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UN migration agency to cut 20% of HQ staff amid US aid slashes: Sources
The New Indian Express Tadepalligudem
|March 15, 2025
THE UN migration agency, which has been hit hard by US foreign aid cuts, has launched more mass layoffs, impacting around a fifth of staff at its Geneva headquarters, employees said Friday.
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Fresh cuts at the International Organization for Migration are expected to impact at least 20 percent of the more than 1,000 current headquarters staff, according to several sources familiar with the situation. "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 pi
This story is from the March 15, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Tadepalligudem.
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