Topic - International Organization For Migration

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for migrants, including internally displaced persons, refugees, and migrant workers. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE-- Migrants from Syria and Libya in a wooden boat call for help as they are assisted by Spanish NGO Open Arms during a rescue operation inside Malta's SAR zone south of the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean sea, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Over 80 migrants are missing from a boat that capsized after leaving Libya, U.N. says

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FILE - Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan sail a wooden boat before being assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, in the Mediterranean sea, about 30 miles north of Libya, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra, File)

At least 42 migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libya, says U.N.

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Oumar Bella Diallo, a returnee, poses for a portrait at his workplace in Conakry, Guinea, Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Thousands of Africans returned home through an EU program. Many say they’ve been abandoned

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FILE - In this image made from video, Mozambican soldiers ride on an armored vehicle in a convoy driving to Mocimboa da Praia, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, Aug. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Marc Hoogsteyns, file)

Islamic State-linked fighters displace over 46,000 people in northern Mozambique, U.N. says

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Millions of people and hundreds of staff impacted by U.S. aid cuts, U.N. migration agency says

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A masked, armed gang member poses for a photo at the National Cemetery during the Fete Gede festival celebrating Day of the Dead to honor the Haitian Vodou spirits Baron Samedi and Gede in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

U.N. migration agency says gang violence in Haiti leads to tripling of internally displaced people

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People displaced by armed attacks receive food from a nongovernmental organization in Saint-Marc, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Over 6,000 people in Haiti leave their homes after gang attack killed dozens

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A group claiming to be from India sit in the shade of the border wall as they wait to be picked up by Border Patrol after crossing through the border fence in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that the Tucson Sector is the busiest area of the border since 2008 due to smugglers abruptly steering migrants from Africa, Asia and other places through some of the Arizona borderlands' most desolate and dangerous areas. (AP Photo/Matt York)

U.N. calls U.S.-Mexico border world’s deadliest; lax Biden rules lure migrants into danger

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Amy Pope listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, May 20, 2016. International Organization for Migration chief Antonio Vitorino of Portugal faces what is poised to be a tight race against his Biden administration-backed American deputy, Amy Pope, as the Geneva-based organization chooses a new director-general on Monday, May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Election at UN migration agency pits its European chief against his American deputy

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Police check a fishing boat with some 500 migrants in the southern Italian port of Crotone, early Saturday, March 11, 2023. The Italian coast guard was responding to three smugglers boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants “in danger” off Italy’s southern coast, officials said Friday. Three small coast guard boats were rescuing a boat with 500 migrants about 70 nautical miles off the Calabria region, which forms the toe of the Italian boot. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro)

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya

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FILE - A migrants makeshift camp is set up in Calais, northern France, on Nov. 27, 2021. The U.N. migration agency says the coronavirus pandemic has “radically altered” mobility around the world, projecting in a new report that the growth in the number of international migrants is likely to remain weaker as long as travel and other restrictions remain. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

UN migration agency: COVID has ‘radically altered’ mobility

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The Chief of Staff of the International Organization for Migration, Eugenio Ambrosi, talks to the media at a migrants camp in Lipa near Bihac, Western Bosnia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A senior U.N. migration official on Wednesday urged respect of international standards and an end to any abuse against migrants and refugees crossing borders while searching for a better future. Ambrosi called on governments to correct any wrongdoing affecting people fleeing war and poverty. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Senior UN migration official visits migrant camps in Bosnia

By DARKO BANDIC - Associated Press

Hundreds of migrants intercepted off the coast of Libya

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Migrants demand international probe into deadly Yemen fire

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UN urges Yemen’s rebels to allow access to injured migrants

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