Videos
From the Transit Centre to the Football Field: The Migrant Footballers of Agadez
Under IOM’s community stabilization project COSINN, the teams from the Nassara AC in Agadez get to play regularly with other teams from Agadez, but also with the migrants from the centre.
Behind the Scenes - Participatory video workshop in Brazil
The Global Migration Film Festival team organizes Participatory Video workshops with migrant communities around the world. It is an initiative to amplify voices, empower and foster social cohesion in migrants affected communities. In May 2018 we worked with indigenous Venezuelans living in a shelter in Boa Vista, north of Brazil. Through games and exercises, members of Warao and Eñepas ethnical groups learned how to use the video equipment and decided the theme and stories they would like to record. Their films will be coming soon to the GMFF.
Video Showing Hospital Employees Being Kicked Out goes Viral
New migration policy forces migrants out of jobs.
Four things you might not know about environmental migration
All over the globe, people are moving internally within countries, as well as across borders and internationally. Much of this migration is driven by climate change: climate change may directly force movement due to disaster displacement events such as floods and hurricanes. Climate change may also result in longer term effects, such as droughts, sea level rise, environmental degradation. When the environment is unable to sustain livelihoods, people move in search of new opportunities. Migration can be a solution to climate change adaptation.
A group of migrants tells of the hardships experienced on their way to Southern Africa
In February 2018, IOM, the UN Migration Agency assisted 53 Ethiopian migrants who had been stranded in Mozambique to return home through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration. The migrants suffered dehydration and minor injuries as they trekked for four months along the Southern migration route. They recount their story.
Meet Masfine, a returnee from Ethiopia
In February 2018, IOM, the UN Migration Agency assisted 53 Ethiopian migrants who had been stranded in Mozambique to return home through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration. The migrants suffered dehydration and minor injuries as they trekked for four months along the Southern migration route. They recount their story.
Meet Beyono, a returnee from Ethiopia
In February 2018, IOM, the UN Migration Agency assisted 53 Ethiopian migrants who had been stranded in Mozambique to return home through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration. The migrants suffered dehydration and minor injuries as they trekked for four months along the Southern migration route. They recount their story.
Latest figures about environmental migration
Climate change is causing major environmental changes across the globe, with often severe and irreversible impacts upon people’s lives. In such conditions, migration can be an adaptive solution, empowering people to find new solutions to living sustainable lives in new areas. In other situations, climate change drives forced displacement through event such as extreme storms, hurricanes, floods and droughts.
53 Migrants survived a gruesome journey searching for a better life in Southern Africa
In February 2018, IOM, the UN Migration Agency assisted 53 Ethiopian migrants who had been stranded in Mozambique to return home through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration. The migrants suffered dehydration and minor injuries as they trekked for four months along the Southern migration route. They recount their story.
A history of 100 migrants searching for a better life in Southern Africa
In February 2018, IOM, the UN Migration Agency assisted 53 Ethiopian migrants who had been stranded in Mozambique to return home through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration. The migrants suffered dehydration and minor injuries as they trekked for four months along the Southern migration route. They recount their story.
Why A Multipronged Approach is Necessary to Address Environmental Migration
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2018, Jorge Galindo sat down with Dina Ionesco to talk about the evolution of IOM's work on the nexus between migration, climate change and the environment over the years, and why it is important to include this nexus in the upcoming Global Compact for Migration.
Fanta, from Libya to Guinea
"My name is KANTE Fanta. I was in Libya with my children to cross the sea. I left with my kids." Fanta is back from Libya. Thanks to the project funded by the EU Trust fund. Like 377 other migrants since December 2017, she has followed a training in business creation and management.