Tunisia. This operation follows an instruction of the Cameroon Head of State on the voluntary …
Geneva/Toronto – The arrival of a charter flight in Toronto yesterday (12/04) marks the successful resettlement to Canada of more than 30,000 Afghan refugees with the assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). IOM has worked closely …
Geneva/Berlin – The International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Missing Migrants Project documented 441 migrant deaths in the Central Mediterranean in the first quarter of 2023, the highest on record since 2017. The increasing loss of life on the …
Ankara – Communities in Türkiye continue to deal with the aftermath of February’s devastating earthquakes. Despite the Government of Türkiye declaring six additional provinces as disaster areas in the past week, some key sectors of the emergency and …
DG's Statements and Speeches 06 Apr 2023 Geneva / Kabul - The International Organization for Migration strongly condemns the prohibition against Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan by the country’s de facto authorities. Over …
Geneva / Kabul – The International Organization for Migration strongly condemns the prohibition against Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan by the country’s de facto authorities. Over the last year, the women and girls of …