This photograph shows a flag at the headquarters of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva on March 13, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
March 14, 2025
UN migration agency laying off 20% of HQ staff amid US aid cuts — sources
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United Nations (UN) migration agency, which has been hit hard by United States (US) foreign aid cuts, has launched more mass layoffs, impacting around a fifth of staff at its Geneva headquarters, employees said Friday.
Fresh cuts at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) are expected to impact at least 20 per cent of the more than 1,000 current headquarters staff, according to several sources familiar with the situation.
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“This would mean over 200 staff. I believe it’s more,” a current IOM employee told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The news comes just weeks after the United Nations agency, which at the end of last year employed around 22,000 people, sent out pink slips to some 3,000 staff.
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They were among around 5,000 who had been working with the US refugee resettlement programme, which has been halted by President Donald Trump’s administration.
“I can’t really describe the mood,” the employee said.
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Earlier this week, staff in IOM’s media department were “lined up (for) 15-minute individual meetings to announce they were sacked”, which “turned into less than five-minute meetings”, the employee said.
People were “coming out crying”.
A former employee, who also asked not to be named, said “dozens of staff” received notice on Thursday, “and more to follow”, adding that “entire functional units have been cut”.
