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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is an intergovernmental organization established in 1951. IOM is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and societies.

IOM currently has 146 Members and 98 observers including 13 States and 85 globally and regionally active International Organizations and NGOs. IOM is present in more than 440 field locations and has approximately 7,300 staff working on more than 2,900 projects. In 2010 IOM's expenditures exceeded USD 1.4 billion.

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IOM Vienna Quarterly Newsletter, January 2012

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IOM Vienna has published the sixth issue of its quarterly newsletter.

In this issue you will find following topics:

 CulTrain - Cultural Orientation Trainings for Unaccompanied Minor Refugees

International Workshop for Return Counsellors

Workshop in Vienna: pratical cooperation to fight human trafficking

National EMN Conference "Linking Research and Policy in the field of Migration, Asylum and Integration"

EMN Study "Temporary and Circular Migration: empirical evidence, current policy practice and future options"

World Migration Report 2011 - Communicating Effectively about Migration

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Ensuring Migrants' Health Essential to Addressing Health Inequities, says IOM

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Press release

GENEVA- 18 December 2011 – The lack of adequate access to health services for migrants in most countries is a worrying public health omission requiring urgent redress in a world increasingly dependent on human mobility, says IOM as it marks International Migrants Day today.

With more than one billion migrants worldwide, 214 million of them international migrants, every country in the world is either dependent on the labour, skills and knowledge migrants bring or on the estimated US$ 404 billion they remitted in 2011.

Yet one of the biggest challenges facing global health today is migration. Migrants are among the most affected by the lack of access to health services. Linguistic or cultural differences, a lack of affordable health services or health insurance, administrative hurdles, legal status and the fact that migrants often work extremely long and unsocial hours, are among their key barriers.

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IOM's 60th Anniversary

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Keynote-speakers-Best-700x467In 2011, IOM celebrates 60 years of assisting migrants and providing support to Member States in migration-related issues. To commemorate this occasion in Austria, an anniversary celebration was held at the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior on 29 September in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs.

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