Being a member of the IOM team requires the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity. As an international organization with a global mandate, IOM aims to maintain an equitable ...

Geneva/New York/Port Sudan, 23 October 2025 – Four United Nations agencies today called for urgent international attention on the crisis in Sudan, to address the immense suffering and growing dangers ...

Geneva/Tripoli, 12 November 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) mourns the loss of life in yet another tragic incident off the coast of Libya.

Greece - With 3,771 deaths, 2015 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees crossing the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe.

Geneva – Fifty million people were living in modern slavery in 2021, according to the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery Report. Of these people, 28 million were in forced labour and 22 million ...

Kinshasa, 31 January 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), is deeply concerned about the hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced over the last few days in Goma, North Kivu ...

Geneva/Lampedusa, 26 January 2026 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is deeply concerned by reports of multiple deadly shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean in recent days, which ...

Geneva/Kabul, 7 August 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is urgently calling for international support as Afghanistan faces one of the largest return movements in recent ...

New York - Member States of the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted a resolution approving the Agreement to make IOM a Related Organization of the UN.

Geneva/ Sana'a, 26 March 2025 – As Yemen enters its eleventh year of conflict, the country remains in the grip of relentless suffering.

Geneva, 18 March 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is implementing essential structural adjustments at its Geneva headquarters and globally to align with the unavoidable ...

Geneva/Berlin/San José – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) documented 686 deaths and disappearances of migrants on the US-Mexico border in 2022, making it the deadliest land route for ...