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# International Organisation for Migration

Last month
February 2024
Asylum-seeker support workers expected to act as interpreters without specialist training
Experts concerned that ‘cultural mediators’ being asked to provide “interpretation services” beyond their required skill set.
Cultural mediators were introduced to speed up the asylum application process
Advocates say the lack of clarity around role risks harming asylum seekers
UN body who trains them says mediators "not legally accountable" for applications
Last year
2023
Nearly 4,000 dead after Libya floods and thousands more missing
All time
One killed and three injured after Moroccan navy opens fire on speedboat carrying local migrants
Where in the world are Irish people emigrating to?
Ireland to assist emergency evacuation of civilians from Misrata
Photojournalist and Oscar nominee Tim Hetherington killed in Libya