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 ...

Geneva/ Gaza, 27 May 2025 – The Global Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster is deeply alarmed by the escalating humanitarian crisis resulting from the renewed Israeli military ...

Geneva/N'Djamena – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched its global five-year strategic plan aimed at delivering on the promise of safe, orderly, and regular migration while ...

Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is profoundly shocked and alarmed by discovery of the bodies of 27 Ethiopian migrants, found abandoned in Chongwe Ngwerere, Zambia. This ...

Obock, 2 October –– At least 45 people have tragically died and 111 still missing after they were forced off their vessel in open sea by smugglers. The incident that occurred off the coast of Obock, ...

Geneva/ Nairobi, 8 May – Weeks of heavy rainfall and flooding in the East Africa region has triggered widespread displacement with hundreds of thousands displaced across Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, ...

Geneva/ Port-au-Prince, 18 June – Nearly 580,000 people are internally displaced across Haiti, a 60 per cent increase since March, according to the latest data from the International Organization for ...

Addis Ababa – There are now more than 1.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ethiopia, a new report on internal displacement released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) ...

Berlin/ Geneva, 21 March 2025 - At least 8,938 people died on migration routes worldwide in 2024, making it the deadliest year on record, according to new data collected by the International ...

Beirut, 2 October – As hostilities in Lebanon intensifies, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched a Flash Appeal to raise USD 32.46 million to assist 400,000 people affected ...

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, ...

Updated on 30 September 2022 Berlin/San Jose – More than 1,238 lives have been lost during migration in the Americas in 2021, among them at least 51 children, according to new data published by the ...