Mandated to help European governments to identify resettlement countries for the estimated 11 million people uprooted by the war, IOM arranged transport for nearly a million migrants during the 1950s. The Constitution of the International Organization for Migration was concluded on 19 October 1953 in Venice as the Constitution of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration.
It was initially established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) to help resettle people displaced by World War II.
Cross-cutting activities include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants’ rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration. In addition, IOM has often organized elections for refugees out of their home country, as was the case in the 2004 Afghan elections and the 2005 Iraqi elections. ==History== IOM was born in 1951 out of the chaos and displacement of Western Europe following the Second World War.
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.855073. ==References== ==External links== Migration-related organizations United Nations General Assembly observers Organisations based in Geneva United Nations organizations based in Geneva Intergovernmental organizations established by treaty Organizations established in 1951
Mandated to help European governments to identify resettlement countries for the estimated 11 million people uprooted by the war, IOM arranged transport for nearly a million migrants during the 1950s. The Constitution of the International Organization for Migration was concluded on 19 October 1953 in Venice as the Constitution of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration.
Cross-cutting activities include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants’ rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration. In addition, IOM has often organized elections for refugees out of their home country, as was the case in the 2004 Afghan elections and the 2005 Iraqi elections. ==History== IOM was born in 1951 out of the chaos and displacement of Western Europe following the Second World War.
Cross-cutting activities include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants’ rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration. In addition, IOM has often organized elections for refugees out of their home country, as was the case in the 2004 Afghan elections and the 2005 Iraqi elections. ==History== IOM was born in 1951 out of the chaos and displacement of Western Europe following the Second World War.
In September 2016, IOM became a related organization of the United Nations.
IOM supported the creation of the Global Compact for Migration, the first-ever intergovernmental agreement on international migration which was adopted in Marrakech, Morocco in December 2018.
As of 2021, the International Organization for Migration has 173 member states and nine observer states. IOM is the principal intergovernmental organization working in the field of migration.
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