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 ...

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/ Berlin, 6 March – At least 8,565 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2023, making it the deadliest year on record, according to data collected by IOM’s Missing Migrants Project. The ...

Geneva – The number of migrants irregularly crossing into Panama after embarking on the perilous Darien Gap route reached a record in 2022, nearly doubling the figures of the previous year. According ...

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 ...

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/Kabul, 30 June 2025 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is raising the alarm over an unprecedented surge in undocumented Afghan migrants returning from Iran, with over 256,000 ...

Tripoli, 10 February 2025 - The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has expressed shock and concern at the discovery of two mass graves in Libya containing the bodies of dozens of migrants, ...

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/Sana’a – Half-way through 2023, more than 77,000 migrants have crossed the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, surpassing last year’s figures and fast approaching pre-pandemic levels. As migrant arrivals ...

Geneva/Port-au-Prince, 15 October 2025 – The number of people displaced by violence and instability in Haiti has reached an unprecedented level, with more than 1.4 million people forced from their ...

As we look ahead to 2025, the increasing convergence of conflicts, climate-related disasters and economic challenges are among the many factors that will compel millions of people to move – in search ...