About International Organization for Migration (IOM):
- Established in 1951, IOM is the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.
- IOM is part of the United Nations system as a related organization. It is the coordinator for the Secretary of the UN Network on Migration.
- IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.
- The IOM is the UN agency in charge of labour mobility and migration in general.
- Its labour mobility and human development division is responsible for providing policy and operational guidance in matters related to labour mobility, diaspora communities and their links to development and migrant integration.
- It supported the negotiation and adoption of the UN Global Compact for Migration, a UN global agreement for international migration adopted in 2018.
- Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
- Member States: IOM has 175 member states and 8 observer states.
- Publications:World Migration Report, Migration Health Annual Report.
