Lives Under Siege in the Central African Republic
People in the Central African Republic’s (CAR) capital of Bangui do not get too attached to things.
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UN Migration Agency: With Mosul Retaken, Donor Support Now Paramount for Thousands of IDPs
With the battle for West Mosul all but over last week, evidence of a humanitarian calamity that is now just beginning to unravel paints the picture of a crisis that may go well beyond previous expectations, reports IOM Iraq’s Hala Jaber. Read more
Mediterranean Update
The Missing Migrants Project is a database that provides information on deceased and missing migrants along the migratory routes of the world. This infographic deals in particular with the arrival and death of migrants in the Mediterranean region. #MissingMigrants. Missing Migrants Project | Migration Flows - Europe
Contributions of Migrants, Diasporas to Sustainable Development Main Themes at 4th Global Compact for Migration Consultation
Member State representatives, UN agencies, civil society, migrants and diaspora leaders are convening at UN Headquarters 24-25 July for the fourth thematic consultation of the Member State-led process to develop a Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM). Read more
UN Migration Agency, EU Partner to Provide Returning Nigerian Migrants with Reintegration Assistance
As of late July onwards, nearly 4,000 Nigerian migrants, who become stranded in European or African countries and wish to return home, will receive reintegration assistance from IOM, the UN Migration Agency. Read more
2017 Global Migration Film Festival: Call for Entries
The UN Migration Agency (IOM) is inviting professional and emerging filmmakers to submit perception-changing films about the migrant experience for the second annual Global Migration Film Festival (5–18 December). Read more
A World on the Move
IOM rose from the ashes of World War Two 65 years ago. In the battle-scarred continent of Europe, no government alone could help survivors who wanted no more than an opportunity to resume their lives in freedom and with dignity. The first incarnation of IOM was created to resettle refugees during this post-war period.
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136 Guineans Arrive at Conakry from Libya
IOM assists 136 Guinean migrants, including seven unaccompanied children, three women and one infant return home through a chartered a plane from Libya to Conakry-Gbessia International Airport.
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2017 IDM Dedicated to the Process of Elaboration of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
In the modalities for the intergovernmental negotia-tions of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), Member States called on IOM to make use of the IDM to contribute to the preparatory process of the global compact.
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.
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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: