Geneva/Kabul, 6 May 2025 – Amid a sharp increase in the number of Afghan nationals returning from Pakistan – including 109,891 between 3 April and 3 May – the International Organization for Migration ...

Statement delivered by IOM Director General Amy Pope at the United Nations Media Briefing in Geneva I have just returned from Damascus, where the impact of nearly 14 years of conflict is evident ...

Port Sudan, 29 October – Good morning, I am glad to be able to speak with you this morning live from Port Sudan. I arrived here yesterday on a four-day visit, into a deteriorating security situation ...

Geneva/ Damascus, 26 May 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed the recent decisions by the European Union and the United States to lift a significant portion of ...

Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 150,982 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 1 November, with about 75 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided ...

Statement by UN Migration Director General William Lacy Swing on World Food Day, 16 October 2017 For the first time in history, more people live in cities than rural areas. Every year millions of ...

The XXI Century is the century of human mobility and migration. We can no longer think about our economies, societies or cultures without thinking about human mobility. According to all the available ...

Mutare – The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), through the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, is developing its National Migration Policy with support from the International Organization for ...

Madrid – As more migrants arrive in the Canary Islands, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has provided shelter, protection services, medical, legal and other types of assistance to ...

IOM Director General Amy Pope's Keynote Address at the Second Session of the International Dialogue on Migration 2024 Geneva – Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, it is a real pleasure to be here ...

In its role as Coordinator of the UN Network on Migration, IOM is well-placed to guide the UN system in supporting governments to strengthen international migration governance capacities, in ...

International remittances surged by 650 per cent, from USD 128 billion to USD 831 billion between 2000 and 2022. Migrant remittances surpass foreign direct investment in boosting the GDP of developing ...