International Organization For Migration

• ‘Sharp increases:’ 29 million girls, women victims of modern slavery, UN report says

  Grace Forrest, co-founder of the Walk Free anti-slavery organization, said Friday that means one in every 130 women and girls is living in modern slavery today, more than the population of Australia.

  World

  Oct 10, 2020
  
• Over 1,000 migrants have drowned attempting to cross Mediterranean this year, 200 in 3 days

  More than 1,000 people have drowned this year attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, while 200 hundred of those have died in the past three days, according to the International Organization for Migration.

  Politics

  Jul 4, 2018
  
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• Trump’s pick for UN migration job squarely rejected by international organization

  Ken Isaacs, vice president of U.S. evangelical charity Samaritan's Purse, came last in the race to lead the International Organization for Migration.

  World

  Jun 29, 2018
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• Migrant deaths rose sharply in 2016 thanks to dangerous sea crossings: UN

  Migrant deaths rose sharply last year, particularly in the Mediterranean as smugglers made ever-riskier attempts to ferry asylum-seekers and refugees on increasingly unseaworthy vessels.

  World

  Mar 17, 2017
• Over 100 migrants rescued off Libyan coast

  More than 100 migrants were rescued on Monday after drifting for hours in the central Mediterranean when their rubber boat's engine failed.

  World

  Jan 3, 2017
• Record 5,000 migrants believed to have drowned trying to cross Mediterranean Sea in 2016, agencies say

  Two overcrowded inflatable dinghies capsized in the Strait of Sicily after leaving Libya for Italy, the International Organization for Migration and the U.N. refugee agency said.

  World

  Dec 23, 2016
• Nearly 340 migrants dead or missing in multiple Mediterranean shipwrecks, IOM says

  Flavio Di Giacomo, Italy spokesman for the International Organization for Migration, says that brings to over 4,500 the number of migrants who have died or disappeared so far this year making the risky sea voyage, the deadliest year on record.

  World

  Nov 17, 2016
• Refugee deaths so far in 2016 three times higher than first weeks of last year

  There are ominous signs 2016 will be another tragic year for refugees and migrants trying to reach Europe by sea.

  Canada

  Jan 29, 2016
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• How the refugee crisis evolved in 2015

  2015 saw the greatest movement of people fleeing their homes because of war and conflict, since the end of the Second World War.

  World

  Dec 29, 2015
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• More than 1 million migrants crossed into Europe this year: report

  More than 1 million people driven out of their countries by war, poverty and persecution entered Europe in this record-breaking year, migration experts said Tuesday, a symbolic milestone capping a mass movement of people that has challenged the concept of European unity.

  World

  Dec 22, 2015