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Themes

Assisted Voluntary Return
Counter-Trafficking
Migration and Development
Integration
Migration Health
Movements
Technical Cooperation
Movement
Transporting persons in need of assistance is key to IOM's overall mission of meeting global migration challenges. IOM organizes the safe movement of people for temporary and permanent resettlement or return to their countries of origin. IOM is also able to provide pre-departure medical screening. Activities include the movement of:

  • refugees resettling in new countries
  • returning qualified nationals
  • scholarship holders
  • war victims requiring medical evacuation

Specific advantages of IOM services are:

  • professional services in assisting refugees and migrants to complete applications for emigration
  • considerably discounted airfares
  • increased luggage allowance
  • departure, transit, and arrival assistance

Current IOM Helsinki projects in the area of Movement: