A World on the Move /

MIGRANTS IOM's history tracks the man-made disas- Very simply by continuing the philosophy ters of the past 65 years—Hungary 1956; EQUALLY that made us 65 years ago: the conviction Czechoslovakia 1968; Chile 1973; the Viet that all men and women are equal members Nam Boat People 1975; Kuwait 1990, Kosovo* of the same human family for which free- and Timor 1999; the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [...] IOM THROUGH THE YEARS 11 IOM TIMELINE HUNGARIAN UPRISING POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION Out of the human drama and tragedy of World War Two and the urgent need to move vulnerable popula- tions, the Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe (PICMME) is born in 1951. [...] It soon becomes the Intergovernmental As the Hungarian Uprising against the Government and its Soviet-imposed Committee for European Migration (ICEM), the Intergov- policies engulfs the country, hundreds of thousands of Hungarians flee to ernmental Committee for Migration (ICM) and eventually neighbouring Austria and Yugoslavia. [...] TSUNAMI IN INDIAN OCEAN When the Asian tsunami struck Aceh on Wars fuelled by the illegal sale of "blood 26 December 2004, leaving over 200,000 diamonds" in Liberia and Sierra Leone people dead or missing, IOM was the through the 1990s, cause hundreds of thou- only international agency working in the sands to seek refuge in Guinea. [...] The SDGs recognize the nexus between migration and development and aim to ensure safe, orderly and regular migration involving full respect A KEY for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants.