IOM / International Organization for Migration [to 24 October 2015]

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IOM / International Organization for Migration [to 24 October 2015]
http://www.iom.int/press-room/press-releases

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Selected Press Releases
High Level Geneva Conference on Migrants and Cities
10/23/15
Switzerland – IOM will bring together ministers, mayors and high level officials in Geneva next week to debate for the first time in a global policy forum Migrants and Cities.

Greece Records Highest Weekly Migration Inflows in 2015 So Far
10/23/15
Greece – This week IOM Greece recorded the highest migration inflows since the beginning of 2015, despite deteriorating weather conditions.

IOM, Partners Deliver Aid to Besieged Areas in Rural Damascus, Aleppo and Idleb
10/23/15
Syria – IOM took part in an inter-agency operation that delivered much needed humanitarian supplies to 30,000 people in Idleb and Rural Damascus governorates.

IOM El Salvador Launches Online Course on Protection of Vulnerable Young Migrants
10/23/15
El Salvador – IOM El Salvador has launched an introductory online course: Protection of Migrant Vulnerable Populations: Unaccompanied and/or Separated Children and Adolescents to promote the fundamental rights of migrant children and adolescents in Central America.

IOM Mobilizes to Aid Over 100,000 Filipinos Displaced by Typhoon Koppu
10/20/15
Philippines – IOM is gearing up to help over 100,000 people on the Philippine island of Luzon displaced by Typhoon Koppu (locally known as Lando).

ACP-EU Migration Programme Expands to Include Trafficking, Smuggling
10/20/15
Belgium – IOM announced today that the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) –European Union (EU) Migration Action programme has enlarged the scope of its activities to include human trafficking and smuggling.

IOM Responds to Growing Human Trafficking Threat in Ukraine
10/20/15
Ukraine – IOM has marked the 9th European Union (EU) Anti-Trafficking Day (18/10) by warning of the growing vulnerability of Ukrainians to human trafficking, as an increasing number admit to working abroad unofficially or say that they are willing to accept risky job offers.