UN Migration Agency Helps Nearly 100,000 Migrants Return and Reintegrate in 2016
Today (11 July), IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reported that they helped 98,403 migrants return home voluntarily in 2016. This assistance was provided through the IOM Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration (AVRR) programmes and highlighted in their latest report, Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration 2016 Key Highlights. Este documento o sitio Internet está disponible únicamente en inglés. Leer más
UN Migration Agency, Global Fund Supports Iraqi Ministry of Health to Combat TB
Iraq has one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) rates in the region, with more than 15,000 individuals infected annually, according to statistics from Iraq's Ministry of Health. In response, IOM, the UN Migration Agency, in Iraq is providing urgent multi-stage medical support to TB patients across the country. Este documento o sitio Internet está disponible únicamente en inglés. Leer más
Mediterranean Update
Missing Migrants Project is a database sharing key data on deceased and missing migrants along migratory routes worldwide. This infographic focuses on migrant arrivals and fatalities in the Mediterranean region. #MissingMigrants
Internally Displaced, Returnees from Abroad Soar to Over 2.4 Million in Nine Afghan Provinces: IOM Survey
One in six people is either a returnee or an internally displaced person (IDP) in the nine Afghan provinces of Baghlan, Balkh, Kabul, Kunar, Kunduz, Laghman, Nangarhar, Paktia, and Takhar, according to the second round of IOM’s Afghan Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) published today (7/7). Este documento o sitio Internet está disponible únicamente en inglés. Leer mas
Festival Internacional de Cine sobre Migración 2017: Convocatoria de participación
La OIM en calidad de Organismo de las Naciones Unidas para la Migración invita a cineastas profesionales y emergentes a presentar sus realizaciones cinematográficas relacionadas con los “cambios en la percepción de los migrantes y sus experiencias” en el Segundo Festival Internacional de Cine sobre Migración, un evento anual que este año se celebrará entre el 5 y el 18 de diciembre. Leer mas
El mundo en movimiento
Hace 65 años, la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) surgió de las cenizas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En Europa, un continente devastado por la guerra, ningún gobierno por sí solo podía ayudar a los supervivientes, quienes solo deseaban una oportunidad para reanudar sus vidas en libertad y con dignidad. En un principio, la OIM fue fundada para reasentar a refugiados durante la postguerra. Leer más
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161 Guinean Migrants Arrive from Libya in Conakry
On June 13, a UN Migration Agency (IOM) flight from Libya landed in Conakry. 161 stranded migrants from Guinea received return assistance who were living in very difficult conditions in Libya.
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Low-cost, Locally Available Shelters in Pakistan
Flooding in 2010 affected 18 million people in Pakistan. With declining donor funds and flooding again in 2011 and 2012, the humanitarian community required low-cost solutions that could be scaled up to meet both the immediate and the transitional needs of large populations in differing geographical areas.
Reducing Gender Based Violence Risks through Better Shelter Programme Design
Good shelter programming must include mitigation measures throughout the project cycle in order to reduce Gender-Based Violence (GBV) risks.
Towards Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The International Tribunal on the Conflict in the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) comes to an end on 31 December 2017. Its 24-year history and legacy will be discussed in Sarajevo during the ICTY Legacy Dialogues Conference opening on June 19.
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If you walk around any city in West Africa, you will see children alone, without parents. Some are working, some are begging, some want to study and some are just lost.
“My mother was her own Ellis Island,” Luis Torres says about his mother, a Salvadoran immigrant, who fled the civil war and found refuge in California in the 1980s.
These trends point more than ever to the need for better international migration governance and cooperation: