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TRQN project extended
The project Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals (TRQN) has been extended for another year until June 2012. TRQN engages higher skilled members of the diaspora in the reconstruction and development of their country of origin through temporary return assignments... Read more
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Returnees from Belarus no longer eligible for subsistence allowance and reintegration grant
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Kingdom Relations and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have decided that IOM returnees from Belarus are no longer entitled to a subsistence allowance (OSB) or reintegration grant from the Return and Reintegration Regulation (HRT)... Read more
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IOM Helps Haitians in the Dominican Republic Wanting to Return Home and Start Micro Enterprises
Press Briefing Notes
In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, approximately 200,000 displaced Haitians crossed into the Dominican Republic in search of medical assistance, job opportunities, family reunification and relief from the post-disaster condit... Read more -
ENSURING MIGRANTS HEALTH ESSENTIAL TO ADDRESSING HEALTH INEQUITIES, SAYS IOM
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY, 2011
GENEVA- 18 December 2011 – The lack of adequate access to health services for migrants in most countries is a worrying public health omission requiring urgent redress in a world increasingly dependent on human mobil... Read more -
Ministerial-Level IOM Council Marks Organization’s 60th Anniversary and Looks to the Future of Migration
Press briefing note 2-12-11.
About 50 government ministers, deputy prime ministers and deputy ministers will be among those attending IOM’s 100th Council next week to mark the Organization’s 60th anniversary and to look to the future of migration. Read more -
Last Group Of Ethiopian Migrants to Be Assisted By IOM This Year Heads Home From Tanzania
Press briefing note 2-12-2011
A final group of 150 Ethiopian migrants who have spent more than a year in Tanzanian prisons as irregular migrants and who wanted to go back home, has been assisted by IOM to return to Ethiopia. The group is part of 910 Ethiopian... Read more -
IOM Employs Trains, River Barges and Air Transport To Speed Up Transport Assistance to Southern Sudanese in the North -
IOM is scaling up its programme to assist South Sudanese move from the north, using river barges, trains and planes to reduce the suffering of thousands of Southern Sudanese who have been stranded for many months awaiting transport assistance to the South.
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Ten Thousand Displaced Families in Haiti Receive New Transitional Shelters
Press briefing not 15-11-11
IOM’s shelter programme has reached the significant landmark of providing accommodation for 10,000 earthquake-affected families made homeless by the January 2010 earthquake.
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Funding to Help Most Vulnerable of Turkey’s Earthquake Victims Survive the Winter Months
Thousands of vulnerable earthquake victims in Turkey will be provided essential humanitarian assistance and psycho-social support by IOM and partners through new funding from the UN.
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Large Convoy of African Migrants Arrives in Chad from Southern Libya as IOM Prepares to Help Many More
Press Briefing note 20-10-2011
More than 1,220 Sub-Saharan Africans evacuated from the southern Libyan city of Sebha just over two weeks ago have now safely arrived in Chad after a long and arduous journey south.
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IOM supports thousands of IDPs and Ethiopian migrants in the Puntland State of Somalia
Press briefing note 7-10-11
In August 2011, nearly 500 Ethiopian migrants were registered in Bossaso, one of the largest ports in the Puntland State of Somalia. Thousands of displaced persons from drought-affected South-Central Somalia also reside in makeshift... Read more -
IOM Taps UN Central Emergency Response Fund to Help 6,000 More Homeless Families in Flood-hit Sindh
Press briefing note 4-10-11
IOM Pakistan is racing to procure and distribute 6,000 more emergency shelter and non-food relief item kits for flood-displaced families in Sindh, following a USD 1.5 million donation from the UN Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF... Read more -
African Migrants Stranded in Sebha Begin Long Journey Home
Press briefing note 3-10-11
More than 1,200 African migrants who have been seeking refuge at an IOM transit centre in the southern Libyan city of Sebha are being evacuated to Chad, ending weeks of uncertainty and fear over their future.
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Thousands of Displaced Facing Evictions From Camps In Cote d’Ivoire in Need of Shelter
Press briefing note 30-9-11
Several thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in western and south-east Cote d’Ivoire living in very poor conditions at displacement sites are in urgent need of adequate shelter.
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Insecurity, Poor Roads and Funding Main Challenges to Providing Medical Assistance to Returnees and Displaced in South Sudan
Press briefing note 4-10-11
IOM medical teams in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State (WES) are braving insecurity to provide badly needed medical services to groups of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who have little or no access to health care fac... Read more -
IOM Appeals for Funds to Assist Sudanese Fleeing Violence
Press briefing note 30-09-11
IOM is asking the donor community to provide USD 1.1 million to facilitate the continued relocation assistance which the Organization is providing to thousands of Sudanese displaced by the fighting in the Blue Nile region of Sudan... Read more -
IOM Launches Community Livelihood Support in Northern Kenya
Press briefing note 4-10-11
On 1 October 2011, IOM carried out the first ever de-stocking exercise for the host community in Kulan, Northern Kenya.
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IOM Empties Aid Stockpiles, Appeals for Funds for Pakistan Flood Victims
Press Briefing Note 20-9-2011
IOM yesterday dispatched 17,000 shelter and non-food item (NFI) relief kits to help families displaced by flooding following torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh.
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Thousands of Ethiopian Migrants Stranded in Yemen Desperate to Go Home
Press Briefing Note 20-9-2011
More than 3,000 Ethiopian migrants who desperately want to return home have been stranded on the Yemeni-Saudi border in extremely difficult conditions for several months, with IOM unable to evacuate the vast majority of them due t... Read more -
IOM, Pakistan Navy Deliver Shelter Kits to Stranded Badin Villagers as Aid Stocks Dwindle
Press briefing note 23-9-2011
An IOM team is today working with the Pakistan navy to deliver 1,000 shelter and non-food item relief kits to families stranded in villages in the western Tando Bago area of Sindh’s flood-stricken Badin district.
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IOM Rushes Contingency Shelter Stocks from Punjab to Flood-Hit Sindh
Press Brief 27-9-11
IOM has diverted 7,000 emergency shelter and non-food relief item (NFI) kits from a contingency stockpile in Punjab to meet huge demand for emergency shelter in Pakistan’s flood-stricken Sindh province. Read more -
IOM Dispatches 17,000 Shelter Kits As New Floods Engulf Southern Pakistan
Press Briefing Note 13-9-11
IOM yesterday dispatched 17,000 shelter and non-food item (NFI) relief kits to help families displaced by flooding following torrential monsoon rains in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh.
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IOM Provides Emergency Relocation to Fleeing Sudanese in Western Ethiopia
Press briefing note 6-9-11
IOM has deployed staff in Western Ethiopia to provide emergency relocation assistance to an estimated 20,000 Sudanese who have fled recent fighting between government forces and armed groups allied to the Sudan People’s Liberat... Read more -
IOM Calls on Warring Parties to Protect Migrants Stranded at its Centre in Sebha
Press briefing note 06-09-11
IOM is making an urgent appeal to warring parties in southern Libya to respect international humanitarian law and ensure no harm comes to the more than 1,200 migrants seeking refuge at an IOM-established migrant transit centre in t... Read more -
Fears Grow over Rising Numbers of Stranded Migrants Without Food and Water in Sebha as Fighting Intensifies
Press Briefing Note 13-09-11
An estimated 3,000 migrants are now thought to be seeking refuge at an IOM transit centre as fighting around the Libyan city of Sebha continues.
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