Cox’s Bazar Health Facilities Struggle to Cope as New Arrivals Pass 415,000: IOM Scales Up Mobile Teams, Support to Government Clinics
IOM, the UN Migration Agency is working with Government and aid agency partners to rapidly ramp up fixed and mobile health services in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district to help some 415,000 people who have fled violence in Myanmar’s North Rakhine State over the past three weeks. Read more
UN Migration Agency Appeals for USD 4.95 Million to Support Communities in Wake of Irma, Jose Devastation
In early September, two Category Five hurricanes, Irma and Jose, laid a path of destruction across the Leeward Islands, the eastern Caribbean region, the sub-Bahamian region, Cuba and the United States. 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
The Makings of a Home
More than 250,000 Nigeriens, as well as many more Nigerians, live in 140 sites throughout Diffa – a region in the extreme southeast of the country, near the Nigerian border.
A Deadly Journey: Desert, Sea, Detention...On the Road to Europe
More than 2,300 migrants have died at sea on that same Central Mediterranean route in 2017. One in every 49 migrants died on that route last year, according to IOM, the UN Migration Agency. Since 2014, more deaths have been recorded there than on any other migration route in the world. 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.
Ending Modern Slavery
Read Ending Modern Slavery By William Lacy Swing, Director General of the United Nations migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Alliance 8.7 - Read Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage
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i am a migrant
i am a migrant is a campaign and platform. We create a place for the personal stories of migrants. We want to challenge the anti-migrant...
"To my twenty year old younger self, I say thank you as the decision to migrate has enriched my life."
"I don’t want my children to see what I saw; I will work hard so that they have a better life than I had."
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MIGRATION VIDEO
A Story of a Displaced Family in Talafar
As the Iraqi forces reclaimed Talafar after three years, thousands more people became displaced, resorting to camps. Abu Zahra, with his 9-member family is one of them at Haj Ali site. Watch here
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Incredible Journeys of Hope: The Story of Stranded Migrants in Kigoma
Seated on a boulder, under a tree, near the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma - a lake port city in Tanzania - Samaya Yusuf looks around her with suspicion as she narrates her story to the IOM, the UN Migration Agency team.
Tanja's Table
Tanja Dedovic, Labour and Human Development Coordinator at IOM, the UN Migration Agency’s Regional Office in Vienna, recently created a cookbook centring on food as cultural exchange. The cookbook, The Migration of Culinary Traditions in the Region, is now available for free download.
Aligning Efforts to End Modern Slavery
While many think slavery was a phenomenon of the past, it is a scourge of humanity that unfortunately is still very much prevalent around the world today.
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Culture is food and food is culture. Food is ingrained in our myths, rituals and daily lives.
On the United States‒Mexico border, thousands have lost their lives, thousands are still missing, and families are caught in the excruciating space in between.
Images and footage coming from Texas were heartbreaking. Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc in the Lone Star State leaving thousands of homes abandoned, covered by several inches of water.