Given the increased flow of migrants in transit through Honduras, IOM conducted a monitoring visit to identify needs and provide timely humanitarian response.

Donations of supplies and reinforcement of shelters for benefit of migrants.

The EU-IOM Knowledge Management Hub (KMH) was established in September 2017 under the European Union-funded Pilot Action on Voluntary Return and Sustainable, Community-Based Reintegration. It aims to strengthen learning across return and reintegration programmes, and support the development and harmonization of approaches, processes and tools on these topics. Among its overarching objectives it aims to showcase the importance of adopting an integrated approach to reintegration and support its implementation by highlighting its holistic and multifactorial nature. Through an audio-visual production activity run in eleven countries, materials aim to promote a more balanced narrative on return and reintegration by focusing on realistic and fact-based…

Training workshops with implementing partners on migration-related issues.

Beneficiaries receiving seed capital for their entrepreneurship.

People in shelters due to their migratory route or the effects of climate change in Honduras.

Operation End of the Migrant Protection Protocols program, through which asylum seekers in the United States had to wait in Mexico for the resolution of their cases, with instructions to return to US territory to attend the hearings.

Every year, scores of Ethiopian men, women, and children leave home in search of a better life. They travel to Somalia and Djibouti along the so-called Eastern Migration Route, cross the Gulf of Aden, and journey through conflict-torn Yemen to the Gulf, principally the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in search of work. Others head northwest to Sudan and onto conflict-torn Libya to try and cross the central Mediterranean, the deadliest sea-crossing in the world.

A collection of stories of migrants from around the world.

A collection of stories of people who have been internally displaced around the world.

A collection of stories of refugees who have been displaced around the world.

A compilation of images captured on Mexico's northern border with the United States during the process of finalizing Title 42 in the states of Baja California and Mexico, offering a visual view of events in this border region.

The main theme of this installation is the performative power of art. Campo de Sueños talks about dreams, about kicking a soccer ball. The dream and the search for its concretion are translated into concrete action. The first dream camp was commissioned by the MAAM (Museo dellÁktro e dellÁltrove. Di Metropoliz) in Rome in 2019, prior to an anti-racist tournament in the region. In 2021, the dream of the size of a stadium came true in Helsinki. The Estadio Centerario is the ideal and natural setting for this art installation. It represents the fulfillment of the greatest dreams of Uruguayans of all generations and now adds the possibility of hosting the 2030 World Cup. A Stadium of unparalleled symbolism. This installation reflects on the…

On Monday 15 May 2023, the Member States of the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Migration Agency, elected Ms. Amy E. Pope as its next Director General during the 6th Special Session of the IOM Council. Established in 1951, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration and is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society. IOM is part of the United Nations system, as a related organization. The Director General-elect Pope, who began her appointment as IOM’s Deputy Director General for Management and Reform in September 2021, was nominated by the United States of America. The incumbent Director…

IOM’s response to migrants in need of assistance in Yemen.

It is essential to disseminate that the immigration status of parents should not be an impediment to process the birth certificate and grant the right to identity to their children. An IOM team accompanied in August 2022 a session to issue birth certificates to children of migrant workers in the Soconusco region of southern Mexico, Mexico. Tthe story of a midwife who encourages families to obtain birth certificates for their daughters and sons in Tapachula, Chiapas.

Every year, thousands of refugees are given the opportunity to resettle to Canada and have a fresh start to their lives. In order to prepare them for this next chapter, refugees attend a series of pre-departure orientation sessions provided by IOM worldwide. The sessions help inform refugees of what to expect when travelling to Canada and give them all of the essential information they need to start the next chapter in their lives.

Representatives of the International Organization for Migration’s member states are meeting in Geneva for the 113th session of the council. The Council is the highest authority of the IOM. It meets in regular sessions once a year and in special sessions at the request of: one-third of its members, the Director General or the Chairman of the Council in urgent circumstances. The main functions of the Council, as set out in the provisions of the IOM Constitution, are to: determine, examine and review the policies, programmes and activities of the Organization; review the reports, approve and direct the activities of any subsidiary body; review the reports, approve and direct the activities of the Director General; review and approve the programme,…

The Second International Dialogue on Migration Session of 2022 took place on October 24-25th in Geneva, Switzerland. The session takes place in the lead-up to the 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), taking place in Egypt, and building on the successful outcomes of the first International Migration Review Forum, to strengthen action to address the complex interlinkages between climate change, food security and human mobility. IOM understands these links through the wide lens of human security and is committed to putting vulnerable people at the center of its responses. Food security, water security, environmental security and livelihood security are all affected by climate change…