Practices by Country

UNODC held a Regional Workshop on the identification, protection and assistance of victims of trafficking in persons among refugees and displaced persons.

On 1 March 2011, the Secretary General of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanogu, called upon member states to assist the Tunisian government by providing transport means to return displaced people from Libya to their countries of origin.

During the 2011 Libyan crisis IOM, in coordination with the Egyptian authorities, United Nations and civil society partners, provided humanitarian assistance, including food, water, blankets and hygiene kits, to migrants stranded in the Salloum Camp.

The European Commission facilitated the repatriation of migrants who fled Libya into Tunisia during the Libyan crisis. The Commission launched a humanitarian air and sea bridge.

At the time of the the Israel-Lebanon conflict in 2006, the Egyptian government estimated the number of Egyptian nationals working and living in Lebanon at around 300,000. The Egyptian embassies in Beirut and Damascus established a hotline and a “crises-management group”.

During the Libyan crisis, Third Country Nationals (TNCs) leaving Libya and entering Egypt remained confined to the border crossing point of Salloum until their case had been processed. This was accomplished through the work of consular authorities in liaison with IOM support.

This project provided assistance to 841 migrants from Mali, Niger and Ghana were repatriated in the context of the emergency evacuation from Libya in 2011.

The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) was created in 1991 as a subsidiary organ of the UN Security Council with a mandate to process claims and pay compensation for losses and damage suffered as a direct result of Iraq’s unlawful invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

This report provides an overview of the first 7 months of IOM’s emergency response to the major migration crisis resulted from the conflict in Libya in 2011.