Yemen: IOM Seeks Funding to Assist 5 Million People as Situation in Ma’rib Deteriorates
As the conflict in Yemen enters its seventh year, the crisis remains the largest in the world and continues to put millions of lives at risk. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched today an appeal to assist over five million people affected by the Yemen crisis in conjunction with the Yemen Virtual High-Level Pledging Conference. Read more
IOM, Brazil Launch National Survey on Indigenous People from Venezuela
At least 5,000 indigenous people born in Venezuela have arrived in Brazil since 2016, crossing the two countries’ borders as part of the mass movement of Venezuelan refugees and migrants sweeping the region. These people, approximately 65 per cent of whom are from the Warao ethnic group, have specific cultural traditions which must be taken into account. Read more.
Yemen: Greater Aid Presence Urgently Needed in Ma'rib as Displacement Increases
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is watching with growing alarm as increasing numbers of people are displaced in Yemen, adding to worrisome food security concerns. Hostilities in Yemen’s Ma'rib governorate have led to the displacement of at least 9,000 people in recent weeks, bringing the total number of displacements in that part of the country to more than 117,000. Read more
IOM Launches Livelihoods Project for Returning Migrants and Host Communities in Cox’s Bazar
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Bangladesh harder than any tropical cyclone. Instead of uprooting trees and hurling powerful tides from an angry sea, what’s been uprooted are entire livelihoods—as well as the families trying to survive in one of the world’s most crowded countries. Read more
UN agencies begin registering people affected by the MPP program in Matamoros
UN agencies today will begin to prepare individuals and families in the informal camp in Matamoros, Mexico for entry to the United States in line with the U.S. plan to terminate a policy known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) that forced asylum-seekers to wait for their U.S. immigration hearings in Mexico. Read more
IOM Appeals for Lifesaving Assistance to over half a million displaced and vulnerable migrants in Niger
Niger, one of the Sahel’ region’s busiest countries of transit migration countries for migrants, faces multiple emergencies. The COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing security threats and generations of deeply embedded poverty all have contributed to a growing humanitarian crisis, with over half a million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and their host communities in need of essential services. Read more
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