Next Director General Of International Organization For Migration:
Amy Pope elected next Director General of the International Organization for Migration
- International Organization For Migration: was 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 was granted Permanent Observer status to the UN General Assembly in 1992, and a cooperation agreement between IOM and the UN was signed in 1996.
- With 175 member states, a further 8 states holding observer status and offices in over 100 countries, IOM is dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration for the benefit of all.
- It does so by providing services and advice to governments and migrants.
- India is a member of IOM.
- IOM works in the four broad areas of migration management:
- Migration and development
- Facilitating migration
- Regulating migration
- Forced migration.
