Agreement signed with the International Organization for Migration

UAB Rector Margarita Arboix and María Jesús Herrera, Head of the Mission for the International Organization for Migration in Spain, signed on 4 June a collaboration agreement on training, awareness-raising, academic programmes and research conducted with the aim of expanding on the knowledge of migrant populations.

05/06/2019

The agreement states that the UAB and the IOM will be working in close collaboration and will consult each other in issues that are of interest to both parties. Therefore, they will be collaborating on training, awareness-raising, academic programmes and research, as well as the organisation of workshops, seminars and other initiatives which aim to improve the knowledge people have of migrant populations.

An Organisation in Favour of the Right to Freedom and the Free Movement of Persons
The International Organization for Migration is an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1951 working on migration-related issues. With headquarters in Geneva, it also has local branches in over 100 countries. It became an associated organisation of the United Nations in 2016 and currently includes 165 member states, with 8 observer states, and represents a total of 76 intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. The IOM has a very flexible structure and contains more than 440 offices in 150 countries.

The IOM is the main organisation in migration, and works to help guarantee an orderly and humane management of the migration process, promote international collaboration in the matter, help find practical solutions to migration-related problems and provide humanitarian aid to thoes needing it, whether refugees, displaced persons or any other uprooted individual. The Constitution of the IOM explicitly recognises the connection between migration and economic, social and cultural development, as well as the freedom of movement of persons.