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International Organization for Migration

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Summary

International Organization for Migration is a specialized agency of the United Nations[1]. It draws 1,586 Wikipedia views per month (specialized agency of the united nations category, ranking #12 of 16).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: emigration and immigration[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4], Czech Republic[5]
  • Instance of: publishing house[6], intergovernmental organization[7], government agency[8]
  • Official language: English[9], French[10], Spanish[11]
  • Headquarters location: Geneva[12], Prague[13]
  • Location: International Organisation for Migration headquarters[14]
  • Commons category: International Organization for Migration[15]
  • Archives at: International Institute of Social History[16]
  • Inception: 1951[17]
  • Official website: https://www.iom.int/es[18], https://www.iom.int/fr[19], https://www.iom.int/[20], https://www.iom.cz/[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:International Organization for Migration[22]
  • Replaces: Intergovernmental committee for European migration[23]
  • Official name: International Organization for Migration[24], Organización Internacional para las Migraciones[25], Organisation internationale pour les migrations[26], Mezinárodní organizace pro migraci[27]
  • Legal form: International organisation[28]
  • Short name: IOM[29], OIM[30], МОМ[31]
  • Partnership with: Asian–African Legal Consultative Organization[32], United Nations[33]
  • General secretary: Amy E. Pope[34]

Why It Matters

International Organization for Migration has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Related Entities

CARE International International Institute of Social History Italy Mexico Netherlands Oman publishing house Switzerland The Hague Institute for Global Justice United Nations United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia United Nations Institute for Training and Research Zambia

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . GRID Release 2017-11-09. wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . GRID Release 2017-11-09. wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. Retrieved . hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . GRID Release 2017-11-09. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . GRID Release 2017-11-09. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . search.gleif.org. Retrieved . search.gleif.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . aalco.int. aalco.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . iom.int. Retrieved . iom.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 52
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en',
    P14900 → cz-004876
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14900: cz-004876, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/327258988|International Organization for Migration (#327258988)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/c"
  2. 15d ago · C960657 · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Lex id → IOM
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Lex id: IOM"
  3. 5w ago · Wiki6518 · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Field of work → emigration and immigration
    Bnmm authority id → 000078876
    Canadiana name authority id → ncf12079979
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Field of work: emigration and immigration, Added from LC Name Authority File no90018047"
  4. 6w ago · GregMcCollum · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Banq authority id → 0001079683
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Banq authority id: 0001079683, add P3280 claim: 0001079683"
  5. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3zaFVF
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 15w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14536 → 466923
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14536: 466923, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782462304762"
  7. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0206553-Intergovernmental-Committee-for-Migration, 0206451-Mezinarodni-organizace-pro-migraci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0206451-Mezinarodni-organizace-pro-migraci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259649|batch #259649]]"
  8. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0206553-Intergovernmental-Committee-for-Migration, 0206451-Mezinarodni-organizace-pro-migraci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0206553-Intergovernmental-Committee-for-Migration, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259599|batch #259599]]"
  9. 21w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1951-00-00T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Inception: 1951"
  10. 22w ago · Bosterm · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location → International Organisation for Migration headquarters
    Partnership with → Asian–African Legal Consultative Organization, United Nations
    Replaces → —
    Official language → —
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q43894841 */"
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