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IOM to work with China to protect trafficking victims IOM is today hosting a four-day workshop in Beijing for senior Chinese counter-trafficking police and immigration officials to strengthen mechanisms designed to protect and assist victims of human trafficking. The training, which is being attended by over 30 central and provincial officials from the Ministries of […]
Canada offers financial support for police training to combat people smuggling in Indonesia IOM has launched the first of 38 awareness raising workshops for Indonesian police officers under its Canadian-funded Frontline Officers’ Awareness Training (FLOAT 2012) project to combat people smuggling in Indonesia. Some 50 provincial police officers attended the FLOAT National Leadership Awareness Workshop […]
Response to Heavy Rains in Haiti; International Organization for Migration provides shelter to affected Families IOM has delivered replacement tarps and new tents to families inundated by recent rains in Haiti and is continuing its efforts to minimize flooding in camps occupied by earthquake victims since 2010. The downpours caused mudslides and floods bringing untold […]
German Govt. Supports IOM’s efforts to reintegrate Chadian Migrants from Libya IOM’s efforts to provide social reintegration assistance to Chadians who have returned empty-handed from Libya has received new backing from the German Government. The Euro 1 million German funding will support returnees and host communities in areas with high levels of returnees by […]
IOM employs airlift programme to move vulnerable South Sudanese from Khartoum IOM today (21/3) began an airlift of a group of 2,200 elderly, disabled and other vulnerable South Sudanese, escorting family members and IOM medical staff from the Sudanese capital Khartoum to Wau, Juba and Aweil in South Sudan. The operation, which will consist of […]
IOM presents impact of past and present migration policies for Paraguay A newly released IOM Migration Profile for Paraguay defines 1870, the end of the War of the Triple Alliance between Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay against Paraguay, as a pivotal point for an immigration policy aimed at repopulating the land-locked South American nation. With an […]
IOM partners with Govt. of Niger and UNHCR to relocate over 500 Malian families IOM, in partnership with the Government of Niger and UNHCR, has relocated more than 500 vulnerable Malian families from insanitary and overcrowded makeshift settlements in and around the south-western border village of Sinegodar to a safe site away from the volatile […]
IOM helps 2,300 South Sudanese return by train: Welcomes South Sudan and Sudan’s move to protect citizens’ basic freedoms An IOM-organized train, which left the Sudanese capital Khartoum18 days ago, arrived in Wau in Western Bahr el Ghazal State in South Sudan on Sunday (18/3/12) carrying nearly 2,300 returnees. The train was the first to […]
IOM needs funds to evacuate stranded migrants from Yemen Yemen: (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) Amid paucity of funds, the International Organization for Migration has expressed its disability to continue with its project on evacuation of the stranded migrants from Yemen. This month, the organization will conduct the final air evacuation of 277 stranded Ethiopian migrants […]
Timely grant from US enables IOM to send aid for over 1000 displaced migrants in western Chad Western Chad: (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) After receiving aid from the US, the aid workers of the International Organization of Migration (IOM) has become capable of sending a road convoy carrying aid for over 1,000 displaced migrants, most […]
IOM’s Earthquake Response Creates Skills and Jobs to Drive the Recovery in Haiti Two years after the earthquake devastated Haiti, the International Organization for Migration is helping the Government of Haiti reduce the remaining population in tent cities, while laying the foundation for jobs-led economic growth to rebuild the country. Haiti has been witness […]
IOM Races to Provide Shelter Aid for Displaced Families in Southern Philippines Friday, December 30, 2011: IOM is racing to provide emergency shelter for thousands of families displaced by the deadly tropical storm that hit the southern Philippines on December 17th. Tropical storm Washi, known locally as Sendong, sent torrents of water, mud and logs […]
