Frontex assists in first voluntary returns on chartered flights
This week, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, supported France with two charter flights for migrants who wanted
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Migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location.
Two Sudanese migrants were killed and three others injured in a shooting at the Khums disembarkation point last night in Libya, after being intercepted at sea and returned to shore by the coast guard.
Staff from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Khums, reported that local authorities started shooting when the migrants attempted
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Spanish National Police dismantles an organization dedicated to the trafficking of Dominican migrants
The international organization provided migrants with airline tickets to travel from the Dominican Republic to African countries with a previous
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Two convicted in France as part of cross-Channel people smuggling investigation
Two people, one of whom is British, have been convicted and jailed in France as a result of close working
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CBP Inter-agency Efforts Lead to 43 Migrant Apprehensions
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents, along with their partners, worked two early morning migrant
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, IOM Facilitates Return of 84 Migrants from Algeria to Mali
84 Malian nationals – 73 men, 7 women, 2 boys and 2 girls – made it home from Algeria, thanks to the International Organization
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Mauritania: A Milestone Reform of Laws Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed this month the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, whose National Assembly
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Situation at EU external borders – Arrivals down in first half of 2020
In the first half of this year, the number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders fell by nearly
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Hungarian National Police Arrest 18 Irregular Migrants in 24 hours
In 3 separate incidents, the Hungarian National Police arrested 18 irregular migrants entering the country illegally. As part of a
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Charter flights remove New Zealand criminals from Australia
A total of 31 New Zealand citizens have been removed from Australia on two charter flights, after their visas were
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Large-scale document forgery case cracked in Germany and Greece
The German Federal Police in Halle (Bundespolizei Halle) and the Hellenic Police (Hellenic Police, Ελληνική Αστυνομία) supported by Europol carried
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Frontex launches its second operation outside the EU
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is launching an operation in Montenegro, its second outside the European Union.
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IOM Releases Results of Largest Survey on Drivers of Migration in Bangladesh
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in coordination with the Government of Bangladesh earlier this month released the report, Bangladesh:
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Visa liberalisation: EU reports on fulfilment of requirements by Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine
The European Commission on 10 July released its assessment of the fulfilment of the visa liberalisation requirements by Georgia, Moldova
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BOMCA shares EU’s best practices in providing coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the area of border management
The joint webinar series (online seminars) is organized by the EU-BOMCA Programme, in collaboration with OSCE, GIZ, and US INL
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ICMPD Co-Host Virtual Expert Meeting on European Border Management
State Secretariat for Migration of Switzerland and International Centre for Migration Policy Development, organised an expert meeting for Member States
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EU / OSCE focus on enhancing migration co-operation during pandemic
Meeting virtually with officials of the European Union, members of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on Migration have
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UNODC and GIZ to continue countering trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants in the Horn of Africa
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) recently signed a funding
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