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Geneva, Switzerland – Greater efforts are needed beyond Copenhagen to tackle the complex issue of environmental and climate-induced migration, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as it marks International Migrants Day today. Share/Save Haiti – IOM and its partners are now racing to deliver shelter materials to the cities of Petit-Goâve and Léogâne, now home to many former Port-au-Prince residents, before the start of the rainy season. Share/Save Haiti – The dull thud, thud noise of a US military helicopter echoes in the valley where the marooned Fraternité Notre Dame nestles, high-up the scrawny hills of Petionville, a once affluent neighbourhood of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Share/Save Geneva, Switzerland – Greater efforts are needed beyond Copenhagen to tackle the complex issue of environmental and climate-induced migration, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as it marks International Migrants Day today. Share/Save In a dirt field 20 minutes outside of Leogane’s city center, desperation surfaces in the form of fear, anger, thanks. All at once. Share/Save Switzerland – IOM has received new funding to continue to expand and maintain its Global Human Trafficking database until 2011 from the United States Government Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP). Share/Save Indonesia – IOM’s emergency response to the massive earthquake that struck West Sumatra on September 30 has been boosted with a EUR 924,000 contribution from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO). Share/Save Philippines – Share/Save Sudan – A group of ten international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in Sudan have received training from IOM on raising awareness of democratic processes in a bid to promote popular participation in Sudan’s forthcoming elections in April 2010. Share/Save Philippines – IOM, in partnership with the European Commission through its Humanitarian Aid Department (ECHO), is to provide emergency assistance to some 4,000 typhoon-affected families in the National Capital Region (NCR) of the Philippines. Share/Save |
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