Lack of health services for migrants a concerning issue GENEVA- 18 December 2011 – The lack of adequate access to health services for migrants in most countries is a worrying public health omission requiring urgent redress in a world increasingly dependent on human mobility, says IOM as it marks International Migrants Day today. With more […]
Dec 14 2011 | Posted in
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IOM launches the World Migration Report 2011 Geneva, Switzerland – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched the 2011 World Migration Report on Tuesday, 6 December 2011. Following its tradition of having migrants, humanitarian workers and volunteers around the world on board, the organization had an open invitation for all of them to watch […]
Dec 7 2011 | Posted in
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Last Group of Ethiopian Migrants to Be Assisted By IOM This Year Heads Home from Tanzania A final group of 150 Ethiopian migrants who have spent more than a year in Tanzanian prisons as irregular migrants and who wanted to go back home, has been assisted by IOM to return to Ethiopia. The group is […]
Dec 2 2011 | Posted in
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Migrants’ voices must be heard in today’s all too often biased, polarized and negative debate on migration, says IOM’s World Migration Report 2011: Communicating Effectively about Migration. The report states that although we live in an era of the greatest human mobility in recorded history, with greater acknowledgement that migration is one of the defining […]
Nov 29 2011 | Posted in
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